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Duttke
Lab
Lab
Decoding what brings genomes to life
Transcription regulation in health and disease
Research
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Gene regulation in health and disease:
Interrogating your immune system for prognostics and diagnostics
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The spatial grammar of our genome:
Decoding gene regulation from the perspective of the transcription start site
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Human dispersed transcription initiation:
Based on their pattern of transcription initiation, regulatory elements such as promoters and enhancers are commonly grouped into ‘focused’ or ‘dispersed’.