Promoter microsatellites as modulators of human gene expression

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 769, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-54

  Sawaya, Sterling M ^a   Bagshaw, Andrew T ^b   Buschiazzo, Emmanuel ^c   Gemmell, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FLI1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HMGA2 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NOS1 GENE; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PAX6 GENE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TREE OF LIFE; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84934435193     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5434-2_4     Document Type: Review

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