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Chris Benner - Verified email at ucsd.edu - Cited by 39559
Christian Benner - Verified email at helsinki.fi - Cited by 5283

The selection and function of cell type-specific enhancers

S Heinz, CE Romanoski, C Benner… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The human body contains several hundred cell types, all of which share the same genome.
In metazoans, much of the regulatory code that drives cell type-specific gene expression is …

[PDF][PDF] Simple combinations of lineage-determining transcription factors prime cis-regulatory elements required for macrophage and B cell identities

S Heinz, C Benner, N Spann, E Bertolino, YC Lin… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
Genome-scale studies have revealed extensive, cell type-specific colocalization of
transcription factors, but the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon remain poorly …

Metascape provides a biologist-oriented resource for the analysis of systems-level datasets

Y Zhou, B Zhou, L Pache, M Chang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A critical component in the interpretation of systems-level studies is the inference of enriched
biological pathways and protein complexes contained within OMICs datasets. Successful …

Exome sequencing and analysis of 454,787 UK Biobank participants

JD Backman, AH Li, A Marcketta, D Sun, J Mbatchou… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A major goal in human genetics is to use natural variation to understand the phenotypic
consequences of altering each protein-coding gene in the genome. Here we used exome …

FINEMAP: efficient variable selection using summary data from genome-wide association studies

C Benner, CCA Spencer, AS Havulinna… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The goal of fine-mapping in genomic regions associated with complex diseases
and traits is to identify causal variants that point to molecular mechanisms behind the …

Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drugs through large-scale compound repurposing

L Riva, S Yuan, X Yin, L Martin-Sancho, N Matsunaga… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019
has triggered an ongoing global pandemic of the severe pneumonia-like disease …

[PDF][PDF] Transcription elongation can affect genome 3D structure

S Heinz, L Texari, MGB Hayes, M Urbanowski… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
How transcription affects genome 3D organization is not well understood. We found that
during influenza A (IAV) infection, rampant transcription rapidly reorganizes host cell …

Reprogramming transcription by distinct classes of enhancers functionally defined by eRNA

D Wang, I Garcia-Bassets, C Benner, W Li, X Su… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes are populated with thousands of transcriptional enhancers that
orchestrate cell-type-specific gene expression programs,,,, but how those enhancers are …

Myofibroblasts revert to an inactive phenotype during regression of liver fibrosis

T Kisseleva, M Cong, YH Paik… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Myofibroblasts produce the fibrous scar in hepatic fibrosis. In the carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)
model of liver fibrosis, quiescent hepatic stellate cells (HSC) are activated to become …

Computationally efficient whole-genome regression for quantitative and binary traits

J Mbatchou, L Barnard, J Backman, A Marcketta… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association analysis of cohorts with thousands of phenotypes is
computationally expensive, particularly when accounting for sample relatedness or …