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Bayarsaihan, D.

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OFC-SV: Interpreting structural variants in African and Asian cohorts with non-syndromic orofacial clefts

OFC-SV is a web-based data portal designed to help interpret structural variants (SVs) in non-syndromic orofacial clefts genomic data published by The Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program. The portal offers a user-friendly way to explore 41 novel SV genes (of these 13 sharing regulatory perturbations already reported in the literature as SNV genes) potentially responsible for non-syndromic OFC (nsOFC) from a cohort of children of African and Asian ancestry. A salient feature of the portal is its unique ability to capture epigenomic disruptions and complex oligogenic interactions in visualized regulatory pathways, thus advancing the frontier of disease etiology through convenient translation of computational signals into biological interpretations.

bioinformatics↗

Transcription factor TFII-I fine tunes innate properties of B lymphocytes

The ubiquitously expressed transcription factor TFII-I is a multifunctional protein with pleiotropic roles in gene regulation. TFII-I associated polymorphisms are implicated in Sjogrens syndrome and Lupus in humans and, germline deletion of the Gtf2i gene in mice leads to embryonic lethality. Here we report a unique role for TFII-I in homeostasis of innate properties of B lymphocytes. Loss of Gtf2i in murine B lineage cells leads to a change in transcriptome and chromatin landscape, which resembles myeloid-like features and coincides with enhanced sensitivity to LPS induced transcription. TFII-I deficient B cells also show increased switching to IgG3, a phenotype associated with inflammation. These results demonstrate a role for TFII-I in maintaining immune homeostasis and provide clues for GTF2I polymorphisms associated with B cell dominated autoimmune diseases in humans.

immunology↗