Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Genome-wide compendium and functional assessment of in vivo heart enhancers

  • Diane E. Dickel,
  • Iros Barozzi,
  • Yiwen Zhu,
  • Yoko Fukuda-Yuzawa,
  • Marco Osterwalder,
  • Brandon J. Mannion,
  • Dalit May,
  • Cailyn H. Spurrell,
  • Ingrid Plajzer-Frick,
  • Catherine S. Pickle,
  • Elizabeth Lee,
  • Tyler H. Garvin,
  • Momoe Kato,
  • Jennifer A. Akiyama,
  • Veena Afzal,
  • Ah Young Lee,
  • David U. Gorkin,
  • Bing Ren,
  • Edward M. Rubin,
  • Axel Visel,
  • Len A. Pennacchio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12923
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Identification of non-coding variants has outstripped our ability to annotate and interpret them. Dickel et al. present a compendium of over 80,000 putative human heart enhancers and demonstrate that two conserved enhancers are required for proper cardiac function in mice.