Functional assessment of human enhancer activities using whole-genome STARR-sequencing

Genome Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Liu, Yuwen ^a,b   Yu, Shan ^a,b   Dhiman, Vineet K ^a,b   Brunetti, Tonya ^a,b   Eckart, Heather ^b   White, Kevin P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Tempus Labs Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancers; Non coding regions; Regulatory elements; STARR seq

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENHANCER REGION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER CELL LINE; RNA SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCEDURES;

CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85034609603     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1345-5     Document Type: Article

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