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A brief review on the Human Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.
Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics - 1 Jun 2013
Qu Hongzhu, Fang Xiangdong
Abstract excerpt
The ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project is an international research consortium that aims to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence. The second phase of the project comprised 1640 datasets from 147 different cell types, yielding a set of 30 publications across several journals. These data revealed that 80.4% of the human genome displays some functionality in at least one cell...
Topics
- Chromatin
- DNA
- DNA Methylation
- Disease
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Human
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Annotation
- National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.)
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
