Epigenomic profiling of retinal progenitors reveals LHX2 is required for developmental regulation of open chromatin

Communications Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Zibetti, Cristina ^a   Liu, Sheng ^a,b   Wan, Jun ^a,b   Qian, Jiang ^a,c   Blackshaw, Seth ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LHX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; EMBRYOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEOSOME; PROCEDURES; RETINA;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION SEQUENCING; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEOSOMES; RETINA; RNA-SEQ; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85065611648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23993642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0375-9     Document Type: Article

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