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Functionally conserved enhancers with divergent sequences in distant vertebrates.
BMC genomics - 30 Oct 2015
Yang Song, Oksenberg Nir, Takayama Sachiko, Heo Seok-Jin, Poliakov Alexander, Ahituv Nadav, Dubchak Inna, Boffelli Dario
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BACKGROUND: To examine the contributions of sequence and function conservation in the evolution of enhancers, we systematically identified enhancers whose sequences are not conserved among distant groups of vertebrate species, but have homologous function and are likely to be derived from a common ancestral sequence. Our approach combined comparative genomics and epigenomics to identify potential enhancer...
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