Insulated Neighborhoods: Structural and Functional Units of Mammalian Gene Control

Cell

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1188-1200

  Hnisz, Denes ^a   Day, Daniel S ^a   Young, Richard A ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MAMMAL; METABOLISM;

CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MAMMALS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84995810181     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.10.024     Document Type: Review

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