Henry Pratt
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Microbiome; Non-Communicable Diseases; Immunology; Genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics; Bioinformatics
Publications
2024
Cross-ancestry atlas of gene, isoform, and splicing regulation in the developing human brain
Wen C, Margolis M, Dai R, Zhang P, Przytycki P, Vo D, Bhattacharya A, Matoba N, Tang M, Jiao C, Kim M, Tsai E, Hoh C, Aygün N, Walker R, Chatzinakos C, Clarke D, Pratt H, Peters M, Gerstein M, Daskalakis N, Weng Z, Jaffe A, Kleinman J, Hyde T, Weinberger D, Bray N, Sestan N, Geschwind D, Roeder K, Gusev A, Pasaniuc B, Stein J, Love M, Pollard K, Liu C, Gandal M, Akbarian S, Abyzov A, Ahituv N, Arasappan D, Almagro Armenteros J, Beliveau B, Bendl J, Berretta S, Bharadwaj R, 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, Clement A, Collado-Torres L, Cooper G, Crawford G, 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, Gaynor S, 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, Iatrou A, Inoue F, Jajoo A, Jensen M, Jiang L, Jin P, Jin T, Jops C, Jourdon A, Kawaguchi R, Kellis M, 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 S, Lou S, Loupe J, Lu D, Ma S, Ma L, 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, Phalke N, Pinto D, Pjanic M, Pochareddy S, Pollen A, 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, Seyfried N, Shao Z, Shedd N, Shieh A, Shin J, Skarica M, Snijders C, Song H, State M, Steyert M, Subburaju S, Sudhof T, Snyder M, Tao R, Therrien K, Tsai L, Urban A, Vaccarino F, van Bakel H, Voloudakis G, Wamsley B, Wang T, Wang S, Wang D, Wang Y, Warrell J, Wei Y, Weimer A, 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 C, Zhang B, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Ziffra R, Zeier Z, Zintel T. Cross-ancestry atlas of gene, isoform, and splicing regulation in the developing human brain. Science 2024, 384: eadh0829. PMID: 38781368, DOI: 10.1126/science.adh0829.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesGenome-wide association study lociSplicing quantitative trait lociQuantitative trait lociSplicing regulationCross-ancestryTrait lociAssociation studiesRegulatory elementsCellular contextHuman brainTranscriptome regulationCoexpression networkRisk genesAutism spectrum disorderGenesCellular heterogeneityComprehensive landscapeSpectrum disorderIsoformsSplicingIncreased cellular heterogeneityLociNeuronal maturationRegulationUsing 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
2023
Beyond genome-wide association studies: Investigating the role of noncoding regulatory elements in primary sclerosing cholangitis
Pratt H, Wu T, Elhajjajy S, Zhou J, Fitzgerald K, Fazzio T, Weng Z, Pratt D. Beyond genome-wide association studies: Investigating the role of noncoding regulatory elements in primary sclerosing cholangitis. Hepatology Communications 2023, 7: e0242. PMID: 37756045, PMCID: PMC10531193, DOI: 10.1097/hc9.0000000000000242.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesRegulatory element activityRegulatory elementsElement activityAssociation studiesCell type-specific regulatory elementsPrimary sclerosing cholangitisNoncoding regions of DNANoncoding risk variantsRegulatory element functionNoncoding regulatory elementsPrimary sclerosing cholangitis patientsRegions of DNANoncoding variantsATAC-seqRisk lociEpigenomic datasetsNoncoding regionsRNA-seqEpigenomic studiesRisk variantsSclerosing cholangitisT cellsT cell responses to antigen stimulationPeripheral CD4+ T cellsThe EN-TEx resource of multi-tissue personal epigenomes & variant-impact models
Rozowsky J, Gao J, Borsari B, Yang Y, Galeev T, Gürsoy G, Epstein C, Xiong K, Xu J, Li T, Liu J, Yu K, Berthel A, Chen Z, Navarro F, Sun M, Wright J, Chang J, Cameron C, Shoresh N, Gaskell E, Drenkow J, Adrian J, Aganezov S, Aguet F, Balderrama-Gutierrez G, Banskota S, Corona G, Chee S, Chhetri S, Cortez Martins G, Danyko C, Davis C, Farid D, Farrell N, Gabdank I, Gofin Y, Gorkin D, Gu M, Hecht V, Hitz B, Issner R, Jiang Y, Kirsche M, Kong X, Lam B, Li S, Li B, Li X, Lin K, Luo R, Mackiewicz M, Meng R, Moore J, Mudge J, Nelson N, Nusbaum C, Popov I, Pratt H, Qiu Y, Ramakrishnan S, Raymond J, Salichos L, Scavelli A, Schreiber J, Sedlazeck F, See L, Sherman R, Shi X, Shi M, Sloan C, Strattan J, Tan Z, Tanaka F, Vlasova A, Wang J, Werner J, Williams B, Xu M, Yan C, Yu L, Zaleski C, Zhang J, Ardlie K, Cherry J, Mendenhall E, Noble W, Weng Z, Levine M, Dobin A, Wold B, Mortazavi A, Ren B, Gillis J, Myers R, Snyder M, Choudhary J, Milosavljevic A, Schatz M, Bernstein B, Guigó R, Gingeras T, Gerstein M. The EN-TEx resource of multi-tissue personal epigenomes & variant-impact models. Cell 2023, 186: 1493-1511.e40. PMID: 37001506, PMCID: PMC10074325, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.02.018.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Building integrative functional maps of gene regulation
Xu J, Pratt HE, Moore JE, Gerstein MB, Weng Z. Building integrative functional maps of gene regulation. Human Molecular Genetics 2022, 31: r114-r122. PMID: 36083269, PMCID: PMC9585680, DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac195.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsGene regulationRegulatory mapSame genetic informationNon-coding genesSuch regulatory elementsEvolutionary analysisHuman genomeRegulatory elementsGenetic informationGene expressionType diversityRegulatory roleGenomeBase pairsIndividual cellsFunctional assaysSpecific functionsRegulationCellsFunctional mapsGenesDNADiversityCopiesSequenceMafB, WDR77, and ß-catenin interact with each other and have similar genome association profiles
He L, Gao M, Pratt H, Weng Z, Struhl K. MafB, WDR77, and ß-catenin interact with each other and have similar genome association profiles. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0264799. PMID: 35482762, PMCID: PMC9049301, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264799.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAuthor Correction: Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes
Moore J, Purcaro M, Pratt H, Epstein C, Shoresh N, Adrian J, Kawli T, Davis C, Dobin A, Kaul R, Halow J, Van Nostrand E, Freese P, Gorkin D, Shen Y, He Y, Mackiewicz M, Pauli-Behn F, Williams B, Mortazavi A, Keller C, Zhang X, Elhajjajy S, Huey J, Dickel D, Snetkova V, Wei X, Wang X, Rivera-Mulia J, Rozowsky J, Zhang J, Chhetri S, Zhang J, Victorsen A, White K, Visel A, Yeo G, Burge C, Lécuyer E, Gilbert D, Dekker J, Rinn J, Mendenhall E, Ecker J, Kellis M, Klein R, Noble W, Kundaje A, Guigó R, Farnham P, Cherry J, Myers R, Ren B, Graveley B, Gerstein M, Pennacchio L, Snyder M, Bernstein B, Wold B, Hardison R, Gingeras T, Stamatoyannopoulos J, Weng Z. Author Correction: Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes. Nature 2022, 605: e3-e3. PMID: 35474001, PMCID: PMC9095460, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04226-3.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2021
Integration of high-resolution promoter profiling assays reveals novel, cell type-specific transcription start sites across 115 human cell and tissue types
Moore J, Zhang X, Elhajjajy S, Fan K, Pratt H, Reese F, Mortazavi A, Weng Z. Integration of high-resolution promoter profiling assays reveals novel, cell type-specific transcription start sites across 115 human cell and tissue types. Genome Research 2021, 32: gr.275723.121. PMID: 34949670, PMCID: PMC8805725, DOI: 10.1101/gr.275723.121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscription start site annotationTranscription start siteGenome-wide association studiesStart siteAccurate transcription start siteCell type-specific usageMapping of promotersPaired-end informationPaired-end readsAnalysis of gene expressionTranscriptomic data setsGENCODE genesRNA annotationGWAS genesPaired-endGenomic positionsGene collectionTissue typesAssociation studiesTranscriptional regulationTranscription assaysBiological communitiesGene expressionHuman diseasesHuman cellsFactorbook: 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 collectionYAP and TAZ are transcriptional co-activators of AP-1 proteins and STAT3 during breast cellular transformation
He L, Pratt H, Gao M, Wei F, Weng Z, Struhl K. YAP and TAZ are transcriptional co-activators of AP-1 proteins and STAT3 during breast cellular transformation. ELife 2021, 10: e67312. PMID: 34463254, PMCID: PMC8463077, DOI: 10.7554/elife.67312.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCell Line, TumorCell Transformation, NeoplasticDatabases, GeneticFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsProtein BindingProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsSignal TransductionSTAT3 Transcription FactorTranscription Factor AP-1Transcription FactorsTranscriptional ActivationTranscriptional Coactivator with PDZ-Binding Motif ProteinsTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsYAP-Signaling ProteinsConceptsTranscriptional co-activatorAP-1 proteinsAP-1Cellular transformationTarget siteNon-overlapping genesStimulated transcriptional activityAssociated with poor survival of breast cancer patientsPoor survival of breast cancer patientsSTAT3 motifTEAD proteinsSequence motifsGene classesWW domainEpigenetic switchTaz paralogTAZ-specificTranscriptional activityTranscription factorsTEADYAP/TAZSTAT3MotifTAZJunB
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