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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2025

IGN: Invariable gene set-based normalization for chromatin accessibility profile data analysis.

Shengen Shawn Hu, Hai-Hui Xue, Chongzhi Zang

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Shengen Shawn HuDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Hai-Hui XueCenter for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack University Medical Center, Nutley, NJ 07110, USA.
Chongzhi ZangDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.

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Tcf/Lef-b-catenin in T cell identity and cancerR01AI112579 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Hai-Hui Xue · 2015 to 2026
$5.4M
Tcf/Lef and B-catenin pathway in follicular helper T cellsR01AI121080 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Hai-Hui Xue · 2016 to 2026
$4.6M
Integrative computational models for functional epigenomics and transcriptional regulationR35GM133712 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Chongzhi Zang · 2019 to 2026
$3.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI112579NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI121080NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133712
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Abstract

Chromatin accessibility profiles generated using ATAC-seq or DNase-seq carry functional information of the regulatory genome that controls gene expression. Appropriate normalization of ATAC-seq and DNase-seq data is essential for accurate differential analysis when studying chromatin dynamics. Existing normalization methods usually assume the same distribution of genomic signals across samples; however, this assumption may not be appropriate when there are global changes in chromatin accessibility levels between experimental conditions/samples. We present IGN (Invariable Gene Normalization), a method for ATAC-seq and DNase-seq data normalization. IGN normalizes the promoter chromatin accessibility signals for a set of genes that are unchanged in expression, usually obtained from accompanying RNA-seq data, and extrapolating to normalize the genome-wide chromatin accessibility profile. We demonstrate the effectiveness of IGN in analyzing central memory CD8

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ATAC-seqChromatin accessibilityDifferential analysisDNase-seqNormalization

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