Hierarchy within the mammary STAT5-driven Wap super-enhancer

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 904-911

  Shin, Ha Youn ^a   Willi, Michaela ^a,b   Yoo, Kyung Hyun ^a   Zeng, Xianke ^a   Wang, Chaochen ^a   Metser, Gil ^a   Hennighausen, Lothar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STAT5 PROTEIN; MILK PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; WHEY ACIDIC PROTEINS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; MAMMARY GLAND; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; UDDER;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MILK PROTEINS; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BINDING; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84976878643     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3606     Document Type: Article

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