Targeted inactivation and identification of targets of the Gli2a transcription factor in the zebrafish

Biology Open

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1203-1213

  Wang, Xingang ^a,d   Zhao, Zhonghua ^a   Muller, Julius ^a   Iyu, Audrey ^a   Khng, Alexis Jiaying ^b   Guccione, Ernesto ^a   Ruan, Yijun ^b,e   Ingham, Philip W ^a,c,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology and Medicine   (China)

^e JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LEE KONG CHIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ChIP seq; Gli transcription factor; Gli2a null allele; Hedgehog signaling; Target genes; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978524164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20136262     Document Type: Article

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