Ever-Changing Landscapes: Transcriptional Enhancers in Development and Evolution
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Ever-Changing Landscapes: Transcriptional Enhancers in Development and Evolution
A class of cis-regulatory elements, called enhancers, play a central role in orchestrating spatiotemporally precise gene-expression programs during development. Consequently, divergence in enhancer sequence and activity is thought to be an important mediator of inter- and intra-species phenotypic variation. Here, we give an overview of emerging principles of enhancer function, current models of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.09.018