Epigenetics regulates gene expression and has been confirmed to play a critical role in a
variety of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …

Cell type-specific gene expression patterns and dynamics during development or in disease
are controlled by cis-regulatory elements (CREs), such as promoters and enhancers …

All living things experience an increase in entropy, manifested as a loss of genetic and
epigenetic information. In yeast, epigenetic information is lost over time due to the …

The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders,,–, but …

Genomic (DNA) sequences encode an enormous amount of information for gene regulation
and protein synthesis. Similar to natural language models, researchers have proposed …

Heatmap is a widely used statistical visualization method on matrix‐like data to reveal
similar patterns shared by subsets of rows and columns. In the R programming language …

SARS-CoV-2 can cause acute respiratory distress and death in some patients. Although
severe COVID-19 is linked to substantial inflammation, how SARS-CoV-2 triggers …

Most signals in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of complex traits implicate
noncoding genetic variants with putative gene regulatory effects. However, currently …

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying …

Genome-wide association studies provide a powerful means of identifying loci and genes
contributing to disease, but in many cases, the related cell types/states through which genes …