Transcriptional architecture of the mammalian circadian clock

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 164-179

  Takahashi, Joseph S ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CHROMATIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MAMMALS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85006325468     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.150     Document Type: Review

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