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MOCCS profile analysis clarifies the cell type dependency of transcription factor-binding sequences and cis-regulatory SNPs in humans
Saeko Tahara, Takaho Tsuchiya, Hirotaka Matsumoto, Haruka Ozaki
The paper introduces MOCCS profiles to analyze DNA-binding specificity of TFs across cell types and shows that one-third of TFs exhibit cell-type-specific binding, with ΔMOCCS2scores predicting variant effects on TF binding.