2024
Transcriptional determinism and stochasticity contribute to the complexity of autism-associated SHANK family genes
Lu X, Ni P, Suarez-Meade P, Ma Y, Forrest E, Wang G, Wang Y, Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Gerstein M, Jiang Y. Transcriptional determinism and stochasticity contribute to the complexity of autism-associated SHANK family genes. Cell Reports 2024, 43: 114376. PMID: 38900637, PMCID: PMC11328446, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114376.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSHANK family genesFamily genesLong-read sequencingCDNA captureTranscript structureDeleterious variantsGenomic studiesAbundant mRNAsTranscriptional dysregulationStochastic transcriptionStudies of neuropsychiatric disordersCausative genesTranscriptional profilesTranscriptional determinantsTranscriptomePostmortem brain tissueAutism spectrum disorderShank3 transcriptsTranscriptionGenesGenomeSHANK3Neuropsychiatric disordersSpectrum disorderAutism modelLess-is-more: selecting transcription factor binding regions informative for motif inference
Xu J, Gao J, Ni P, Gerstein M. Less-is-more: selecting transcription factor binding regions informative for motif inference. Nucleic Acids Research 2024, 52: e20-e20. PMID: 38214231, PMCID: PMC10899791, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad1240.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChIP-seq signalsChIP-seqGenomic regionsMotif inferenceTranscription factorsTargeting motifTranscription factor binding regionsChIP-seq datasetsNon-specific interactionsC-scoreDNA motifsBinding regionMotifTranscriptionTF signalingAccurate inferenceStronger signalSignalDNARegionTargetInteraction
2014
Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species
Gerstein MB, Rozowsky J, Yan KK, Wang D, Cheng C, Brown JB, Davis CA, Hillier L, Sisu C, Li JJ, Pei B, Harmanci AO, Duff MO, Djebali S, Alexander RP, Alver BH, Auerbach R, Bell K, Bickel PJ, Boeck ME, Boley NP, Booth BW, Cherbas L, Cherbas P, Di C, Dobin A, Drenkow J, Ewing B, Fang G, Fastuca M, Feingold EA, Frankish A, Gao G, Good PJ, Guigó R, Hammonds A, Harrow J, Hoskins RA, Howald C, Hu L, Huang H, Hubbard TJ, Huynh C, Jha S, Kasper D, Kato M, Kaufman TC, Kitchen RR, Ladewig E, Lagarde J, Lai E, Leng J, Lu Z, MacCoss M, May G, McWhirter R, Merrihew G, Miller DM, Mortazavi A, Murad R, Oliver B, Olson S, Park PJ, Pazin MJ, Perrimon N, Pervouchine D, Reinke V, Reymond A, Robinson G, Samsonova A, Saunders GI, Schlesinger F, Sethi A, Slack FJ, Spencer WC, Stoiber MH, Strasbourger P, Tanzer A, Thompson OA, Wan KH, Wang G, Wang H, Watkins KL, Wen J, Wen K, Xue C, Yang L, Yip K, Zaleski C, Zhang Y, Zheng H, Brenner SE, Graveley BR, Celniker SE, Gingeras TR, Waterston R. Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species. Nature 2014, 512: 445-448. PMID: 25164755, PMCID: PMC4155737, DOI: 10.1038/nature13424.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansChromatinCluster AnalysisDrosophila melanogasterGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHistonesHumansLarvaModels, GeneticMolecular Sequence AnnotationPromoter Regions, GeneticPupaRNA, UntranslatedSequence Analysis, RNATranscriptome