Epigenomic landscapes of retinal rods and cones

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue MARCH2016, 2016, Pages

  Mo, Alisa ^a   Luo, Chongyuan ^b,c   Davis, Fred P ^c,g   Mukamel, Eran A ^d   Henry, Gilbert L ^c   Nery, Joseph R ^b   Urich, Mark A ^b   Picard, Serge ^c   Lister, Ryan ^b,e   Eddy, Sean R ^c,h,i   Beer, Michael A ^a,f   Ecker, Joseph R ^b,c   Nathans, Jeremy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

DNA; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTONES; METHYLATION; MICE; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84961864523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.11613     Document Type: Article

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