Pancreatic progenitor epigenome maps prioritize type 2 diabetes risk genes with roles in development
Ryan J. Geusz, Allen Wang, Joshua Chiou, Joseph J. Lancman, Nichole Wetton, Samy Kefalopoulou, Jinzhao Wang, Yunjiang Qiu, Jian Yan, Anthony Aylward, Bing Ren, P. Duc Si Dong, Kyle J. Gaulton, Maike Sander
The paper identifies T2D risk variants in pancreatic progenitor-specific enhancers and shows their role in regulating developmental genes involved in pancreas morphogenesis.
eLife · Feb 5, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics