In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 453-468

  Levo, Michal ^a   Segal, Eran ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENHANCEOSOME; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA BINDING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84902810053     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3684     Document Type: Review

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