Massively parallel decoding of mammalian regulatory sequences supports a flexible organizational model

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1021-1028

  Smith, Robin P ^a   Taher, Leila ^b,c   Patwardhan, Rupali P ^d   Kim, Mee J ^a   Inoue, Fumitaka ^a   Shendure, Jay ^d   Ovcharenko, Ivan ^b   Ahituv, Nadav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TATA BOX; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE;

MAMMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84883457107     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2713     Document Type: Article

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