Functional enhancers at the gene-poor 8q24 cancer-linked locus

Functional enhancers at the gene-poor 8q24 cancer-linked locus.

PLoS genetics, Vol. 5, No. 8. (14 August 2009), e1000597, doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000597

by Li Jia, Gilad Landan, Mark Pomerantz, et al.

This paper is recommended by Diane Robins (University of Michigan), who writes that this paper

"is the first functional analysis of a SNP in a gene desert that proves to be a variation in a FOX binding site making it a better androgen-responsive long-range enhancer for myc.  Follow-up paper shows interaction over 500 kb.."