Integrative analysis of haplotype-resolved epigenomes across human tissues

  • Danny Leung
  • , Inkyung Jung
  • , Nisha Rajagopal
  • , Anthony Schmitt
  • , Siddarth Selvaraj
  • , Ah Young Lee
  • , Chia An Yen
  • , Shin Lin
  • , Yiing Lin
  • , Yunjiang Qiu
  • , Wei Xie
  • , Feng Yue
  • , Manoj Hariharan
  • , Pradipta Ray
  • , Samantha Kuan
  • , Lee Edsall
  • , Hongbo Yang
  • , Neil C. Chi
  • , Michael Q. Zhang
  • , Joseph R. Ecker
  • Bing Ren

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Abstract

Allelic differences between the two homologous chromosomes can affect the propensity of inheritance in humans; however, the extent of such differences in the human genome has yet to be fully explored. Here we delineate allelic chromatin modifications and transcriptomes among a broad set of human tissues, enabled by a chromosome-spanning haplotype reconstruction strategy. The resulting large collection of haplotype-resolved epigenomic maps reveals extensive allelic biases in both chromatin state and transcription, which show considerable variation across tissues and between individuals, and allow us to investigate cis-regulatory relationships between genes and their control sequences. Analyses of histone modification maps also uncover intriguing characteristics of cis-regulatory elements and tissue-restricted activities of repetitive elements. The rich data sets described here will enhance our understanding of the mechanisms by which cis-regulatory elements control gene expression programs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)350-354
Number of pages5
JournalNature
Volume518
Issue number7539
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 19 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General

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