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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Regulatory SNPs: Altered Transcription Factor Binding Sites Implicated in Complex Traits and Diseases.

Arina O Degtyareva, Elena V Antontseva, Tatiana I Merkulova

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arina O DegtyarevaDepartment of Molecular Genetic, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
Elena V AntontsevaDepartment of Molecular Genetic, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
Tatiana I MerkulovaDepartment of Molecular Genetic, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
Institute of Cytology and Genetics · RUNovosibirsk State University · RU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vast majority of the genetic variants (mainly SNPs) associated with various human traits and diseases map to a noncoding part of the genome and are enriched in its regulatory compartment, suggesting that many causal variants may affect gene expression. The leading mechanism of action of these SNPs consists in the alterations in the transcription factor binding via creation or disruption of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) or some change in the affinity of these regulatory proteins to their cognate sites. In this review, we first focus on the history of the discovery of regulatory SNPs (rSNPs) and systematized description of the existing methodical approaches to their study. Then, we brief the recent comprehensive examples of rSNPs studied from the discovery of the changes in the TFBS sequence as a result of a nucleotide substitution to identification of its effect on the target gene expression and, eventually, to phenotype. We also describe state-of-the-art genome-wide approaches to identification of regulatory variants, including both making molecular sense of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and the alternative approaches the primary goal of which is to determine the functionality of genetic variants. Among these approaches, special attention is paid to expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) analysis and the search for allele-specific events in RNA-seq (ASE events) as well as in ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, and ATAC-seq (ASB events) data.

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Binding SitesDisease SusceptibilityGene Expression RegulationMultifactorial InheritancePolymorphism, Single NucleotideAllelesGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome, HumanGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsHumansQuantitative Trait LociTelomeraseTranscription FactorsTelomeraseTERT protein, humanTranscription Factorsgene by gene studiesgene expressiongenome wide approachesregulatory SNPstranscription factor binding sites

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PMID34208629
PMCPMC8235176
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