Mapping mammalian cell-type-specific transcriptional regulatory networks using KD-CAGE and ChIP-seq data in the TC-YIK cell line

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Lizio, Marina ^a   Ishizu, Yuri ^a   Itoh, Masayoshi ^a   Lassmann, Timo ^a,b   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Kubosaki, Atsutaka ^a   Severin, Jessica ^a   Kawaji, Hideya ^a   Nakamura, Yukio ^c   Suzuki, Harukazu ^a   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^a   Carninci, Piero ^a   Forrest, Alistair R R ^a,d   The FANTOM consortium, ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

CAGE; ChIP seq; FANTOM5; Pancreas; Perturbation; Transcriptional regulatory network

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ARTICLE; ASCL2 GENE; C11ORF9 GENE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HLF GENE; HSF4 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULINOMA CELL LINE; IRF6 GENE; IRF8 GENE; LMX1A GENE; MYRF GENE; NEUROD1 GENE; NPAS3 GENE; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PAX6 GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RFX6 GENE;

EID: 84954489007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00331     Document Type: Article

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