Chromatin accessibility profiling by ATAC-seq

FC Grandi, H Modi, L Kampman, MR Corces - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
The assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) provides a
simple and scalable way to detect the unique chromatin landscape associated with a cell …

Chromatin accessibility profiling methods

L Minnoye, GK Marinov, T Krausgruber, L Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility, or the physical access to chromatinized DNA, is a widely studied
characteristic of the eukaryotic genome. As active regulatory DNA elements are generally …

Scalable, multimodal profiling of chromatin accessibility, gene expression and protein levels in single cells

EP Mimitou, CA Lareau, KY Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent technological advances have enabled massively parallel chromatin profiling with
scATAC-seq (single-cell assay for transposase accessible chromatin by sequencing). Here …

Epigenomic dissection of Alzheimer's disease pinpoints causal variants and reveals epigenome erosion

X Xiong, BT James, CA Boix, YP Park, K Galani… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Recent work has identified dozens of non-coding loci for Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, but
their mechanisms and AD transcriptional regulatory circuitry are poorly understood. Here …

Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility profiling highlights regulatory mechanisms of coronary artery disease risk

AW Turner, SS Hu, JV Mosquera, WF Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a complex inflammatory disease involving genetic
influences across cell types. Genome-wide association studies have identified over 200 loci …

A cis-regulatory atlas in maize at single-cell resolution

AP Marand, Z Chen, A Gallavotti, RJ Schmitz - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary cis-regulatory elements (CREs) encode the genomic blueprints of spatiotemporal
gene expression programs enabling highly specialized cell functions. Using single-cell …

A computational tool (H-MAGMA) for improved prediction of brain-disorder risk genes by incorporating brain chromatin interaction profiles

NYA Sey, B Hu, W Mah, H Fauni, JC McAfee… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Most risk variants for brain disorders identified by genome-wide association studies reside in
the noncoding genome, which makes deciphering biological mechanisms difficult. A …

Multitissue H3K27ac profiling of GTEx samples links epigenomic variation to disease

L Hou, X Xiong, Y Park, C Boix, B James, N Sun, L He… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic variants associated with complex traits are primarily noncoding, and their effects on
gene-regulatory activity remain largely uncharacterized. To address this, we profile …

Genetic analyses support the contribution of mRNA N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification to human disease heritability

Z Zhang, K Luo, Z Zou, M Qiu, J Tian, L Sieh, H Shi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) plays important roles in regulating messenger RNA
processing. Despite rapid progress in this field, little is known about the genetic …

Mapping the genetic architecture of human traits to cell types in the kidney identifies mechanisms of disease and potential treatments

X Sheng, Y Guan, Z Ma, J Wu, H Liu, C Qiu, S Vitale… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The functional interpretation of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is challenging due
to the cell-type-dependent influences of genetic variants. Here, we generated …