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Damien Downes

Oxford University
Verified email at ndcls.ox.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] Identification of LZTFL1 as a candidate effector gene at a COVID-19 risk locus

DJ Downes, AR Cross, P Hua, N Roberts… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) disease (COVID-19)
pandemic has caused millions of deaths worldwide. Genome-wide association studies …

[PDF][PDF] A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity

…, L Dib, J Docker, C Dold, T Dong, D Downes… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Treatment of severe COVID-19 is currently limited by clinical heterogeneity and incomplete
description of specific immune biomarkers. We present here a comprehensive multi-omic …

Defining genome architecture at base-pair resolution

…, LLP Hanssen, LD Hentges, N Crump, DJ Downes… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
In higher eukaryotes, many genes are regulated by enhancers that are 10 4 –10 6 base
pairs (bp) away from the promoter. Enhancers contain transcription-factor-binding sites (which …

Tissue-specific CTCF–cohesin-mediated chromatin architecture delimits enhancer interactions and function in vivo

…, AM Oudelaar, D Biggs, C Preece, DJ Downes… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
The genome is organized via CTCF–cohesin-binding sites, which partition chromosomes into
1–5 megabase (Mb) topologically associated domains (TADs), and further into smaller sub-…

DeepC: predicting 3D genome folding using megabase-scale transfer learning

R Schwessinger, M Gosden, D Downes, RC Brown… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Predicting the impact of noncoding genetic variation requires interpreting it in the context of
three-dimensional genome architecture. We have developed deepC, a transfer-learning-…

Single-allele chromatin interactions identify regulatory hubs in dynamic compartmentalized domains

…, R Schwessinger, Y Liu, JM Brown, DJ Downes… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The promoters of mammalian genes are commonly regulated by multiple distal enhancers,
which physically interact within discrete chromatin domains. How such domains form and …

[HTML][HTML] DOT1L inhibition reveals a distinct subset of enhancers dependent on H3K79 methylation

…, JM Telenius, AM Oudelaar, DJ Downes… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Enhancer elements are a key regulatory feature of many important genes. Several general
features including the presence of specific histone modifications are used to demarcate …

[PDF][PDF] Absolute quantification of transcription factors reveals principles of gene regulation in erythropoiesis

…, P Shannon, WJR Longabaugh, DJ Downes… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Dynamic cellular processes such as differentiation are driven by changes in the abundances
of transcription factors (TFs). However, despite years of studies, our knowledge about the …

[HTML][HTML] Editing an α-globin enhancer in primary human hematopoietic stem cells as a treatment for β-thalassemia

…, M Badat, L Quek, K Clark, P Hublitz, D Downes… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
β-Thalassemia is one of the most common inherited anemias, with no effective cure for most
patients. The pathophysiology reflects an imbalance between α- and β-globin chains with …

[HTML][HTML] Determining chromatin architecture with Micro Capture-C

JC Hamley, H Li, N Denny, D Downes, JOJ Davies - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Micro Capture-C (MCC) is a chromatin conformation capture (3C) method for visualizing
reproducible three-dimensional contacts of specified regions of the genome at base pair …