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Assaying the regulatory potential of mammalian conserved non-coding sequences in human cells

Catia Attanasio1,6, Alexandre Reymond1,2, Richard Humbert3, Robert Lyle1,4, Michael S Kuehn3, Shane Neph3, Peter J Sabo3, Jeff Goldy3, Molly Weaver3, Andrew Haydock3, Kristin Lee3, Michael Dorschner3, Emmanouil T Dermitzakis5, Stylianos E Antonarakis1* and John A Stamatoyannopoulos3*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

2 Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

3 Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

4 Department of Medical Genetics, UllevÄl University Hospital, 0407 Oslo, Norway

5 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK

6 Current address: Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R168 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-r168

Published: 2 December 2008

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Vectors used in enhancer and promoter studies.

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Table S1: regulatory potential of CNCSs based on published work. Table S2: direct DNAseI hypersensitivity testing of random CNCSs: (a) CNCS-DHSs by tissue type; (b) all 192 randomly-selected CNCSs tested for DNAseI hypersensitivity across cell types. Table S3: unbiased mapping of DNAseI hypersensitive sites across 2.2 Mb of Chr21; coordinates of DNAseI hypersensitive sites by tissue. Table S4: coordinates of CNCSs and controls for cell transfection assays.

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