Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome

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

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6131-6138

  Kellis, Manolis ^a,b   Wold, Barbara ^c   Snyder, Michael P ^d   Bernstein, Bradley E ^b,e,f   Kundaje, Anshul ^a,b   Marinov, Georgi K ^c   Ward, Lucas D ^a,b   Birney, Ewan ^g   Crawford, Gregory E ^h   Dekker, Job ⁱ   Dunham, Ian ^g   Elnitski, Laura L ^j   Farnham, Peggy J ^k   Feingold, Elise A ^j   Gerstein, Mark ^l   Giddings, Morgan C ^m   Gilbert, David M ⁿ   Gingeras, Thomas R ^o   Green, Eric D ^j   Guigo, Roderic ^p   Hubbard, Tim ^q   Kent, Jim ^r   Lieb, Jason D ^s   Myers, Richard M ^t   Pazin, Michael J ^j   Ren, Bing ^u   Stamatoyannopoulos, John A ^v   Weng, Zhiping ⁱ   White, Kevin P ^w   Hardison, Ross C ^x   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m Marketing Your Science LLC   (United States)

ⁿ FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^p CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^q WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^r University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^s PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^x PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENHANCER REGION; FUNCTIONAL DNA ELEMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME SIZE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA STRUCTURE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE; DNA; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84899633396     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318948111     Document Type: Review

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