DNase I-hypersensitive exons colocalize with promoters and distal regulatory elements

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 852-859

  Mercer, Tim R ^a   Edwards, Stacey L ^a,b   Clark, Michael B ^a   Neph, Shane J ^c   Wang, Hao ^c   Stergachis, Andrew B ^c   John, Sam ^c   Sandstrom, Richard ^c   Li, Guoliang ^d   Sandhu, Kuljeet S ^d   Ruan, Yijun ^d   Nielsen, Lars K ^a   Mattick, John S ^e,f   Stamatoyannopoulos, John A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAL1;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INTRON; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84881024808     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2677     Document Type: Article

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