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Predicting enhancers by their sequence

Dinucleotide repeat motifs and transcription factor–binding sites are sufficient to define enhancers.

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  1. Yáñez-Cuna, J.O. et al. Dissection of thousands of cell type-specific enhancers identifies dinucleotide repeat motifs as general enhancer features. Genome Res. doi:10.1101/gr.169243.113 (8 April 2014).

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Rusk, N. Predicting enhancers by their sequence. Nat Methods 11, 606–607 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2987

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