Correlated evolution of positions within mammalian cis elements.

Transcriptional regulation critically depends on proper interactions between transcription factors (TF) and their cognate DNA binding sites. The widely used model of TF-DNA binding--the positional weight matrix (PWM)--presumes independence between positions within the binding site. However, there is...

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Main Authors: Rithun Mukherjee, Perry Evans, Larry N Singh, Sridhar Hannenhalli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3568137?pdf=render