promoter region

collocation in English

meaningsofpromoterandregion

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promoter
noun[C]
uk
/prəˈməʊ.tər/us
/prəˈmoʊ.t̬ɚ/
someone who tries to encourage something to happen ...
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region
noun[C]
uk
/ˈriː.dʒən/us
/ˈriː.dʒən/
a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country ...
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No association between genotype of thepromoterregionof serotonin transporter gene and serotonin transporter binding in human brain measured by pet.
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Genetic variation in the serotonin transporterpromoterregionaffects serotonin uptake in human blood platelets.
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Thepromoterregionon the maternally derived allele is hypermethylated relative to the paternal allele in somatic tissues.
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However, phenotypic effects were shown to depend on variation occurring in the 5kpromoterregionof the gene and not within the coding region surveyed in the present study.
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In the case o f amplified genes, sequence variants of thepromoterregionthat alter expression, or in the coding region that alter activity, could modify breast cancer risk.
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The sequence of the downstream genepromoterregionextending from 493 to 1 found in men with normal color vision, where the 1 position is the transcriptional star t site.
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For example, the acetylation profile of the survivinpromoterregioncan also be looked at.
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Instead, it is observed that modification of the chromatin inside of thepromoterregionmay be responsible for the transcriptional repression of the survivin gene.
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Thepromoterregionof the genome can move from one copy of a gene to another through homologous recombination.
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Decreased hypermethylation patterns reveal a transcriptionally accessiblepromoterregion, allowing for increased expression of the tumor suppressing genes.
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By binding to thepromoterregionat the start of other genes they turn them on, initiating the production of another protein, and so on.
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There are three polymorphisms in thepromoterregionof the gene, resulting in two common variants.
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Methylation at thepromoterregionis associated with gene silencing.
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By binding to thepromoterregionof a gene, the transcription factor causes that gene to be expressed.
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Most of the time, homeodomain proteins act in thepromoterregionof their target genes as complexes with other transcription factors.
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The expression of one transactivator gene can activate multiple genes, as long as they have the specificpromoterregionattached.
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Thispromoterregionis approximately 500 nucleotides long and is located just prior to the start of translation.
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Hypermethylation is one of the major epigenetic modifications that repress transcription viapromoterregionof tumour suppressor genes.
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