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Enhancers and Genetics

By | July 10, 2021

Enhancers They are short DNA fragments with several prominent features such as: driving the expression of the target gene, orientation relative to a target gene promoter, functionally independent of genomic distance, sensitivity towards DNase treatment (since its neucleosome free region), functional influence over chromatin architecture by allowing binding of transcription co-activators and histone acetylation, and… Read More »