Sources of gene expression variation in a globally diverse human cohort

DJ Taylor, SB Chhetri, MG Tassia, A Biddanda, SM Yan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic variation that influences gene expression and splicing is a key source of phenotypic
diversity,,,–. Although invaluable, studies investigating these links in humans have been …

DART-Eval: A Comprehensive DNA Language Model Evaluation Benchmark on Regulatory DNA

A Patel, A Singhal, A Wang, A Pampari… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in self-supervised models for natural language, vision, and protein
sequences have inspired the development of large genomic DNA language models …

The genetic architecture of gene expression in individuals of African and European ancestry

K Fletez-Brant, R Sauteraud, Y Liang, S Micheletti… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
We conducted two large scale studies of the genetics of gene expression in individuals of
African ancestry within a cohort of consented 23andMe research participants and in LCL …

Genotype inference from aggregated chromatin accessibility data reveals genetic regulatory mechanisms

BM Wenz, Y He, NC Chen, JK Pickrell, JH Li… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Understanding the genetic causes for variability in chromatin accessibility can
shed light on the molecular mechanisms through which genetic variants may affect complex …

ChromBPNet: bias factorized, base-resolution deep learning models of chromatin accessibility reveal cis-regulatory sequence syntax, transcription factor footprints …

A Pampari, A Shcherbina, E Kvon, M Kosicki, S Nair… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Despite extensive mapping of cis-regulatory elements (cREs) across cellular contexts with
chromatin accessibility assays, the sequence syntax and genetic variants that regulate …