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A map of the cis-regulatory sequences in the mouse genome

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Shen, Yin, Yue, Feng, McCleary, David F., Ye, Zhen, Edsall, Lee, Kuan, Samantha, Wagner, Ulrich, Dixon, Jesse +3 more·2012·Nature

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The laboratory mouse is the most widely used mammalian model organism in biomedical research. The 2.6 × 10(9) bases of the mouse genome possess a high degree of conservation with the human genome, so a thorough annotation of the mouse genome will be of significant value to understanding the function of the human genome. So far, most of the functional sequences in the mouse genome have yet to be found, and the cis-regulatory sequences in particular are still poorly annotated. Comparative genomics has been a powerful tool for the discovery of these sequences, but on its own it cannot resolve their temporal and spatial functions. Recently, ChIP-Seq has been developed to identify cis-regulatory elements in the genomes of several organisms including humans, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans. Here we apply the same experimental approach to a diverse set of 19 tissues and cell types in the mouse to produce a map of nearly 300,000 murine cis-regulatory sequences. The annotated sequences add up to 11% of the mouse genome, and include more than 70% of conserved non-coding sequences. We define tissue-specific enhancers and identify potential transcription factors regulating gene expression in each tissue or cell type. Finally, we show that much of the mouse genome is organized into domains of coordinately regulated enhancers and promoters. Our results provide a resource for the annotation of functional elements in the mammalian genome and for the study of mechanisms regulating tissue-specific gene expression.

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Authors
Shen, Y., Yue, F., McCleary, D. F., Ye, Z., Edsall, L., Kuan, S., Wagner, U., Dixon, J., Lee, L., Lobanenkov, V. V., & Ren, B.
Affiliations
  • Ludwig Cancer Research (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Ren, Bing
Venue
Nature
Published
2012-07-01
Volume
488
Issue
7409
Pages
116-120
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2042930277
Cited by
1,361
References
29
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FWCI
59.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG003991)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007198)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
cis-regulatory sequences, mouse genome, enhancers, promoter, CTCF binding sites, tissue-specific gene expression, transcription factor binding, conserved non-coding elements, genome annotation, ChIP-seq
MeSH terms
Acetylation, Animals, Chromatin, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Gene Expression Regulation, Male, Methylation, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Organ Specificity, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Transcription Factors, Genome, Conserved Sequence, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Evolution, Molecular, Physical Chromosome Mapping, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Mice, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Nucleotide Motifs

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