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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Danilo Licastro
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19371 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Licastro Danilo D Gennarino Vincenzo A VA Petrera Francesca F Sanges Remo R Banfi Sandro S Stupka Elia E
BMC genomics 20100304
<h4>Background</h4>Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) are highly constrained elements of mammalian genomes, whose functional role has not been completely elucidated yet. Previous studies have shown that some of them act as enhancers in mouse, while some others are expressed in both normal and cancer-derived human tissues. Only one UCE element so far was shown to present these two functions concomitantly, as had been observed in other isolated instances of single, non ultraconserved enhancer elements ...[more]