Characterizing the retinoblastoma 1 locus: Putative elements for Rb1 regulation by in silico analysis

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Hajjari, Mohammadreza ^a,b   Khoshnevisan, Atefeh ^a   Lemos, Bernardo ^c  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CpG islands; Epigenetics; In silico analysis; Retinoblastoma

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CPG ISLAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINOBLASTOMA; RNA SPLICING; SCORING SYSTEM; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 84893673652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00002     Document Type: Article

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