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Recent Advances In Functional Assays Of Transcriptional Enhancers, Courtney Babbitt, Michele Markstein, Jesse Gray
Recent Advances In Functional Assays Of Transcriptional Enhancers, Courtney Babbitt, Michele Markstein, Jesse Gray
Michele Markstein
In this special edition of Genomics, we present reviews of the current state of the field in identifying and functionally understanding transcriptional enhancers in cells and developing tissues. Typically several enhancers coordinate the expression of an individual target gene, each controlling that gene's expression in specific cell types at specific times. Until recently, identifying each gene's enhancers had been challenging because enhancers do not occupy prescribed locations relative to their target genes. Recently there have been powerful advances in DNA sequencing and other technologies that make it possible to identify the majority of enhancers in virtually any cell type of …