Prostate cancer (PrCa) incidence and severity vary across ancestries; men of African ancestry (AA) are more likely to be diagnosed and die from PrCa than those of European ancestry (EA). Current polygenic risk scores, even from multi-ancestry GWAS, d...
Accurate protein expression in human immune cells is essential for appropriate cellular function. The mechanisms that define protein abundance are complex and are executed on transcriptional, posttranscriptional, and posttranslational levels. Here, w...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 4, 2025
Super-enhancers (SEs) are cis-regulatory elements that play crucial roles in gene expression and are implicated in diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. Traditional identification methods rely on ChIP-seq experiments, which are costly and time-con...
Investigating the temporal dynamics of gene expression is crucial for understanding gene regulation across various biological processes. Using the Fluorescent Timer protein, the Timer-of-cell-kinetics-and-activity system enables analysis of transcrip...
Current opinion in genetics & development
Jun 20, 2025
Lineage-specific genetic variants play a key role in evolutionary divergence, particularly through changes in cis-regulatory elements that fine-tune gene expression. Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) provide a powerful approach to characteri...
Identifying cell-type-specific enhancers is critical for developing genetic tools to study the mammalian brain. We organized the "Brain Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) Challenge: Predicting Functional Cell Type-Specific Enhancers from Cross-Sp...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
May 7, 2025
Enhancers are short DNA fragments capable of significantly increase the frequency of gene transcription. They often exert their effects on targeted genes over long distances, either in cis or in trans configurations. Identifying enhancers poses a cha...
Enhancers are short DNA fragments that enhance gene expression by binding to transcription factors. Accurately identifying enhancers and their strength is crucial for understanding gene regulation mechanisms. However, traditional enhancer sequencing ...
Three-dimensional (3D) genome dynamics are crucial for cellular functions and disease. However, real-time, live-cell DNA visualization remains challenging, as existing methods are often confined to repetitive regions, suffer from low resolution, or r...
An enhancer is a specific DNA sequence typically located within a gene at upstream or downstream position and serves as a pivotal element in the regulation of eukaryotic gene transcription. Therefore, the recognition of enhancers is highly significan...
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