[HTML][HTML] A distal super-enhancer activates oncogenic ETS2 via recruiting MECOM in inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer

Y Chen, Y Ying, M Wang, C Ma, M Jia, L Shi… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abnormal activities of distal cis-regulatory elements (CREs) contribute to the initiation and
progression of cancer. Gain of super-enhancer (SE), a highly active distal CRE, is essential …

[HTML][HTML] Genomics and epigenetics guided identification of tissue-specific genomic safe harbors

D Shrestha, A Bag, R Wu, Y Zhang, X Tang, Q Qi… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Genomic safe harbors are regions of the genome that can maintain transgene
expression without disrupting the function of host cells. Genomic safe harbors play an …

Associations between pancreatic expression quantitative traits and risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

L Pistoni, M Gentiluomo, Y Lu… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the most lethal cancers. Its poor
prognosis is predominantly due to the fact that most patients remain asymptomatic until the …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of transcription factor co-regulators that drive prostate cancer progression

M Siddappa, SA Wani, MD Long, DA Leach… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
In prostate cancer (PCa), and many other hormone-dependent cancers, there is clear
evidence for distorted transcriptional control as disease driver mechanisms. Defining which …

[HTML][HTML] Low input capture Hi-C (liCHi-C) identifies promoter-enhancer interactions at high-resolution

L Tomás-Daza, L Rovirosa, P López-Martí… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Long-range interactions between regulatory elements and promoters are key in gene
transcriptional control; however, their study requires large amounts of starting material …

Viewing nuclear architecture through the eyes of nocturnal mammals

Y Feodorova, M Falk, LA Mirny, I Solovei - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
The cell nucleus is a remarkably well-organized organelle with membraneless but distinct
compartments of various functions. The largest of them, euchromatin and heterochromatin …

African American Prostate Cancer Displays Quantitatively Distinct Vitamin D Receptor Cistrome-transcriptome Relationships Regulated by BAZ1A

M Siddappa, S Hussain, SA Wani, J White… - Cancer Research …, 2023 - AACR
African American (AA) prostate cancer associates with vitamin D3 deficiency, but vitamin D
receptor (VDR) genomic actions have not been investigated in this context. We undertook …

Revisiting 3D chromatin architecture in cancer development and progression

Y Feng, S Pauklin - Nucleic Acids Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cancer development and progression are demarcated by transcriptional dysregulation,
which is largely attributed to aberrant chromatin architecture. Recent transformative …

Predicting brain-regional gene regulatory networks from multi-omics for Alzheimer's disease phenotypes and Covid-19 severity

S Khullar, D Wang - Human Molecular Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Neuroinflammation and immune dysregulation play a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD)
and are also associated with severe Covid-19 and neurological symptoms. Also, genome …

High-throughput functional dissection of noncoding SNPs with biased allelic enhancer activity for insulin resistance-relevant phenotypes

YY Duan, XF Chen, RJ Zhu, YY Jia, XT Huang… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Most of the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with insulin resistance (IR)-
relevant phenotypes by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are located in …