From remote enhancers to gene regulation: Charting the genome's regulatory landscapes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1620, 2013, Pages

  Symmons, Orsolya ^a   Spitz, François ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Regulatory landscapes and remote enhancers; Repressors and latent regulatory activity; Specificity of gene enhancer regulatory interactions

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; RODENT;

TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84891393469     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0358     Document Type: Review

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