The expanding diagnostic toolbox for rare genetic diseases

KD Kernohan, KM Boycott - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Genomic technologies, such as targeted, exome and short-read genome sequencing
approaches, have revolutionized the care of patients with rare genetic diseases. However …

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 …

Tissue-Specific Regulation of CFTR Gene Expression

C Blotas, C Férec, S Moisan - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
More than 2000 variations are described within the CFTR (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane
Regulator) gene and related to large clinical issues from cystic fibrosis to mono-organ …

Increased enhancer–promoter interactions during developmental enhancer activation in mammals

Z Chen, V Snetkova, G Bower, S Jacinto, B Clock… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Remote enhancers are thought to interact with their target promoters via physical proximity,
yet the importance of this proximity for enhancer function remains unclear. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic decoding of cis gene regulation defines context-dependent control of the multi-gene costimulatory receptor locus in human T cells

CT Mowery, JW Freimer, Z Chen, S Casaní-Galdón… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) interact with trans regulators to orchestrate gene
expression, but how transcriptional regulation is coordinated in multi-gene loci has not been …

[HTML][HTML] An encyclopedia of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions in the human genome

AR Gschwind, KS Mualim, A Karbalayghareh… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Identifying transcriptional enhancers and their target genes is essential for understanding
gene regulation and the impact of human genetic variation on disease 1–6. Here we create …

Advances in the multimodal analysis of the 3D chromatin structure and gene regulation

MH Han, J Park, M Park - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies have demonstrated that the three-dimensional conformation of the chromatin
plays a crucial role in gene regulation, with aberrations potentially leading to various …

Differential Gene Expression in Activated Microglia Treated with Adenosine A2A Receptor Antagonists Highlights Olfactory Receptor 56 and T-Cell Activation GTPase …

A Lillo, J Serrano-Marín, J Lillo, I Raïch, G Navarro… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microglial activation often accompanies the plastic changes occurring in the brain of patients
with neurodegenerative diseases. A2A and A3 adenosine receptors have been proposed as …

A novel GATA2 distal enhancer mutation results in MonoMAC syndrome in 2 second cousins

RR West, TR Bauer Jr, LM Tuschong… - Blood …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Mutations in the transcription factor GATA2 can cause MonoMAC syndrome, a GATA2
deficiency disease characterized by several findings, including disseminated …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-omics atlas of the human retina at single-cell resolution

Q Liang, X Cheng, J Wang, L Owen, A Shakoor… - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Cell classes in the human retina are highly heterogeneous with their abundance varying by
several orders of magnitude. Here, we generated and integrated a multi-omics single-cell …