Mammalian transcriptional hotspots are enriched for tissue specific enhancers near cell type specific highly expressed genes and are predicted to act as transcriptional activator hubs

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Joshi, Anagha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ChIP sequencing; Data analysis; Transcription hotspots; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GENES; MAMMALS; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL INSIGHT; CHIP SEQUENCING; DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENE; HOTSPOTS; MULTIPLE CELL TYPES; STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; SETDB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84924059300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-014-0412-0     Document Type: Article

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