Highly specific epigenome editing by CRISPR-Cas9 repressors for silencing of distal regulatory elements

PI Thakore, AM D'ippolito, L Song, A Safi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Epigenome editing with the CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic
repeats)-Cas9 platform is a promising technology for modulating gene expression to direct …

Basset: learning the regulatory code of the accessible genome with deep convolutional neural networks

DR Kelley, J Snoek, JL Rinn - Genome research, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
The complex language of eukaryotic gene expression remains incompletely understood.
Despite the importance suggested by many noncoding variants statistically associated with …

Systematic mapping of functional enhancer–promoter connections with CRISPR interference

CP Fulco, M Munschauer, R Anyoha, G Munson… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Gene expression in mammals is regulated by noncoding elements that can affect physiology
and disease, yet the functions and target genes of most noncoding elements remain …

The 3D Genome Browser: a web-based browser for visualizing 3D genome organization and long-range chromatin interactions

Y Wang, F Song, B Zhang, L Zhang, J Xu, D Kuang… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Here, we introduce the 3D Genome Browser, http://3dgenome. org, which allows users to
conveniently explore both their own and over 300 publicly available chromatin interaction …

Chromatin architecture reorganization during stem cell differentiation

JR Dixon, I Jung, S Selvaraj, Y Shen… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Higher-order chromatin structure is emerging as an important regulator of gene expression.
Although dynamic chromatin structures have been identified in the genome, the full scope of …

The prevalence, evolution and chromatin signatures of plant regulatory elements

Z Lu, AP Marand, WA Ricci, CL Ethridge, X Zhang… - Nature Plants, 2019 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility and modification is a hallmark of regulatory DNA, the study of which
led to the discovery of cis-regulatory elements (CREs). Here, we characterize chromatin …

Transcription factors as readers and effectors of DNA methylation

H Zhu, G Wang, J Qian - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Recent technological advances have made it possible to decode DNA methylomes at single-
base-pair resolution under various physiological conditions. Many aberrant or differentially …

Chromosome conformation elucidates regulatory relationships in developing human brain

H Won, L de La Torre-Ubieta, JL Stein, NN Parikshak… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Three-dimensional physical interactions within chromosomes dynamically regulate gene
expression in a tissue-specific manner,,. However, the 3D organization of chromosomes …

Identification of 153 new loci associated with heel bone mineral density and functional involvement of GPC6 in osteoporosis

JP Kemp, JA Morris, C Medina-Gomez, V Forgetta… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is a common disease diagnosed primarily by measurement of bone mineral
density (BMD). We undertook a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 142,487 …

BCL11A enhancer dissection by Cas9-mediated in situ saturating mutagenesis

MC Canver, EC Smith, F Sher, L Pinello, NE Sanjana… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Enhancers, critical determinants of cellular identity, are commonly recognized by correlative
chromatin marks and gain-of-function potential, although only loss-of-function studies can …