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SUBMITTER: Heinz S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4517609 | biostudies-other | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Heinz Sven S Romanoski Casey E CE Benner Christopher C Glass Christopher K CK
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 20150204 3
The human body contains several hundred cell types, all of which share the same genome. In metazoans, much of the regulatory code that drives cell type-specific gene expression is located in distal elements called enhancers. Although mammalian genomes contain millions of potential enhancers, only a small subset of them is active in a given cell type. Cell type-specific enhancer selection involves the binding of lineage-determining transcription factors that prime enhancers. Signal-dependent tran ...[more]