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ArticleNature communications2024

Regulatory transposable elements in the encyclopedia of DNA elements.

Alan Y Du, Jason D Chobirko, Xiaoyu Zhuo, Cédric Feschotte, Ting Wang

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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47 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alan Y Du *Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3223-9705
Jason D Chobirko *Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8495-9152
Xiaoyu Zhuo *Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1400-5609
Cédric FeschotteDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. cf458@cornell.edu.
Ting WangDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. twang@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6800-242X

Funding

The WashU-UCSC-EBI Human Genome Reference Center."U41HG010972 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Ting Wang · 2019 to 2026
$24.9M
Identification and Characterization of Cell-Specific Transposable Elements Implicated on Alzheimer Disease and Healthy AgingR01AG078964 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Carlos Cruchaga, Bess Frost · 2022 to 2026
$9.0M
INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING GRANT IN GENOMIC SCIENCET32HG000045 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL R BRENT, Barak A Cohen · 1997 to 2026
$8.4M
THE WASHU TARGET ENVIRONMENTAL EPIGENOMICS DATA COORDINATION CENTERU24ES026699 · NIEHS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, TING · 2016 to 2021
$5.2M
WashU Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (SMaHT) Program Organizational CenterU24NS132103 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI FULTON, LUCINDA, LAWSON, HEATHER A. · 2023 to 2025
$4.5M
Genomic and Physiological Impact of Transposable Elements.R35GM122550 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI Cedric Feschotte · 2017 to 2026
$4.4M
The role of retrotransposons in female reproductive agingR01AG078958 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Lin He, Ting Wang · 2022 to 2026
$3.0M
DECODING THE IMPACT OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS ON GENE REGULATIONR01HG007175 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, TING · 2014 to 2021
$2.7M
Connecting transposable elements and regulatory innovation using ENCODE dataU01HG009391 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI COHEN, BARAK A, FESCHOTTE, CEDRIC · 2017 to 2021
$2.4M
CHARTING THE EPIGENOMIC LANDSCAPE OF HUMAN TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTSR01ES024992 · NIEHS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, TING · 2014 to 2015
$342k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG007175NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG000045NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG009391NIA NIH HHS R01 AG078958NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES024992NIEHS NIH HHS U24 ES026699NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122550NINDS NIH HHS U24 NS132103U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01HG007175U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) U01HG009391U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) T32HG000045U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) 2R35GM122550-06
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) comprise ~50% of our genome, but knowledge of how TEs affect genome evolution remains incomplete. Leveraging ENCODE4 data, we provide the most comprehensive study to date of TE contributions to the regulatory genome. We find 236,181 (~25%) human candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) are TE-derived, with over 90% lineage-specific since the human-mouse split, accounting for 8-36% of lineage-specific cCREs. Except for SINEs, cCRE-associated transcription factor (TF) motifs in TEs are derived from ancestral TE sequence more than expected by chance. We show that TEs may adopt similar regulatory activities of elements near their integration site. Since human-mouse divergence, TEs have contributed 3-56% of TF binding site turnover events across 30 examined TFs. Finally, TE-derived cCREs are similar to non-TE cCREs in terms of MPRA activity and GWAS variant enrichment. Overall, our results substantiate the notion that TEs have played an important role in shaping the human regulatory genome.

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DNA Transposable ElementsTranscription FactorsAnimalsBinding SitesEvolution, MolecularGenome, HumanHumansMiceRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidDNA Transposable ElementsTranscription Factors

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PMID39217141
PMCPMC11366022

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