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Phylogenetic footprinting is a technique used to identify transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) or other types of cis-regulatory elements by finding unusually well-conserved regions within a set of orthologous non-coding DNA sequences from multiple species.
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Ruan, J. (2013). Phylogenetic Footprinting. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_337
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