Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

An autoimmune pleiotropic SNP modulates IRF5 alternative promoter usage through ZBTB3-mediated chromatin looping

  • Zhao Wang,
  • Qian Liang,
  • Xinyi Qian,
  • Bolang Hu,
  • Zhanye Zheng,
  • Jianhua Wang,
  • Yuelin Hu,
  • Zhengkai Bao,
  • Ke Zhao,
  • Yao Zhou,
  • Xiangling Feng,
  • Xianfu Yi,
  • Jin Li,
  • Jiandang Shi,
  • Zhe Liu,
  • Jihui Hao,
  • Kexin Chen,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Pak Chung Sham,
  • Wange Lu,
  • Xiaoyan Wang,
  • Weihong Song,
  • Mulin Jun Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36897-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Here the authors used an evidence-based strategy to prioritize causal pleiotropic variants of autoimmune diseases, and revealed that rs4728142 modulates aberrant IRF5 alternative promoter usage by ZBTB3-mediated chromatin looping.