Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of human skin melanogenesis and pigmentation

C Serre, V Busuttil, JM Botto - International journal of cosmetic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In human skin, melanogenesis is a tightly regulated process. Indeed, several extracellular
signals are transduced via dedicated signalling pathways and mostly converge to MITF, a …

The recurrent architecture of tumour initiation, progression and drug sensitivity

A Califano, MJ Alvarez - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Recent studies across multiple tumour types are starting to reveal a recurrent regulatory
architecture in which genomic alterations cluster upstream of functional master regulator …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

Transcription of MERVL retrotransposons is required for preimplantation embryo development

A Sakashita, T Kitano, H Ishizu, Y Guo, H Masuda… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) is a critical postfertilization step that promotes totipotency
and allows different cell fates to emerge in the develo** embryo. MERVL (murine …

miRNet 2.0: network-based visual analytics for miRNA functional analysis and systems biology

L Chang, G Zhou, O Soufan, J **a - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract miRNet is an easy-to-use, web-based platform designed to help elucidate
microRNA (miRNA) functions by integrating users' data with existing knowledge via network …

NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

R Browaeys, W Saelens, Y Saeys - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Computational methods that model how gene expression of a cell is influenced by
interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet (https://github. com/saeyslab/nichenetr), a …

Divergent transcriptional regulation of astrocyte reactivity across disorders

JE Burda, TM O'Shea, Y Ao, KB Suresh, S Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes respond to injury and disease in the central nervous system with reactive
changes that influence the outcome of the disorder,,–. These changes include differentially …

Single-cell transcriptional diversity is a hallmark of developmental potential

GS Gulati, SS Sikandar, DJ Wesche, A Manjunath… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a powerful approach for reconstructing cellular
differentiation trajectories. However, inferring both the state and direction of differentiation is …

ChEA3: transcription factor enrichment analysis by orthogonal omics integration

AB Keenan, D Torre, A Lachmann… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the transcription factors (TFs) responsible for observed changes in gene
expression is an important step in understanding gene regulatory networks. ChIP-X …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale exome sequencing study implicates both developmental and functional changes in the neurobiology of autism

FK Satterstrom, JA Kosmicki, J Wang, MS Breen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We present the largest exome sequencing study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to date
(n= 35,584 total samples, 11,986 with ASD). Using an enhanced analytical framework to …