Feng Guo, Li Zhang, Yuzhen Yu, Lu Gong, Shiyue Tao, Rhiannon B Werder, Shreya Mishra, Yihan Zhou, Wardatul Jannat Anamika, Taotao Lao, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Yihan Zhang, Betty Pham, Tao Liu, Tiffany S Tufenkjian, Bradley W Richmond, Wenyi Wei, Hongmei Mou, Andrew A Wilson, Ming Hu, Wei Chen, Xiaobo Zhou
BACKGROUND: An intergenic region at chromosome 4q31 is one of the most significant regions associated with COPD susceptibility and lung function in GWAS. In this region, the implicated causal gene HHIP has a unique epithelial expression pattern in adult human lungs, in contrast to dominant expression in fibroblasts in murine lungs. However, the mechanism underlying the species-dependent cell type-specific regulation of HHIP remains largely unknown. METHODS: We employed snATAC-seq analysis to identify open chromatin regions within the COPD GWAS region in various human lung cell types...
February 27, 2024: EBioMedicine