dc.contributor.author | Guo, Yongjian | en |
dc.contributor.author | Jamison, D. Curtis | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-24T12:19:06Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-24T12:19:06Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2005-10-06 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | BMC Genomics. 2005 Oct 06;6(1):140 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/18961 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Background
As a result of high-throughput genotyping methods, millions of human genetic variants have been reported in recent years. To efficiently identify those with significant biological functions, a practical strategy is to concentrate on variants located in important sequence regions such as gene regulatory regions.
Results
Analysis of the most common type of variant, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), shows that in gene promoter regions more SNPs occur in close proximity to transcriptional start sites than in regions further upstream, and a disproportionate number of those SNPs represent nucleotide transversions. Additionally, the number of SNPs found in the predicted transcription factor binding sites is higher than in non-binding site sequences.
Conclusion
Current information about transcription factor binding site sequence patterns may not be exhaustive, and SNPs may be actively involved in influencing gene expression by affecting the transcription factor binding sites. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.title | The distribution of SNPs in human gene regulatory regions | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2012-08-24T12:19:06Z | en |
dc.description.version | Published version | en |
dc.rights.holder | Yongjian Guo et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. | en |
dc.title.serial | BMC Genomics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-6-140 | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |