Characterizing cis-regulatory elements using single-cell epigenomics

S Preissl, KJ Gaulton, B Ren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-specific gene expression patterns and dynamics during development or in disease
are controlled by cis-regulatory elements (CREs), such as promoters and enhancers …

Long-range phasing of dynamic, tissue-specific and allele-specific regulatory elements

S Battaglia, K Dong, J Wu, Z Chen, FJ Najm, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenomic maps identify gene regulatory elements by their chromatin state. However,
prevailing short-read sequencing methods cannot effectively distinguish alleles, evaluate …

Cellular interactions in the pituitary stem cell niche

TL Willis, EJ Lodge, CL Andoniadou… - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2022 - Springer
Stem cells in the anterior pituitary gland can give rise to all resident endocrine cells and are
integral components for the appropriate development and subsequent maintenance of the …

Tissue-specific enhancer–gene maps from multimodal single-cell data identify causal disease alleles

S Sakaue, K Weinand, S Isaac, KK Dey, K Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Translating genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci into causal variants and genes
requires accurate cell-type-specific enhancer–gene maps from disease-relevant tissues …

Single-cell sequencing identifies differentiation-related markers for molecular classification and recurrence prediction of PitNET

Q Zhang, B Yao, X Long, Z Chen, M He, Y Wu… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Pituitary neuroendocrine tumor (PitNET) is one of the most common intracranial tumors with
variable recurrence rate. Currently, the recurrence prediction is unsatisfying and can be …

Obesity disrupts the pituitary-hepatic UPR communication leading to NAFLD progression

Q Qian, M Li, Z Zhang, SW Davis, K Rahmouni… - Cell metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Obesity alters levels of pituitary hormones that govern hepatic immune-metabolic
homeostasis, dysregulation of which leads to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) …

Single-cell multi-ome regression models identify functional and disease-associated enhancers and enable chromatin potential analysis

S Mitra, R Malik, W Wong, A Rahman, AJ Hartemink… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
We present a gene-level regulatory model, single-cell ATAC+ RNA linking (SCARlink),
which predicts single-cell gene expression and links enhancers to target genes using multi …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-omics profiling of single nuclei from frozen archived postmortem human pituitary tissue

N Mendelev, M Zamojski, MAS Amper, WS Cheng… - STAR protocols, 2022 - Elsevier
Concomitant profiling of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility in isolated nuclei can
reveal gene regulatory control mechanisms in health and disease. We report a single …

Transcriptomic and chromatin landscape analysis reveals that involvement of pituitary level transcription factors modulate incubation behaviors of magang geese

J Chang, D Fan, J Liu, Y Xu, X Huang, Y Tian, J Xu… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The incubation behavior of geese seriously affects their egg production performance.
Studies on incubation behavior have identified functional genes, but the regulatory …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveal distinct immune-infiltrating phenotypes and macrophage–tumor interaction axes among different lineages of pituitary …

S Lin, Y Dai, C Han, T Han, L Zhao, R Wu, J Liu… - Genome Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) are common gland
neoplasms demonstrating distinctive transcription factors. Although the role of immune cells …