The Enhancer Landscape during Early Neocortical Development Reveals Patterns of Dense Regulation and Co-option

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Wenger, Aaron M ^a   Clarke, Shoa L ^b   Notwell, James H ^a   Chung, Tisha ^b   Tuteja, Geetu ^b   Guturu, Harendra ^a   Schaar, Bruce T ^b   Bejerano, Gill ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E1A ASSOCIATED P300 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX5;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; FEZF2 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOUSE; NEOCORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; RELN GENE; SATB2 GENE; SOX5 GENE; TBR1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; NEOCORTEX; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84884656824     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003728     Document Type: Article

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