Breaking TADs: how alterations of chromatin domains result in disease

DG Lupiáñez, M Spielmann, S Mundlos - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
Spatial organization is an inherent property of the vertebrate genome to accommodate the
roughly 2m of DNA in the nucleus of a cell. In this nonrandom organization, topologically …

Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers

A Visel, EM Rubin, LA Pennacchio - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
In contrast to protein-coding sequences, the significance of variation in non-coding DNA in
human disease has been minimally explored. A great number of recent genome-wide …

Enhancer redundancy provides phenotypic robustness in mammalian development

M Osterwalder, I Barozzi, V Tissières… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Distant-acting tissue-specific enhancers, which regulate gene expression, vastly outnumber
protein-coding genes in mammalian genomes, but the functional importance of this …

[HTML][HTML] An atlas of dynamic chromatin landscapes in mouse fetal development

DU Gorkin, I Barozzi, Y Zhao, Y Zhang, H Huang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has established a genomic
resource for mammalian development, profiling a diverse panel of mouse tissues at 8 …

[HTML][HTML] Progressive loss of function in a limb enhancer during snake evolution

EZ Kvon, OK Kamneva, US Melo, I Barozzi… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The evolution of body shape is thought to be tightly coupled to changes in regulatory
sequences, but specific molecular events associated with major morphological transitions in …

Modulation of tissue repair by regeneration enhancer elements

J Kang, J Hu, R Karra, AL Dickson, VA Tornini… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
How tissue regeneration programs are triggered by injury has received limited research
attention. Here we investigate the existence of enhancer regulatory elements that are …

[HTML][HTML] The endothelial-specific microRNA miR-126 governs vascular integrity and angiogenesis

S Wang, AB Aurora, BA Johnson, X Qi, J McAnally… - Developmental cell, 2008 - cell.com
Endothelial cells play essential roles in maintenance of vascular integrity, angiogenesis, and
wound repair. We show that an endothelial cell-restricted microRNA (miR-126) mediates …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid and pervasive changes in genome-wide enhancer usage during mammalian development

AS Nord, MJ Blow, C Attanasio, JA Akiyama, A Holt… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Enhancers are distal regulatory elements that can activate tissue-specific gene expression
and are abundant throughout mammalian genomes. Although substantial progress has …

VISTA Enhancer Browser—a database of tissue-specific human enhancers

A Visel, S Minovitsky, I Dubchak… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Despite the known existence of distant-acting cis-regulatory elements in the human genome,
only a small fraction of these elements has been identified and experimentally characterized …

Evolutionary changes in promoter and enhancer activity during human corticogenesis

SK Reilly, J Yin, AE Ayoub, D Emera, J Leng, J Cotney… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Human higher cognition is attributed to the evolutionary expansion and elaboration of the
human cerebral cortex. However, the genetic mechanisms contributing to these …