[HTML][HTML] The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome

…, ED Nguyen, H Qu, AP Reynolds, V Roach, A Safi… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are markers of regulatory DNA and have underpinned
the discovery of all classes of cis-regulatory elements including enhancers, promoters, …

Highly specific epigenome editing by CRISPR-Cas9 repressors for silencing of distal regulatory elements

PI Thakore, AM D'ippolito, L Song, A Safi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Epigenome editing with the CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic
repeats)-Cas9 platform is a promising technology for modulating gene expression to direct cell …

CRISPR–Cas9 epigenome editing enables high-throughput screening for functional regulatory elements in the human genome

TS Klann, JB Black, M Chellappan, A Safi, L Song… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Large genome-mapping consortia and thousands of genome-wide association studies have
identified non-protein-coding elements in the genome as having a central role in various …

Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights

…, M Kousi, HK Finucane, Y Reshef, L Song, A Safi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 100 risk loci for schizophrenia,
but the causal mechanisms remain largely unknown. We performed a transcriptome-wide …

[PDF][PDF] Distinct properties of cell-type-specific and shared transcription factor binding sites

J Gertz, D Savic, KE Varley, EC Partridge, A Safi, P Jain… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Most human transcription factors bind a small subset of potential genomic sites and often
use different subsets in different cell types. To identify mechanisms that govern cell-type-…

Patterns of regulatory activity across diverse human cell types predict tissue identity, transcription factor binding, and long-range interactions

NC Sheffield, RE Thurman, L Song, A Safi… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
Regulatory elements recruit transcription factors that modulate gene expression distinctly
across cell types, but the relationships among these remains elusive. To address this, we …

Transcriptome and epigenome landscape of human cortical development modeled in organoids

…, T Roychowdhury, F Liu, S Pochareddy, Y Shin, A Safi… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The human cerebral cortex has undergone an extraordinary increase in
size and complexity during mammalian evolution. Cortical cell lineages are specified in the …

[PDF][PDF] Direct GR binding sites potentiate clusters of TF binding across the human genome

…, AM D'Ippolito, IC McDowell, WH Majoros, A Safi… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) binds the human genome at >10,000 sites but only regulates
the expression of hundreds of genes. To determine the functional effect of each site, we …

Genome-wide specificity of DNA binding, gene regulation, and chromatin remodeling by TALE-and CRISPR/Cas9-based transcriptional activators

…, CM Vockley, P Bledsoe, L Song, A Safi… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Genome engineering technologies based on the CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE systems are
enabling new approaches in science and biotechnology. However, the specificity of these tools …

Regulation of chromatin accessibility and Zic binding at enhancers in the developing cerebellum

…, MT Biegler, MG Yang, CM Vockley, A Safi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
To identify chromatin mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, we characterized chromatin
accessibility and gene expression in cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs) of the developing …