The cis-regulatory effects of modern human-specific variants
C. V. Weiss, L. Harshman, F. Inoue, H. B. Fraser, D. A. Petrov, N. Ahituv, D. Gokhman
The paper investigates the regulatory effects of modern human-specific variants using a massively parallel reporter assay in three cell types, finding 1,791 active sequences and 407 driving differential expression.
bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2020Evolutionary Biology