| Literature DB >> 16290136 |
Tanya Vavouri1, Gayle K McEwen, Adam Woolfe, Walter R Gilks, Greg Elgar.
Abstract
Many conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) in vertebrate genomes have been shown to function as tissue-specific enhancers. However, the target genes of most CNEs are unknown. Here we show that the target genes of duplicated CNEs can be predicted by considering their neighbouring paralogous genes. This enables us to provide the first systematic estimate of the genomic range for distal cis-regulatory interactions in the human genome: half of CNEs are >250 kb away from their associated gene.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16290136 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.10.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN: 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639