Understanding Tissue-Specific Gene Regulation

Cell Reports

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1077-1088

  Sonawane, Abhijeet Rajendra ^a,b   Platig, John ^c,d   Fagny, Maud ^c,d   Chen, Cho Yi ^c,d   Paulson, Joseph Nathaniel ^c,d   Lopes Ramos, Camila Miranda ^c,d   DeMeo, Dawn Lisa ^a,b   Quackenbush, John ^a,b,c,d   Glass, Kimberly ^a,b   Kuijjer, Marieke Lydia ^c,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

gene expression; gene regulation; GTEx; network biology; network medicine; regulatory networks; tissue specificity; transcription factors; transcriptional regulation; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85030321344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.10.001     Document Type: Article

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