Asst Prof @UCIrvine. Genetics, Genomics, Gene Regulation, Development. Training: Postdoc @BerkeleyLab and PhD @IMPvienna. Views are my own.
Nov 20, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
How important is Enhancer—Promoter physical proximity for developmental gene activation? Happy to share our work led by postdoc Zhuoxin Chen @Czx17943830 where we systematically address this question in vivo. (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Enhancers are thought to interact with their promoters via physical proximity, yet the importance of this proximity for enhancer function remains unclear. Some E-P loops are cell-type-specific, others are stable or even display reduced proximity upon activation. (2/n)
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A major challenge in human genomics is how to systematically assess the phenotypic impact of enhancer variants identified in human genetics studies. Mouse transgenics is a powerful tool for this purpose but has limited throughput, high cost, and so-called position effects (2/12)