Dissection of thousands of cell type-specific enhancers identifies dinucleotide repeat motifs as general enhancer features

Genome Research

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1147-1156

  Yáñez Cuna, J Omar ^a   Arnold, Cosmas D ^a   Stampfel, Gerald ^a   Borýn, Łukasz M ^a   Gerlach, Daniel ^b   Rath, Martina ^a   Stark, Alexander ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84901804887     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.169243.113     Document Type: Article

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