Transposable elements in mammalian chromatin organization

HA Lawson, Y Liang, T Wang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA elements that comprise almost 50% of
mammalian genomic sequence. TEs are capable of making additional copies of themselves …

Human brain organogenesis: Toward a cellular understanding of development and disease

KW Kelley, SP Pașca - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of the human nervous system is a distinctly complex although highly
regulated process. Human tissue inaccessibility has impeded a molecular understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome

K Zhang, JD Hocker, M Miller, X Hou, J Chiou… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Current catalogs of regulatory sequences in the human genome are still incomplete and lack
cell type resolution. To profile the activity of gene regulatory elements in diverse cell types …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development

RS Ziffra, CN Kim, JM Ross, A Wilfert, TN Turner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian development, differences in chromatin state coincide with cellular
differentiation and reflect changes in the gene regulatory landscape. In the developing brain …

Functional characterization of Alzheimer's disease genetic variants in microglia

X Yang, J Wen, H Yang, IR Jones, X Zhu, W Liu, B Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in microglia demonstrate the most substantial
enrichment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) heritability compared to other brain cell types …

Single-cell DNA methylation and 3D genome architecture in the human brain

W Tian, J Zhou, A Bartlett, Q Zeng, H Liu, RG Castanon… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Delineating the gene-regulatory programs underlying complex cell types is fundamental for
understanding brain function in health and disease. Here, we comprehensively examined …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin and gene-regulatory dynamics of the developing human cerebral cortex at single-cell resolution

AE Trevino, F Müller, J Andersen, L Sundaram… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Genetic perturbations of cortical development can lead to neurodevelopmental disease,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To identify genomic regions crucial to …

Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits

P Vanderhaeghen, F Polleux - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
The brain of modern humans has evolved remarkable computational abilities that enable
higher cognitive functions. These capacities are tightly linked to an increase in the size and …

Widespread contribution of transposable elements to the rewiring of mammalian 3D genomes

MNK Choudhary, K Quaid, X Xing, H Schmidt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are major contributors of genetic material in mammalian
genomes. These often include binding sites for architectural proteins, including the …

Linking genome structures to functions by simultaneous single-cell Hi-C and RNA-seq

Z Liu, Y Chen, Q Xia, M Liu, H Xu, Y Chi, Y Deng… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Much progress has been made recently in single-cell chromosome conformation capture
technologies. However, a method that allows simultaneous profiling of chromatin …