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Connecting the regulatory genome

Nature Genetics volume 48, pages 479–480 (2016)Cite this article

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Determining how the evolving genome-wide map of distal regulatory elements is connected with target genes has remained a significant challenge, despite progress in understanding chromatin architecture and regulation. A new study presents a computational approach for predicting distal element–gene interactions.

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Figure 1: Connecting distal elements with target genes.

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  1. John Stamatoyannopoulos is in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Medicine at the University of Washington and at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Seattle, Washington, USA.,

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Stamatoyannopoulos, J. Connecting the regulatory genome. Nat Genet 48, 479–480 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3553

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