Single site-specific integration targeting coupled with embryonic stem cell differentiation provides a highthroughput alternative to in vivo enhancer analyses

Open Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1229-1238

  Wilkinson, Adam C ^a   Goode, Debbie K ^a   Cheng, Yi Han ^a   Dickel, Diane E ^b   Foster, Sam ^a   Sendall, Tim ^a   Tijssen, Marloes R ^a   Sanchez, Maria Jose ^c   Pennacchio, Len A ^b   Kirkpatrick, Aileen M ^a   Göttgens, Berthold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enhancer; Es cells; Haematopoiesis; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84908096164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20136296     Document Type: Article

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