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ArticleNucleic acids research2020

Specific histone modifications associate with alternative exon selection during mammalian development.

Qiwen Hu, Casey S Greene, Elizabeth A Heller

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  7. Alternative splicing in addiction.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qiwen HuDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Casey S GreeneDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Elizabeth A HellerDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Translational Therapeutics (United States) · US

Funding

Network-based algorithms for target identification and drug repositioning from genetic associationsR01HG010067 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GREENE, CASEY S · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
Chromatin-mediated alternative splicing in reward pathophysiologyDP1DA044250 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HELLER, ELIZABETH A · 2017 to 2021
$2.6M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010067NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA044250
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative splicing (AS) is frequent during early mouse embryonic development. Specific histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) have been shown to regulate exon splicing by either directly recruiting splice machinery or indirectly modulating transcriptional elongation. In this study, we hypothesized that hPTMs regulate expression of alternatively spliced genes for specific processes during differentiation. To address this notion, we applied an innovative machine learning approach to relate global hPTM enrichment to AS regulation during mammalian tissue development. We found that specific hPTMs, H3K36me3 and H3K4me1, play a role in skipped exon selection among all the tissues and developmental time points examined. In addition, we used iterative random forest model and found that interactions of multiple hPTMs most strongly predicted splicing when they included H3K36me3 and H3K4me1. Collectively, our data demonstrated a link between hPTMs and alternative splicing which will drive further experimental studies on the functional relevance of these modifications to alternative splicing.

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Alternative SplicingExonsHistone CodeAnimalsEmbryonic DevelopmentLogistic ModelsMachine LearningMiceProtein Processing, Post-Translational

Identifiers

PMID32319526
PMCPMC7229819
OpenAlexW3016631548

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