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A Single-Cell Atlas of In Vivo Mammalian Chromatin Accessibility

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Cusanovich, Darren A., Hill, Andrew J., Aghamirzaie, Delasa, Daza, Riza M., Pliner, Hannah A., Berletch, Joel B., Filippova, Galina N., Huang, Xingfan +9 more·2018·Cell

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We applied a combinatorial indexing assay, sci-ATAC-seq, to profile genome-wide chromatin accessibility in ∼100,000 single cells from 13 adult mouse tissues. We identify 85 distinct patterns of chromatin accessibility, most of which can be assigned to cell types, and ∼400,000 differentially accessible elements. We use these data to link regulatory elements to their target genes, to define the transcription factor grammar specifying each cell type, and to discover in vivo correlates of heterogeneity in accessibility within cell types. We develop a technique for mapping single cell gene expression data to single-cell chromatin accessibility data, facilitating the comparison of atlases. By intersecting mouse chromatin accessibility with human genome-wide association summary statistics, we identify cell-type-specific enrichments of the heritability signal for hundreds of complex traits. These data define the in vivo landscape of the regulatory genome for common mammalian cell types at single-cell resolution.

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  • Single-cell ATAC-seq has enabled in vivo profiling of accessible chromatin at the scale of a whole organism.

    “For example, single-cell ATAC-seq has enabled the in vivo profiling of accessible chromatin at the scale of a whole organism82,83.160,161.”
  • CellOracle has assembled a base GRN from a mouse scATAC-seq atlas to support GRN inference without requiring sample-specific scATAC-seq datasets.

    “To support GRN inference without requiring sample-specific scATAC-seq datasets, we have assembled a base GRN from a mouse scATAC-seq atlas13.”
  • Single-cell DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility studies have begun to reveal cell-type-specific genome-wide epigenetic landscapes and gene regulatory networks in the brain.

    “Similarly, single-cell DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility studies have begun to reveal cell-type-specific genome-wide epigenetic landscapes and gene regulatory networks in the brain12–15.”
  • Many types of features have been used to quantify snATAC data, including gene promoters, putative enhancers, or combinations of regions sharing common DNA sequence motifs.

    “Many types of features have been used to quantify snATAC data, including gene promoters, putative enhancers, or combinations of regions sharing common DNA sequence motifs (Bravo González-Blas et al., 2019; Cusanovich et al., 2018; Fang et al., 2019; Schep et al., 2017).”

    From Single-Cell Sequencing of Brain Cell Transcriptomes and Epigenomes (2021) · cites this paper as Cusanovich et al., 2018

  • A largely consistent pattern was observed when comparing the clustering with latent semantic index clustering of the dscATAC-seq data.

    “and we observed a largely consistent pattern when compared to dimensionality reduction and clustering using the latent semantic index (LSI) of our dscATAC-seq data as has been previously performed27,28 (Supplementary Fig. 4e).”

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Cusanovich, D. A., Hill, A. J., Aghamirzaie, D., Daza, R. M., Pliner, H. A., Berletch, J. B., Filippova, G. N., Huang, X., Christiansen, L., DeWitt, W. S., Lee, C., Regalado, S. G., Read, D. F., Steemers, F. J., Disteche, C. M., Trapnell, C., & Shendure, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Illumina (United States) (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Trapnell, Cole
  • Shendure, Jay
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-08
Volume
174
Issue
5
Pages
1309-1324.e18
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2887910040
Cited by
759
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 51 · 2025: 73 · 2024: 103 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 116 · 2021: 131 · 2020: 106 · 2019: 70 · 2018: 14
FWCI
29.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • W. M. Keck Foundation
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (5T32HG000035-23)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32HL007828)
  • National Institutes of Health (R01HG006283, DP2HD088158, R01GM046883, DP1HG007811)
  • National Science Foundation
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
Keywords
chromatin accessibility, single-cell chromatin accessibility, combinatorial indexing, cell types, regulatory elements, cellular heterogeneity, genome-wide association summary statistics, mouse tissues, regulatory genome
MeSH terms
Animals, Chromatin, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Male, Mammals, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Transcription Factors, Genome, Human, Cluster Analysis, Epigenesis, Genetic, Mice, Genome-Wide Association Study, Epigenomics, Single-Cell Analysis

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