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Analyzing a putative enhancer of optic disc morphology.
BMC genetics - 22 Oct 2020
Babenko Vladimir, Babenko Roman, Orlov Yuri
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BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have identified the CDC7-TGFBR3 intergenic region on chromosome 1 to be strongly associated with optic disc area size. The mechanism of its function remained unclear until new data on eQTL markers emerged from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project. The target region was found to contain a strong silencer of the distal (800 kb) Transcription Factor (TF) gene GFI1...
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