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Tissue-specific regulatory circuits reveal variable modular perturbations across complex diseases

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Marbach, Daniel, Lamparter, David, Quon, Gerald, Kellis, Manolis, Kutalik, Zoltán, Bergmann, Sven·2016·Nature Methods

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Mapping perturbed molecular circuits that underlie complex diseases remains a great challenge. We developed a comprehensive resource of 394 cell type- and tissue-specific gene regulatory networks for human, each specifying the genome-wide connectivity among transcription factors, enhancers, promoters and genes. Integration with 37 genome-wide association studies (GWASs) showed that disease-associated genetic variants--including variants that do not reach genome-wide significance--often perturb regulatory modules that are highly specific to disease-relevant cell types or tissues. Our resource opens the door to systematic analysis of regulatory programs across hundreds of human cell types and tissues (http://regulatorycircuits.org).

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  • Marbach et al. overlaid GWAS results onto tissue-specific regulatory networks and identified modules enriched for genetic variants in each disease.

    “They then overlaid the GWAS results of diseases onto tissue-specific regulatory networks in the disease-relevant tissues and identified modules particularly enriched for genetic variants in each disease.”

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  • Marbach and colleagues combined genomics, epigenomics, and transcriptomics to elucidate tissue-specific regulatory circuits in 394 human cell types.

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Authors
Marbach, D., Lamparter, D., Quon, G., Kellis, M., Kutalik, Z., & Bergmann, S.
Affiliations
  • SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
  • Broad Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Marbach, Daniel
Venue
Nature Methods
Published
2016-03-07
Volume
13
Issue
4
Pages
366-370
ISSN
  • 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-7105
OpenAlex
W2295275561
Cited by
326
References
86
Citations by year
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FWCI
20.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Methods (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • IRIS (submittedVersion)
  • SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • PMC
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (51RTP0_151019, 143914, 151019, 31003A, 152724, 310030)
  • Fondation Leenaards
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH109978)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG008155, R01HG004037)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM113708)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
gene regulatory networks, tissue-specific gene regulation, cell type-specific gene regulation, complex diseases, disease-associated variants, regulatory modules, transcription factors, enhancers, promoter, genome-wide association study, regulatory circuits
MeSH terms
Brain Diseases, Humans, Organ Specificity, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Transcription Factors, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Cell Lineage, Computational Biology, Protein Interaction Mapping, Gene Regulatory Networks, Genome-Wide Association Study, Epigenomics

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