Phenotypic Robustness and the Assortativity Signature of Human Transcription Factor Networks

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Pechenick, Dov A ^a   Payne, Joshua L ^b   Moore, Jason H ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; TOPOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION;

BEHAVIORAL PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRECTED EDGES; GENES EXPRESSION; HUMAN TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; REGULATORY INTERACTIONS; SPACE AND TIME; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVITY SIGNATURE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC ROBUSTNESS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NETWORK; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84921817799     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003780     Document Type: Article

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