Developmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators: a perspective based on cell fate determination

R Zug - Biology Open, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Many human birth defects and neurodevelopmental disorders are caused by loss-of-function
mutations in a single copy of transcription factor (TF) and chromatin regulator genes …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional regulation and its misregulation in disease

TI Lee, RA Young - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The gene expression programs that establish and maintain specific cell states in humans
are controlled by thousands of transcription factors, cofactors, and chromatin regulators …

Haplo-insufficiency? Let me count the ways

KC Quon, A Berns - Genes & development, 2001 - genesdev.cshlp.org
During the course of cancer development, a normal cell progresses toward malignancy by
acquiring a specific series of mutations. These include mutations that activate otherwise …

Mechanisms of tissue and cell-type specificity in heritable traits and diseases

I Hekselman, E Yeger-Lotem - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Hundreds of heritable traits and diseases that are caused by germline aberrations in
ubiquitously expressed genes manifest in a remarkably limited number of cell types and …

Mechanisms of robustness in gene regulatory networks involved in neural development

CD Arcuschin, M Pinkasz, IE Schor - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The functions of living organisms are affected by different kinds of perturbation, both internal
and external, which in many cases have functional effects and phenotypic impact. The …

[图书][B] Epigenetic gene expression and regulation

S Huang, MD Litt, CA Blakey - 2015 - books.google.com
Epigenetic Gene Expression and Regulation reviews current knowledge on the heritable
molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression, contribute to disease susceptibility …

Building developmental gene regulatory networks

E Li, EH Davidson - Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Animal development is an elaborate process programmed by genomic regulatory
instructions. Regulatory genes encode transcription factors and signal molecules, and their …

Role of duplicate genes in determining the tissue-selectivity of hereditary diseases

R Barshir, I Hekselman, N Shemesh, M Sharon… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
A longstanding puzzle in human genetics is what limits the clinical manifestation of
hundreds of hereditary diseases to certain tissues, while their causal genes are expressed …

Dynamic changes in the epigenomic landscape regulate human organogenesis and link to developmental disorders

DT Gerrard, AA Berry, RE Jennings, MJ Birket… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
How the genome activates or silences transcriptional programmes governs organ formation.
Little is known in human embryos undermining our ability to benchmark the fidelity of stem …

Chromatin topology in development and disease

O Bompadre, G Andrey - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2019 - Elsevier
The discovery of domains of preferential interaction or Topologically Associating Domains
(TADs) has provided a framework to understand the relation between enhancers and …