Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Epigenomic charting and functional annotation of risk loci in renal cell carcinoma

  • Amin H. Nassar,
  • Sarah Abou Alaiwi,
  • Sylvan C. Baca,
  • Elio Adib,
  • Rosario I. Corona,
  • Ji-Heui Seo,
  • Marcos A. S. Fonseca,
  • Sandor Spisak,
  • Talal El Zarif,
  • Viktoria Tisza,
  • David A. Braun,
  • Heng Du,
  • Monica He,
  • Abdallah Flaifel,
  • Michel Alchoueiry,
  • Thomas Denize,
  • Sayed G. Matar,
  • Andres Acosta,
  • Sachet Shukla,
  • Yue Hou,
  • John Steinharter,
  • Gabrielle Bouchard,
  • Jacob E. Berchuck,
  • Edward O’Connor,
  • Connor Bell,
  • Pier Vitale Nuzzo,
  • Gwo-Shu Mary Lee,
  • Sabina Signoretti,
  • Michelle S. Hirsch,
  • Mark Pomerantz,
  • Elizabeth Henske,
  • Alexander Gusev,
  • Kate Lawrenson,
  • Toni K. Choueiri,
  • David J. Kwiatkowski,
  • Matthew L. Freedman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35833-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The epigenomic landscape of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains to be explored. Here, integrative epigenomic analysis of primary human RCC samples and RCC GWAS risk SNPs identifies transcription-factor specific subtypes and enrichment of risk variants in allelically-imbalanced peaks.