Massively parallel cis-regulatory analysis in the mammalian central nervous system

Genome Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 238-255

  Shen, Susan Q ^a   Myers, Connie A ^a   Hughes, Andrew E O ^a   Byrne, Leah C ^b   Flannery, John G ^b   Corbo, Joseph C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; SPACER DNA;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BRAIN CORTEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIS REGULATORY ELEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTROPORATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; MASSIVELY PARALLEL REPORTER ASSAY; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION SITE; RETINA; RNA ISOLATION; TATA BOX; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; C57BL MOUSE; DEPENDOPARVOVIRUS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VECTORS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETINA; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84956945024     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.193789.115     Document Type: Article

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