title: Gene regulation: enhancers stepping out of the shadow.
abstract: The expression of many animal genes has been shown to be controlled by two--rather than one--enhancers with similar regulatory content. Such enhancer redundancy ensures robustness of gene expression under adverse environmental or genetic conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA. or38@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hobert
mesh_terms: D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation