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 …

Single-cell eQTL mapping identifies cell type–specific genetic control of autoimmune disease

S Yazar, J Alquicira-Hernandez, K Wing, A Senabouth… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human immune system displays substantial variation between individuals, leading to
differences in susceptibility to autoimmune disease. We present single-cell RNA sequencing …

Epigenetics, DNA organization, and inflammatory bowel disease

G Ray, MS Longworth - Inflammatory bowel diseases, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are chronic inflammatory disorders affecting the
gastrointestinal tract. The incidence of IBD is increasing, with more cases occurring in …

Transcriptional and epigenomic profiling identifies YAP signaling as a key regulator of intestinal epithelium maturation

LM Pikkupeura, RB Bressan, J Guiu, Y Chen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
During intestinal organogenesis, equipotent epithelial progenitors mature into
phenotypically distinct stem cells that are responsible for lifelong maintenance of the tissue …

iEnhancer-5Step: identifying enhancers using hidden information of DNA sequences via Chou's 5-step rule and word embedding

NQK Le, EKY Yapp, QT Ho, N Nagasundaram… - Analytical …, 2019 - Elsevier
An enhancer is a short (50–1500bp) region of DNA that plays an important role in gene
expression and the production of RNA and proteins. Genetic variation in enhancers has …

Integrative machine learning framework for the identification of cell-specific enhancers from the human genome

S Basith, MM Hasan, G Lee, L Wei… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Enhancers are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fragments which when bound by transcription
factors enhance the transcription of related genes. Due to its sporadic distribution and …

Prediction of the cell-type-specific transcription of non-coding RNAs from genome sequences via machine learning

M Koido, CC Hon, S Koyama, H Kawaji… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene transcription is regulated through complex mechanisms involving non-coding RNAs
(ncRNAs). As the transcription of ncRNAs, especially of enhancer RNAs, is often low and …

iEnhancer-ECNN: identifying enhancers and their strength using ensembles of convolutional neural networks

QH Nguyen, TH Nguyen-Vo, NQK Le, TTT Do… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Enhancers are non-coding DNA fragments which are crucial in gene regulation
(eg transcription and translation). Having high locational variation and free scattering in 98 …

piEnPred: a bi-layered discriminative model for enhancers and their subtypes via novel cascade multi-level subset feature selection algorithm

ZU Khan, D Pi, S Yao, A Nawaz, F Ali, S Ali - Frontiers of Computer …, 2021 - Springer
Enhancers are short DNA cis-elements that can be bound by proteins (activators) to
increase the possibility that transcription of a particular gene will occur. The Enhancers …

Prioritization of autoimmune disease-associated genetic variants that perturb regulatory element activity in T cells

K Mouri, MH Guo, CG de Boer, MM Lissner, IA Harten… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have uncovered hundreds of autoimmune
disease-associated loci; however, the causal genetic variants within each locus are mostly …