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
2014
Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species
Gerstein MB, Rozowsky J, Yan KK, Wang D, Cheng C, Brown JB, Davis CA, Hillier L, Sisu C, Li JJ, Pei B, Harmanci AO, Duff MO, Djebali S, Alexander RP, Alver BH, Auerbach R, Bell K, Bickel PJ, Boeck ME, Boley NP, Booth BW, Cherbas L, Cherbas P, Di C, Dobin A, Drenkow J, Ewing B, Fang G, Fastuca M, Feingold EA, Frankish A, Gao G, Good PJ, Guigó R, Hammonds A, Harrow J, Hoskins RA, Howald C, Hu L, Huang H, Hubbard TJ, Huynh C, Jha S, Kasper D, Kato M, Kaufman TC, Kitchen RR, Ladewig E, Lagarde J, Lai E, Leng J, Lu Z, MacCoss M, May G, McWhirter R, Merrihew G, Miller DM, Mortazavi A, Murad R, Oliver B, Olson S, Park PJ, Pazin MJ, Perrimon N, Pervouchine D, Reinke V, Reymond A, Robinson G, Samsonova A, Saunders GI, Schlesinger F, Sethi A, Slack FJ, Spencer WC, Stoiber MH, Strasbourger P, Tanzer A, Thompson OA, Wan KH, Wang G, Wang H, Watkins KL, Wen J, Wen K, Xue C, Yang L, Yip K, Zaleski C, Zhang Y, Zheng H, Brenner SE, Graveley BR, Celniker SE, Gingeras TR, Waterston R. Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species. Nature 2014, 512: 445-448. PMID: 25164755, PMCID: PMC4155737, DOI: 10.1038/nature13424.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansChromatinCluster AnalysisDrosophila melanogasterGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHistonesHumansLarvaModels, GeneticMolecular Sequence AnnotationPromoter Regions, GeneticPupaRNA, UntranslatedSequence Analysis, RNATranscriptomeComparative analysis of pseudogenes across three phyla
Sisu C, Pei B, Leng J, Frankish A, Zhang Y, Balasubramanian S, Harte R, Wang D, Rutenberg-Schoenberg M, Clark W, Diekhans M, Rozowsky J, Hubbard T, Harrow J, Gerstein MB. Comparative analysis of pseudogenes across three phyla. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2014, 111: 13361-13366. PMID: 25157146, PMCID: PMC4169933, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407293111.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome evolutionLarge effective population sizesNumerous duplication eventsProtein-coding genesNumber of pseudogenesEffective population sizePotential regulatory roleDuplication eventsSelective sweepsGene familyHuman pseudogenesPrimate lineageDifferent remodeling processesPseudogenesUpstream sequencesHigh deletion ratePromoter activityBiochemical activityRegulatory rolePopulation sizePartial activityGenomePhylaDeletion rateLineages
2010
Integrative Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome by the modENCODE Project
Gerstein MB, Lu ZJ, Van Nostrand EL, Cheng C, Arshinoff BI, Liu T, Yip KY, Robilotto R, Rechtsteiner A, Ikegami K, Alves P, Chateigner A, Perry M, Morris M, Auerbach RK, Feng X, Leng J, Vielle A, Niu W, Rhrissorrakrai K, Agarwal A, Alexander RP, Barber G, Brdlik CM, Brennan J, Brouillet JJ, Carr A, Cheung MS, Clawson H, Contrino S, Dannenberg LO, Dernburg AF, Desai A, Dick L, Dosé AC, Du J, Egelhofer T, Ercan S, Euskirchen G, Ewing B, Feingold EA, Gassmann R, Good PJ, Green P, Gullier F, Gutwein M, Guyer MS, Habegger L, Han T, Henikoff JG, Henz SR, Hinrichs A, Holster H, Hyman T, Iniguez AL, Janette J, Jensen M, Kato M, Kent WJ, Kephart E, Khivansara V, Khurana E, Kim JK, Kolasinska-Zwierz P, Lai EC, Latorre I, Leahey A, Lewis S, Lloyd P, Lochovsky L, Lowdon RF, Lubling Y, Lyne R, MacCoss M, Mackowiak SD, Mangone M, McKay S, Mecenas D, Merrihew G, Miller DM, Muroyama A, Murray JI, Ooi SL, Pham H, Phippen T, Preston EA, Rajewsky N, Rätsch G, Rosenbaum H, Rozowsky J, Rutherford K, Ruzanov P, Sarov M, Sasidharan R, Sboner A, Scheid P, Segal E, Shin H, Shou C, Slack FJ, Slightam C, Smith R, Spencer WC, Stinson EO, Taing S, Takasaki T, Vafeados D, Voronina K, Wang G, Washington NL, Whittle CM, Wu B, Yan KK, Zeller G, Zha Z, Zhong M, Zhou X, Consortium M, Ahringer J, Strome S, Gunsalus KC, Micklem G, Liu XS, Reinke V, Kim SK, Hillier LW, Henikoff S, Piano F, Snyder M, Stein L, Lieb JD, Waterston RH. Integrative Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome by the modENCODE Project. Science 2010, 330: 1775-1787. PMID: 21177976, PMCID: PMC3142569, DOI: 10.1126/science.1196914.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsChromatinChromosomesComputational BiologyConserved SequenceEvolution, MolecularGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGene Regulatory NetworksGenes, HelminthGenome, HelminthGenomicsHistonesModels, GeneticMolecular Sequence AnnotationRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidRNA, HelminthRNA, UntranslatedTranscription FactorsConceptsAccurate gene modelsGenome-wide identificationTranscription factor-binding sitesKey model organismTranscription factor bindingAlternative splice formsFactor-binding sitesChromatin compositionModENCODE projectChromatin organizationHistone modificationsGenome annotationModel organismsNematode CaenorhabditisChromosomal locationPutative functionsGene modelsTranscriptome profilingChromosome armsTranscription factorsNoncoding RNAsFactor bindingSplice formsX chromosomeGene expression
2006
The Real Life of Pseudogenes
Gerstein M, Zheng D. The Real Life of Pseudogenes. Scientific American 2006, 295: 48-55. PMID: 16866288, DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0806-48.Peer-Reviewed Original Research