Pluto Bioinformatics

GSE75907: Genome-wide landscape and functional necessity of heart enhancers

Bulk RNA sequencing

Analysis of the transcriptional changes in the heart resulting from the loss of cardiac enhancers.; As there remains a limited understanding of the phenotypic consequences of enhancer mutations, we examined the impact of loss of function mutations by deleting two enhancers near heart disease genes in mice. In both cases, we observed loss of target gene expression, as well as cardiac phenotypes consistent with heart disease in humans, highlighting the functional importance of enhancers for normal heart function, as well as the potential contribution of enhancer mutations to heart disease. SOURCE: Yoko Yuzawamammalian functional genomics laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory