Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40179192›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025

Transcription factor networks disproportionately enrich for heritability of blood cell phenotypes.

Jorge Diego Martin-Rufino, Alexis Caulier, Seayoung Lee, Nicole Castano, Emily King, Samantha Joubran, Marcus Jones, Seth R Goldman, Uma P Arora, Lara Wahlster and 2 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Genetic influences on haematopoiesis.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026
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  9. Distinguishing causal from tagging enhancers using single-cell multiome data.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Jorge Diego Martin-Rufino *Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7631-5442
Alexis Caulier *Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-1505-7085
Seayoung LeeBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA, USA.
Nicole CastanoDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-3160-2941
Emily KingDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0173-3172
Samantha JoubranDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4267-2492
Marcus JonesNascent Transcriptomics Core, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1344-5263
Seth R GoldmanNascent Transcriptomics Core, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5096-3778
Uma P AroraDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Lara WahlsterDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8409-7580
Eric S LanderBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2662-4631
Vijay G SankaranDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0044-443X

Funding

Systematic Genetic Dissection of Human ErythropoiesisR01DK103794 · NIDDK · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Vijay Ganesh Sankaran · 2014 to 2026
$5.9M
Next generation functional genomics of hematology traitsR01HL146500 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ALEXANDER P REINER · 2020 to 2026
$5.7M
Selective pressures from inherited variation impacting myeloproliferative neoplasm initiationR01CA265726 · NCI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Vijay Ganesh Sankaran · 2022 to 2026
$2.5M
Variant to Function Mapping of B-ALL Risk LociR01CA292941 · NCI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Adam De Smith, Vijay Ganesh Sankaran · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
Identifying Genome-wide Association Study-Nominated Regulators of ErythropoiesisR33HL120791 · NHLBI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI SANKARAN, VIJAY GANESH · 2016 to 2018
$1.7M
Clonal analysis of cancer by mitochondrial DNA barcodingR33CA278393 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SANKARAN, VIJAY GANESH, VAN GALEN, PETER · 2023 to 2025
$1.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS R01 CA265726NCI NIH HHS R01 CA292941NCI NIH HHS R33 CA278393NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146500NHLBI NIH HHS R33 HL120791NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK103794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most phenotype-associated genetic variants map to noncoding regulatory regions of the human genome, but their mechanisms remain elusive in most cases. We developed a highly efficient strategy, Perturb-multiome, to simultaneously profile chromatin accessibility and gene expression in single cells with CRISPR-mediated perturbation of master transcription factors (TFs). We examined the connection between TFs, accessible regions, and gene expression across the genome throughout hematopoietic differentiation. We discovered that variants within TF-sensitive accessible chromatin regions in erythroid differentiation, although representing <0.3% of the genome, show a ~100-fold enrichment for blood cell phenotype heritability, which is substantially higher than that for other accessible chromatin regions. Our approach facilitates large-scale mechanistic understanding of phenotype-associated genetic variants by connecting key cis-regulatory elements and their target genes within gene regulatory networks.

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Blood CellsChromatinErythropoiesisGene Regulatory NetworksTranscription FactorsCell DifferentiationCRISPR-Cas SystemsErythroid CellsGenetic VariationGenome, HumanHumansPhenotypeSingle-Cell AnalysisChromatinTranscription Factors

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PMID40179192
PMCPMC12168499

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