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