cistrome
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
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.