Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: their importance, discovery, and future challenges

RJ Schmitz, E Grotewold, M Stam - The plant cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of cis-regulatory DNA sequences and how they
function to coordinate responses to developmental and environmental cues is of paramount …

Molecular quantitative trait loci

F Aguet, K Alasoo, YI Li, A Battle, HK Im… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding functional effects of genetic variants is one of the key challenges in human
genetics, as much of disease-associated variation is located in non-coding regions with …

Genome-wide association study identifies Sjögren's risk loci with functional implications in immune and glandular cells

B Khatri, KL Tessneer, A Rasmussen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sjögren's disease is a complex autoimmune disease with twelve established susceptibility
loci. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies ten novel genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-infiltrated activated B cells suppress liver metastasis of colorectal cancers

Y Xu, Z Wei, M Feng, D Zhu, S Mei, Z Wu, Q Feng… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
More than 40% of patients with late-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) develop liver metastasis
(LM). Which immune cells play important roles in CRC-LM and contribute to the difference …

Beyond knockouts: fine‐tuning regulation of gene expression in plants with CRISPR‐Cas‐based promoter editing

X Tang, Y Zhang - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The CRISPR‐Cas‐based genome editing field in plants is expanding rapidly. Editing plant
promoters to obtain cis‐regulatory alleles with altered expression levels or patterns of target …

Single-cell eQTL analysis of activated T cell subsets reveals activation and cell type–dependent effects of disease-risk variants

BJ Schmiedel, C Gonzalez-Colin, V Fajardo… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The impact of genetic variants on cells challenged in biologically relevant contexts has not
been fully explored. Here, we activated CD4+ T cells from 89 healthy donors and performed …

High-resolution genome topology of human retina uncovers super enhancer-promoter interactions at tissue-specific and multifactorial disease loci

C Marchal, N Singh, Z Batz, J Advani, C Jaeger… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chromatin organization and enhancer-promoter contacts establish unique spatiotemporal
gene expression patterns in distinct cell types. Non-coding genetic variants can influence …

Three-dimensional genome organization in immune cell fate and function

S Cuartero, G Stik, R Stadhouders - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Immune cell development and activation demand the precise and coordinated control of
transcriptional programmes. Three-dimensional (3D) organization of the genome has …

Recent advances in understanding the genetic basis of systemic lupus erythematosus

E Ha, SC Bae, K Kim - Seminars in immunopathology, 2022 - Springer
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a polygenic chronic autoimmune disease leading to
multiple organ damage. A large heritability of up to 66% is estimated in SLE, with roughly …

CHD7 regulates bone-fat balance by suppressing PPAR-γ signaling

C Liu, Q **ong, Q Li, W Lin, S Jiang, D Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 7 (CHD7), an ATP-dependent eukaryotic
chromatin remodeling enzyme, is essential for the development of organs. The mutation of …