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Enhancer turnover and conserved regulatory function in vertebrate evolution.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 19 Dec 2013
Domené Sabina, Bumaschny Viviana F, de Souza Flávio S J, Franchini Lucía F, Nasif Sofía, Low Malcolm J, Rubinstein Marcelo
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in regulatory regions including enhancers are an important source of variation and innovation during evolution. Enhancers can evolve by changes in the sequence, arrangement and repertoire of transcription factor binding sites, but whole enhancers can also be lost or gained in certain lineages in a process of turnover. The proopiomelanocortin gene (Pomc), which encodes a prohormone, is expressed in the...
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