Integrative analysis of tissue-specific methylation and alternative splicing identifies conserved transcription factor binding motifs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 8503-8514

  Wan, Jun ^a   Oliver, Verity F ^a   Zhu, Heng ^b   Zack, Donald J ^a,b,c   Qian, Jiang ^a   Merbs, Shannath L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE LA VISION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; GENOMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; INTRONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETINA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84885909715     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt652     Document Type: Article

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