Chromatin stretch enhancer states drive cell-specific gene regulation and harbor human disease risk variants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17921-17926

  Parker, Stephen C J ^a   Stitzel, Michael L ^a   Taylor, D Leland ^a   Orozco, Jose Miguel ^a   Erdos, Michael R ^a   Akiyama, Jennifer A ^b   Van Bueren, Kelly Lammerts ^c   Chines, Peter S ^a   Narisu, Narisu ^a   Black, Brian L ^c   Axel, Visel ^b,d   Pennacchio, Len A ^b,d   Collins, Francis S ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 84887072795     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317023110     Document Type: Article

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