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Enhancers in disease: molecular basis and emerging treatment strategies.

Annique Claringbould, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2021 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 11, pp 1060-1073
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In this article, the authors review how these enhancer disruptions have recently been implicated in congenital disorders, cancers, and common complex diseases and address the implications for diagnosis and treatment, and show that enhancer-targeting drugs and gene editing approaches show great therapeutic promise for a range of diseases.
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This article is published in Trends in Molecular Medicine.The article was published on 2021-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Enhancer.

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Toward transcriptomics as a primary tool for rare disease investigation

TL;DR: It is speculated that as advances in computational methods and emerging experimental techniques overcome both developmental and cell type specificity, there will be broadening use of RNA sequencing and multiomics in rare disease diagnosis and delivery of precision health.
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Translating osteoarthritis genetics research: challenging times ahead

TL;DR: In this paper , the potential for OA genetic data to translate is discussed, including whether the developmental origin of OA will limit the application of genetic risk data for disease-modification purposes.
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Current challenges in understanding the role of enhancers in disease.

TL;DR: The role of enhancers in disease etiology and highlighting opportunities and directions for future studies, aiming to disentangle the molecular basis of enhanceropathies is discussed in this paper .
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Enhancer-gene specificity in development and disease.

TL;DR: Recent insights into the factors controlling enhancer specificity are discussed, including the genetic composition of enhancer and promoters, the linear and 3D distance between enhancers and their target genes, and cell-type specific chromatin landscapes.
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Multiscale 3D genome organization underlies ILC2 ontogenesis and allergic airway inflammation

TL;DR: Henao-Mejia et al. as mentioned in this paper carried out an integrative analysis of the 3D genome structure, chromatin accessibility and gene expression in mature ILCs and revealed that the local 3D configuration of the genome is rewired specifically at loci associated with ILC biology to promote their development and functional differentiation.
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A 3D Map of the Human Genome at Kilobase Resolution Reveals Principles of Chromatin Looping

TL;DR: In situ Hi-C is used to probe the 3D architecture of genomes, constructing haploid and diploid maps of nine cell types, identifying ∼10,000 loops that frequently link promoters and enhancers, correlate with gene activation, and show conservation across cell types and species.
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Topological domains in mammalian genomes identified by analysis of chromatin interactions

TL;DR: It is found that the boundaries of topological domains are enriched for the insulator binding protein CTCF, housekeeping genes, transfer RNAs and short interspersed element (SINE) retrotransposons, indicating that these factors may have a role in establishing the topological domain structure of the genome.
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Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

Anshul Kundaje, +123 more
- 19 Feb 2015 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that disease- and trait-associated genetic variants are enriched in tissue-specific epigenomic marks, revealing biologically relevant cell types for diverse human traits, and providing a resource for interpreting the molecular basis of human disease.
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