Minor Loops in Major Folds: Enhancer–Promoter Looping, Chromatin Restructuring, and Their Association with Transcriptional Regulation and Disease

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Matharu, Navneet ^a   Ahituv, Nadav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN;

ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84953295207     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005640     Document Type: Review

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