Analysis of nascent RNA identifies a unified architecture of initiation regions at mammalian promoters and enhancers.

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Published in Nat Genet on November 10, 2014

Authors

Leighton J Core1, André L Martins2, Charles G Danko2, Colin T Waters1, Adam Siepel2, John T Lis1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
2: Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

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