Epigenetic and transcriptional networks underlying atrial fibrillation

AF van Ouwerkerk, AW Hall, ZA Kadow… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… These transcription factors target thousands of regulatory elements for genes involved in
atrial function, including ion channels, gap junctions, structural/cytoskeletal components, and …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide study of atrial fibrillation identifies seven risk loci and highlights biological pathways and regulatory elements involved in cardiac development

JB Nielsen, LG Fritsche, W Zhou, TM Teslovich… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia and a major risk factor for stroke, heart
failure, and premature death. The pathogenesis of AF remains poorly understood, which …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of atrial fibrillation associated genes and functional non-coding variants

AF van Ouwerkerk, FM Bosada… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
regulatory elements and target gene expression. To uncover causal genetic variants, variant
regulatory elements and … Of 104 genetic variant regions associated with atrial fibrillation

Identification of functional variant enhancers associated with atrial fibrillation

AF van Ouwerkerk, FM Bosada, J Liu, J Zhang… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… F, Top 10 motifs found in STARR-seq between −1.5 and 1.5 L2FC that we consider not to
be potential regulatory elements. A–F, HOMER calculates Q values using the Benjamini-…

Genetics of atrial fibrillation: state of the art in 2017

D Fatkin, CF Santiago, IG Huttner, SA Lubitz… - Heart, Lung and …, 2017 - Elsevier
… are presumed to contain regulatory sequences that influence gene … elements and to define
function-altering “business” SNPs. The target genes controlled by these regulatory elements

[HTML][HTML] Long-range regulatory interactions at the 4q25 atrial fibrillation risk locus involve PITX2c and ENPEP

LA Aguirre, ME Alonso, C Badía-Careaga, I Rollán… - BMC biology, 2015 - Springer
… To identify putative cis-regulatory elements located in the 4q25 … of histone modifications
associated with active elements [23] (… Overall, our results suggest that the regulatory elements

Epigenetic analyses of human left atrial tissue identifies gene networks underlying atrial fibrillation

AW Hall, M Chaffin, C Roselli, H Lin… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… We used MACS2 to identify peak regions (P<0.01), applied a Markov model to classify
regulatory elements, and annotated this model with matched gene expression data. We …

Epigenetic mechanisms in atrial fibrillation: new insights and future directions

H Tao, KH Shi, JJ Yang, J Li - Trends in cardiovascular medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
… In summary, the miRNAs exert their specific regulatory functions affecting the stability or
translation of targeted mRNA. Importantly, they have been described to partake in numerous …

Regulatory mechanisms of atrial fibrotic remodeling in atrial fibrillation

CS Lin, CH Pan - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2008 - Springer
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common clinical arrhythmia and is associated with cardiovascular
morbidity and excessive mortality [1, 2]. AF can occur in patients without evident heart …

[HTML][HTML] The role of transcription factors in atrial fibrillation

M Zhou, Y Liao, X Tu - Journal of thoracic disease, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia, is characterized by absence of P
… Furthermore, studies showed that PITX2c also down-regulated the expression of Nppa and …