Chromatin accessibility and the regulatory epigenome

SL Klemm, Z Shipony, WJ Greenleaf - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Physical access to DNA is a highly dynamic property of chromatin that plays an essential
role in establishing and maintaining cellular identity. The organization of accessible …

Chromatin accessibility profiling methods

L Minnoye, GK Marinov, T Krausgruber, L Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility, or the physical access to chromatinized DNA, is a widely studied
characteristic of the eukaryotic genome. As active regulatory DNA elements are generally …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of LZTFL1 as a candidate effector gene at a COVID-19 risk locus

DJ Downes, AR Cross, P Hua, N Roberts… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) disease (COVID-19)
pandemic has caused millions of deaths worldwide. Genome-wide association studies …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of transcription factor binding sites using ATAC-seq

Z Li, MH Schulz, T Look, M Begemann, M Zenke… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Transposase-Accessible Chromatin followed by sequencing (ATAC-seq) is a
simple protocol for detection of open chromatin. Computational footprinting, the search for …

DeepC: predicting 3D genome folding using megabase-scale transfer learning

R Schwessinger, M Gosden, D Downes, RC Brown… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Predicting the impact of noncoding genetic variation requires interpreting it in the context of
three-dimensional genome architecture. We have developed deepC, a transfer-learning …

[HTML][HTML] Super-enhancers include classical enhancers and facilitators to fully activate gene expression

JW Blayney, H Francis, A Rampasekova, B Camellato… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Super-enhancers are compound regulatory elements that control expression of key cell
identity genes. They recruit high levels of tissue-specific transcription factors and co …

[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary embolism and 529 human blood metabolites: genetic correlation and two-sample Mendelian randomization study

R Feng, M Lu, J Xu, F Zhang, M Yang, P Luo, K Xu… - BMC genomic data, 2022 - Springer
Background The incidence of pulmonary embolism complications in the literature ranges
from 10 to 50%, with a 0.5–10% risk of fatal pulmonary embolism. However, the biological …

Deep learning of pharmacogenomics resources: moving towards precision oncology

YC Chiu, HIH Chen, A Gorthi, M Mostavi… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The recent accumulation of cancer genomic data provides an opportunity to understand how
a tumor's genomic characteristics can affect its responses to drugs. This field, called …

Super-enhancers require a combination of classical enhancers and novel facilitator elements to drive high levels of gene expression

J Blayney, H Francis, B Camellato, L Mitchell, R Stolper… - Biorxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Super-enhancers (SEs) are a class of compound regulatory elements which control
expression of key cell-identity genes. It remains unclear whether they are simply clusters of …

ATACdb: a comprehensive human chromatin accessibility database

F Wang, X Bai, Y Wang, Y Jiang, B Ai… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Accessible chromatin is a highly informative structural feature for identifying regulatory
elements, which provides a large amount of information about transcriptional activity and …