Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Chromatin accessibility landscapes of skin cells in systemic sclerosis nominate dendritic cells in disease pathogenesis

  • Qian Liu,
  • Lisa C. Zaba,
  • Ansuman T. Satpathy,
  • Michelle Longmire,
  • Wen Zhang,
  • Kun Li,
  • Jeffrey Granja,
  • Chuang Guo,
  • Jun Lin,
  • Rui Li,
  • Karen Tolentino,
  • Gabriela Kania,
  • Oliver Distler,
  • David Fiorentino,
  • Lorinda Chung,
  • Kun Qu,
  • Howard Y. Chang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19702-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a disease with manifestation in the skin and immune etiology, but the pathogenic immune cell types remain unidentified. Here the authors use ATAC-seq to profile chromatin landscapes of skin samples from patients with SSc to implicate skin dendritic cells for having the strongest disease-associated epigenetic changes.