2024
Machine-guided design of cell-type-targeting cis-regulatory elements
Gosai S, Castro R, Fuentes N, Butts J, Mouri K, Alasoadura M, Kales S, Nguyen T, Noche R, Rao A, Joy M, Sabeti P, Reilly S, Tewhey R. Machine-guided design of cell-type-targeting cis-regulatory elements. Nature 2024, 634: 1211-1220. PMID: 39443793, PMCID: PMC11525185, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08070-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCis-regulatory elementsCell typesActivation of off-target cellsGene expressionCell type-specific expressionSynthetic cis-regulatory elementsCell-type specificityHuman genomeUnique cell typeTissue identityBiotechnological applicationsTissue specificityIn vitro validationCell linesCre activitySequenceGenesNatural sequenceDevelopmental timeExpressionCellsGenomeTested in vivoMotifOff-target cellsMulticenter integrated analysis of noncoding CRISPRi screens
Yao D, Tycko J, Oh J, Bounds L, Gosai S, Lataniotis L, Mackay-Smith A, Doughty B, Gabdank I, Schmidt H, Guerrero-Altamirano T, Siklenka K, Guo K, White A, Youngworth I, Andreeva K, Ren X, Barrera A, Luo Y, Yardımcı G, Tewhey R, Kundaje A, Greenleaf W, Sabeti P, Leslie C, Pritykin Y, Moore J, Beer M, Gersbach C, Reddy T, Shen Y, Engreitz J, Bassik M, Reilly S. Multicenter integrated analysis of noncoding CRISPRi screens. Nature Methods 2024, 21: 723-734. PMID: 38504114, PMCID: PMC11009116, DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02216-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCis-regulatory elementsCRISPR interferenceSingle guide RNADetection of cis-regulatory elementsGuide RNAsCandidate cis-regulatory elementsNoncoding cis-regulatory elementsDNA strand biasGene regulatory landscapeCis-regulatory mechanismsNoncoding genomeNoncoding elementsTranscribed regionsStrand biasHuman cell linesCRISPR screensFunctional characterizationTranscriptional effectsGenomeK562 cellsRegulatory landscapeCell linesConsortium effortCharacterization CenterRNA
2021
Genome-wide functional screen of 3′UTR variants uncovers causal variants for human disease and evolution
Griesemer D, Xue JR, Reilly SK, Ulirsch JC, Kukreja K, Davis JR, Kanai M, Yang DK, Butts JC, Guney MH, Luban J, Montgomery SB, Finucane HK, Novina CD, Tewhey R, Sabeti PC. Genome-wide functional screen of 3′UTR variants uncovers causal variants for human disease and evolution. Cell 2021, 184: 5247-5260.e19. PMID: 34534445, PMCID: PMC8487971, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.025.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesCausal variantsEvolutionary adaptationGenome-wide functional screenDiverse molecular mechanismsHuman evolutionary adaptationBase-pair resolutionParallel reporterHuman cell linesMiRNA sitesTranscriptional changesFunctional screenAllelic replacementSimple sequenceMolecular mechanismsAssociation studiesRich elementsPair resolutionHuman diseasesPhenotype associationsHuman traitsUntranslated region variantsGenetic variantsRegulatory activityCell lines
2020
Prioritizing disease and trait causal variants at the TNFAIP3 locus using functional and genomic features
Ray JP, de Boer CG, Fulco CP, Lareau CA, Kanai M, Ulirsch JC, Tewhey R, Ludwig LS, Reilly SK, Bergman DT, Engreitz JM, Issner R, Finucane HK, Lander ES, Regev A, Hacohen N. Prioritizing disease and trait causal variants at the TNFAIP3 locus using functional and genomic features. Nature Communications 2020, 11: 1237. PMID: 32144282, PMCID: PMC7060350, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15022-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChromatin accessible regionsGenome-wide association studiesDisease-associated lociGenetic variantsCausal genetic variantsDisease-associated variantsComplex traitsGenetic variationRegulatory regionsGenomic featuresCausal variantsRegulatory potentialAssociation studiesReporter activityDisease-associated haplotypeLinkage disequilibriumCommon variantsTight linkage disequilibriumExperimental assaysCell linesImmune cell linesLociAccessible regionsTNFAIP3TNFAIP3 locus