hReg-CNCC reconstructs a regulatory network in human cranial neural crest cells and annotates variants in a developmental context

Abstract

Zhanying Feng et al. present hReg-CNCC, a high-quality gene regulatory network for human cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs) constructed by consensus optimization modeling. It may be useful in interpreting genetic variants involved in embryonic development by linking the cis-regulatory sequences in this network with GWAS SNPs, disease risk loci, and evolutionarily-conserved regions of the genome.