CRISPRi screens reveal a DNA methylation-mediated 3D genome dependent causal mechanism in prostate cancer

oleh: Musaddeque Ahmed, Fraser Soares, Ji-Han Xia, Yue Yang, Jing Li, Haiyang Guo, Peiran Su, Yijun Tian, Hyung Joo Lee, Miranda Wang, Nayeema Akhtar, Kathleen E. Houlahan, Almudena Bosch, Stanley Zhou, Parisa Mazrooei, Junjie T. Hua, Sujun Chen, Jessica Petricca, Yong Zeng, Alastair Davies, Michael Fraser, David A. Quigley, Felix Y. Feng, Paul C. Boutros, Mathieu Lupien, Amina Zoubeidi, Liang Wang, Martin J. Walsh, Ting Wang, Shancheng Ren, Gong-Hong Wei, Housheng Hansen He

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01

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Prostate cancer risk-associated SNPs are enriched in noncoding CREs. Here the authors perform CRISPRi screens of CREs in prostate cancer cell lines to describe a causal mechanism synergistically driven by a risk SNP and DNA methylation-mediated 3D genome architecture.