Recent advances in functional assays of transcriptional enhancers

Genomics

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 137-139

  Babbitt, Courtney C ^a   Markstein, Michele ^a   Gray, Jesse M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory elements; Enhancers; FIREWACh; MPRA; STARR Seq; TRIP

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HISTONE H3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BINDING SITE; DATA BASE; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENICS; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84939253438     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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