2024
Massively parallel characterization of regulatory elements in the developing human cortex
Deng C, Whalen S, Steyert M, Ziffra R, Przytycki P, Inoue F, Pereira D, Capauto D, Norton S, Vaccarino F, Pollen A, Nowakowski T, Ahituv N, Pollard K, Akbarian S, Abyzov A, Ahituv N, Arasappan D, Almagro Armenteros J, Beliveau B, Bendl J, Berretta S, Bharadwaj R, Bhattacharya A, Bicks L, Brennand K, Capauto D, Champagne F, Chatterjee T, Chatzinakos C, Chen Y, Chen H, Cheng Y, Cheng L, Chess A, Chien J, Chu Z, Clarke D, Clement A, Collado-Torres L, Cooper G, Crawford G, Dai R, Daskalakis N, Davila-Velderrain J, Deep-Soboslay A, Deng C, DiPietro C, Dracheva S, Drusinsky S, Duan Z, Duong D, Dursun C, Eagles N, Edelstein J, Emani P, Fullard J, Galani K, Galeev T, Gandal M, Gaynor S, Gerstein M, Geschwind D, Girdhar K, Goes F, Greenleaf W, Grundman J, Guo H, Guo Q, Gupta C, Hadas Y, Hallmayer J, Han X, Haroutunian V, Hawken N, He C, Henry E, Hicks S, Ho M, Ho L, Hoffman G, Huang Y, Huuki-Myers L, Hwang A, Hyde T, Iatrou A, Inoue F, Jajoo A, Jensen M, Jiang L, Jin P, Jin T, Jops C, Jourdon A, Kawaguchi R, Kellis M, Khullar S, Kleinman J, Kleopoulos S, Kozlenkov A, Kriegstein A, Kundaje A, Kundu S, Lee C, Lee D, Li J, Li M, Lin X, Liu S, Liu J, Liu J, Liu C, Liu S, Lou S, Loupe J, Lu D, Ma S, Ma L, Margolis M, Mariani J, Martinowich K, Maynard K, Mazariegos S, Meng R, Myers R, Micallef C, Mikhailova T, Ming G, Mohammadi S, Monte E, Montgomery K, Moore J, Moran J, Mukamel E, Nairn A, Nemeroff C, Ni P, Norton S, Nowakowski T, Omberg L, Page S, Park S, Patowary A, Pattni R, Pertea G, Peters M, Phalke N, Pinto D, Pjanic M, Pochareddy S, Pollard K, Pollen A, Pratt H, Przytycki P, Purmann C, Qin Z, Qu P, Quintero D, Raj T, Rajagopalan A, Reach S, Reimonn T, Ressler K, Ross D, Roussos P, Rozowsky J, Ruth M, Ruzicka W, Sanders S, Schneider J, Scuderi S, Sebra R, Sestan N, Seyfried N, Shao Z, Shedd N, Shieh A, Shin J, Skarica M, Snijders C, Song H, State M, Stein J, Steyert M, Subburaju S, Sudhof T, Snyder M, Tao R, Therrien K, Tsai L, Urban A, Vaccarino F, van Bakel H, Vo D, Voloudakis G, Wamsley B, Wang T, Wang S, Wang D, Wang Y, Warrell J, Wei Y, Weimer A, Weinberger D, Wen C, Weng Z, Whalen S, White K, Willsey A, Won H, Wong W, Wu H, Wu F, Wuchty S, Wylie D, Xu S, Yap C, Zeng B, Zhang P, Zhang C, Zhang B, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Ziffra R, Zeier Z, Zintel T. Massively parallel characterization of regulatory elements in the developing human cortex. Science 2024, 384: eadh0559. PMID: 38781390, DOI: 10.1126/science.adh0559.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCerebral CortexChromatinDeep LearningEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansNeurogenesisNeuronsOrganoidsRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidConceptsGene regulatory elementsRegulatory elementsRegulation of enhancer activityCharacterization of regulatory elementsCis-regulatory activityNeuronal developmentPrimary cellsEnhanced activityGene regulationHuman neuronal developmentNucleotide changesEnhancer sequencesSequence basisUpstream regulatorComprehensive catalogHuman cellsDeveloping cortexSequenceVariantsOrganoidsCellsCerebral organoidsCortexHuman cortexNucleotide
2022
Population-level variation in enhancer expression identifies disease mechanisms in the human brain
Dong P, Hoffman G, Apontes P, Bendl J, Rahman S, Fernando M, Zeng B, Vicari J, Zhang W, Girdhar K, Townsley K, Misir R, Brennand K, Haroutunian V, Voloudakis G, Fullard J, Roussos P. Population-level variation in enhancer expression identifies disease mechanisms in the human brain. Nature Genetics 2022, 54: 1493-1503. PMID: 36163279, PMCID: PMC9547946, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01170-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBrainEnhancer Elements, GeneticGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansQuantitative Trait LociRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidTranscriptomeConceptsExpression quantitative trait lociPopulation-level variationTranscriptome-wide association studyQuantitative trait lociSpecific transcriptomeTrait lociTrait heritabilitySpecific transcriptionEnhancer functionGenetic mechanismsTarget genesAssociation studiesDisease locusNeuropsychiatric diseasesRisk variantsGenesRobust expressionTranscriptomeFunctional interpretationDisease mechanismsEnhancerDiseased statesLociHuman brainBrain samples
2014
A Role for Noncoding Variation in Schizophrenia
Roussos P, Mitchell A, Voloudakis G, Fullard J, Pothula V, Tsang J, Stahl E, Georgakopoulos A, Ruderfer D, Charney A, Okada Y, Siminovitch K, Worthington J, Padyukov L, Klareskog L, Gregersen P, Plenge R, Raychaudhuri S, Fromer M, Purcell S, Brennand K, Robakis N, Schadt E, Akbarian S, Sklar P. A Role for Noncoding Variation in Schizophrenia. Cell Reports 2014, 9: 1417-1429. PMID: 25453756, PMCID: PMC4255904, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsArthritis, RheumatoidCalcium Channels, L-TypeDatabases, GeneticDNA, IntergenicEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression RegulationGenetic LociGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMolecular Sequence AnnotationOrgan SpecificityPolymorphism, Single NucleotidePromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingRisk FactorsSchizophreniaConceptsExpression quantitative trait lociGenome-wide significant lociCommon variant lociQuantitative trait lociPluripotent stem cell-derived neuronsDistal regulatory elementsStem cell-derived neuronsPotential physical interactionsCell-derived neuronsRegulatory element sequencesPotential functional roleGenome architectureChromosomal loopingTranscriptional regulationFunctional annotationTrait lociSignificant lociNoncoding SNPsRegulatory elementsNoncoding variationsRisk lociVariant lociUnknown functionFunctional linkElement sequences