Class: Ucsc::Hg18::ExaptedRepeat
- Inherits:
-
DBConnection
- Object
- ActiveRecord::Base
- DBConnection
- Ucsc::Hg18::ExaptedRepeat
- Includes:
- Feature
- Defined in:
- lib/ucsc/hg18/activerecord.rb
Overview
DESCRIPTION
From Exapted Repeat description page when clicking the “Describe table schema” in the table browser: “This track displays conserved non-exonic elements that have been deposited by mobile elements (repeats), a process termed ”exaptation“ (Gould et al., 1982). These regions were identified during a genome-wide survey (Lowe et al., 2007) with the expectation that regions of this type may act as distal transcriptional regulators for nearby genes. A previous case study experimentally verified an exapted mobile element acting as a distal enhancer (Bejerano et al. , 2006).”