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Title: Dynamic enhancer landscapes in human craniofacial development

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Bern (Switzerland)
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
  6. USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  7. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Israel)
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Medical University of Vienna (Austria); Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)
  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States)
  11. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). School of Medicine
  12. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). School of Medicine; Univ. of Freiburg (Germany)
  13. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom)
  14. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Octant Inc., Emeryville, CA (United States)
  15. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  16. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)

The genetic basis of human facial variation and craniofacial birth defects remains poorly understood. Distant-acting transcriptional enhancers control the fine-tuned spatiotemporal expression of genes during critical stages of craniofacial development. However, a lack of accurate maps of the genomic locations and cell type-resolved activities of craniofacial enhancers prevents their systematic exploration in human genetics studies. Here, we combine histone modification, chromatin accessibility, and gene expression profiling of human craniofacial development with single-cell analyses of the developing mouse face to define the regulatory landscape of facial development at tissue- and single cell-resolution. We provide temporal activity profiles for 14,000 human developmental craniofacial enhancers. We find that 56% of human craniofacial enhancers share chromatin accessibility in the mouse and we provide cell population- and embryonic stage-resolved predictions of their in vivo activity. Taken together, our data provide an expansive resource for genetic and developmental studies of human craniofacial development.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
2426867
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 15; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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