Chromatin-state discovery and genome annotation with ChromHMM

J Ernst, M Kellis - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Noncoding DNA regions have central roles in human biology, evolution, and disease.
ChromHMM helps to annotate the noncoding genome using epigenomic information across …

Function and information content of DNA methylation

D Schübeler - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Cytosine methylation is a DNA modification generally associated with transcriptional
silencing. Factors that regulate methylation have been linked to human disease, yet how …

Engineering triangular carbon quantum dots with unprecedented narrow bandwidth emission for multicolored LEDs

F Yuan, T Yuan, L Sui, Z Wang, Z **, Y Li, X Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have emerged as promising materials for optoelectronic
applications on account of carbon's intrinsic merits of high stability, low cost, and …

Comprehensive functional genomic resource and integrative model for the human brain

D Wang, S Liu, J Warrell, H Won, X Shi, FCP Navarro… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Strong genetic associations have been found for a number of psychiatric
disorders. However, understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms remains …

An environment-dependent transcriptional network specifies human microglia identity

D Gosselin, D Skola, NG Coufal, IR Holtman… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Microglia play essential roles in central nervous system homeostasis and
influence diverse aspects of neuronal function, including refinement of synaptic networks …

Chromatin architecture reorganization during stem cell differentiation

JR Dixon, I Jung, S Selvaraj, Y Shen… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Higher-order chromatin structure is emerging as an important regulator of gene expression.
Although dynamic chromatin structures have been identified in the genome, the full scope of …

The IBD interactome: an integrated view of aetiology, pathogenesis and therapy

HSP De Souza, C Fiocchi, D Iliopoulos - … Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are prototypical complex diseases characterized by
chronic and heterogeneous manifestations, induced by interacting environmental, genomic …

The role of regulatory variation in complex traits and disease

FW Albert, L Kruglyak - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
We are in a phase of unprecedented progress in identifying genetic loci that cause variation
in traits ranging from growth and fitness in simple organisms to disease in humans …

Methods of integrating data to uncover genotype–phenotype interactions

MD Ritchie, ER Holzinger, R Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Recent technological advances have expanded the breadth of available omic data, from
whole-genome sequencing data, to extensive transcriptomic, methylomic and metabolomic …

The selection and function of cell type-specific enhancers

S Heinz, CE Romanoski, C Benner… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The human body contains several hundred cell types, all of which share the same genome.
In metazoans, much of the regulatory code that drives cell type-specific gene expression is …