TY - JOUR T1 - Temporal analysis of enhancers during mouse brain development reveals dynamic regulatory function and identifies novel regulators of cerebellar development JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2021.09.28.461416 SP - 2021.09.28.461416 AU - Miguel Ramirez AU - Yuliya Badayeva AU - Joanna Yeung AU - Joshua Wu AU - Erin Yang AU - FANTOM 5 Consortium AU - Brett Trost AU - Stephen W. Scherer AU - Daniel Goldowitz Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/09/29/2021.09.28.461416.abstract N2 - In this study, we identified active enhancers in the mouse cerebellum at embryonic and postnatal stages establishing the first catalog of enhancers active during embryonic cerebellum development. The majority of cerebellar enhancers have dynamic activity between embryonic and postnatal development. Cerebellar enhancers were enriched for neural transcription factor binding sites with temporally specific expression. Putative gene targets displayed spatially restricted expression patterns, indicating cell-type specific expression regulation. Functional analysis of target genes indicated that enhancers regulate processes spanning several developmental epochs such as specification, differentiation and maturation. We use these analyses to discover one novel regulator and one novel marker of cerebellar development: Bhlhe22 and Pax3, respectively. We identified an enrichment of de novo mutations and variants associated with autism spectrum disorder in cerebellar enhancers. Our study provides insight into the dynamics of gene expression regulation by enhancers in the developing brain and delivers a rich resource of novel gene-enhancer associations providing a basis for future in-depth studies in the cerebellum.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -