Rabab Nasrallah, Charlotte J Imianowski, Lara Bossini-Castillo, Francis M Grant, Mikail Dogan, Lindsey Placek, Lina Kozhaya, Paula Kuo, Firas Sadiyah, Sarah K Whiteside, Maxwell R Mumbach, Dafni Glinos, Panagiota Vardaka, Carly E Whyte, Teresa Lozano, Toshitsugu Fujita, Hodaka Fujii, Adrian Liston, Simon Andrews, Adeline Cozzani, Jie Yang, Suman Mitra, Enrico Lugli, Howard Y Chang, Derya Unutmaz, Gosia Trynka, Rahul Roychoudhuri
Genetic variations underlying susceptibility to complex autoimmune and allergic diseases are concentrated within noncoding regulatory elements termed enhancers1 . The functions of a large majority of disease-associated enhancers are unknown, in part owing to their distance from the genes they regulate, a lack of understanding of the cell types in which they operate, and our inability to recapitulate the biology of immune diseases in vitro. Here, using shared synteny to guide loss-of-function analysis of homologues of human enhancers in mice, we show that the prominent autoimmune and allergic disease risk locus at chromosome 11q13...
July 2020: Nature