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A non-random walk through the genome

Brian Oliver1 email and Tom Misteli2 email

1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

2National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

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Genome Biology 2005, 6:214doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-4-214

Published: 31 March 2005

Subject areas: Molecular biology, Cell biology, Genome studies, Genetics

Abstract

Recent publications on a wide range of eukaryotes indicate that genes showing particular expression patterns are not randomly distributed in the genome but are clustered into contiguous regions that we call neighborhoods. It seems probable that this organization is related to chromatin and the structure of the nucleus.


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