Demystifying the secret mission of enhancers: Linking distal regulatory elements to target genes

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 550-573

  Yao, Lijing ^a   Berman, Benjamin P ^b   Farnham, Peggy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin interactions; computational tools; enhancers; gene expression; genome editing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION ASSAY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME EDITING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

CHROMATIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84948568467     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2015.1087961     Document Type: Article

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