Assessing the genome-wide effect of promoter region tandem repeat natural variation on gene expression

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1643-1649

  Elmore, Martha H ^a   Gibbons, John G ^a   Rokas, Antonis ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy number; Genotype2; Molecular; Phenotype; Phenotype map; Polymorphism; RNA Seq; Tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE MAP; MOLECULAR PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; RNA-SEQ; TANDEM REPEAT; TANDEM REPEAT COPY NUMBER POLYMORPHISM;

GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE MAP; MOLECULAR PHENOTYPE; RNA-SEQ; TANDEM REPEAT COPY NUMBER POLYMORPHISM;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84883195736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.004663     Document Type: Article

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