2024
Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements
Pratt H, Andrews G, Shedd N, Phalke N, Li T, Pampari A, Jensen M, Wen C, Consortium P, Gandal M, Geschwind D, Gerstein M, Moore J, Kundaje A, Colubri A, Weng Z. Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements. Science Advances 2024, 10: eadj4452. PMID: 38781344, PMCID: PMC11114231, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4452.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpigenetic dataCell-type-specific gene regulationCis-regulatory elementsComprehensive atlasGenetic variants associated with psychiatric disordersLineage-specific transcription factorsBrain cell typesMammalian elementsPsychENCODE ConsortiumNoncoding regionsEvolutionary historyGene regulationRegulatory elementsSequence mutationsTranscription factorsSequence syntaxRegulatory informationPrimate-specific sequencesBinding sitesHuman traitsCell typesFunctional implicationsPsychiatric disordersSequenceFetal brain development
2021
Factorbook: an updated catalog of transcription factor motifs and candidate regulatory motif sites
Pratt H, Andrews G, Phalke N, Huey J, Purcaro M, van der Velde A, Moore J, Weng Z. Factorbook: an updated catalog of transcription factor motifs and candidate regulatory motif sites. Nucleic Acids Research 2021, 50: d141-d149. PMID: 34755879, PMCID: PMC8728199, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab1039.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChIP-seqHT-SELEXTranscription factorsDNA-binding transcription factorsHT-SELEX experimentsChIP-seq dataChIP-seq experimentsAnnotation of variantsTF binding sitesCis-regulatory elementsTranscriptional regulatory proteinsDatabase of annotationsIntegrated analysisENCODE projectHuman genomeMotif modelsTrait heritabilityRegulatory proteinsBinding specificityGene expressionMotifBinding sitesCell typesRegulatory effectsComprehensive collection