High throughput technologies for the functional discovery of mammalian enhancers: New approaches for understanding transcriptional regulatory network dynamics

Genomics

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 151-158

  Dailey, Lisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Development; Enhancers; Genome; Transcription; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; CHROMATIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MAMMAL CELL; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PROCEDURES;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84939261087     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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