cistrome

English

Etymology

This term was coined by investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Technologies, from the words cis (DNA segment) and ome (Greek word for manager)

Noun

cistrome (plural cistromes)

(microbiology) The set of DNA segments (cis) of a transacting factor on a genome scale.
(microbiology) A map of all locations effected by the estrogen receptor.

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