Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription

R Fueyo, J Judd, C Feschotte, J Wysocka - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise about half of the mammalian genome. TEs often
contain sequences capable of recruiting the host transcription machinery, which they use to …

Characterizing cis-regulatory elements using single-cell epigenomics

S Preissl, KJ Gaulton, B Ren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes

S Chen, LC Francioli, JK Goodrich, RL Collins, M Kanai… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders,,–, but …

Hyenadna: Long-range genomic sequence modeling at single nucleotide resolution

E Nguyen, M Poli, M Faizi, A Thomas… - Advances in neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Genomic (DNA) sequences encode an enormous amount of information for gene regulation
and protein synthesis. Similar to natural language models, researchers have proposed …

Nucleotide Transformer: building and evaluating robust foundation models for human genomics

H Dalla-Torre, L Gonzalez, J Mendoza-Revilla… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The prediction of molecular phenotypes from DNA sequences remains a longstanding
challenge in genomics, often driven by limited annotated data and the inability to transfer …

SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks

C Bravo González-Blas, S De Winter, G Hulselmans… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in individual cells provides an
opportunity to decipher enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Here we present …

A joint NCBI and EMBL-EBI transcript set for clinical genomics and research

J Morales, S Pujar, JE Loveland, A Astashyn, R Bennett… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Comprehensive genome annotation is essential to understand the impact of clinically
relevant variants. However, the absence of a standard for clinical reporting and browser …

Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

Effective gene expression prediction from sequence by integrating long-range interactions

Ž Avsec, V Agarwal, D Visentin, JR Ledsam… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
How noncoding DNA determines gene expression in different cell types is a major unsolved
problem, and critical downstream applications in human genetics depend on improved …

Human genetic diversity alters off-target outcomes of therapeutic gene editing

S Cancellieri, J Zeng, LY Lin, M Tognon, MA Nguyen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR gene editing holds great promise to modify DNA sequences in somatic cells to treat
disease. However, standard computational and biochemical methods to predict off-target …