As organisms age, cells accumulate genetic and epigenetic errors that eventually lead to impaired organ function or catastrophic transformation such as cancer. Because aging reflects a stochastic process of increasing disorder, cells in an organ will be individually affected in ...
Read More »Integration of ATAC-seq and RNA-seq identifies human alpha cell and beta cell signature genes
Highlights Defined open chromatin regions in sorted human α- and β-cells using ATAC-seq. Detected type 2 diabetes-associated risk loci in human α- and β-cell open chromatin. Classified human α- and β-cell-specific transcripts using mRNA-seq. Discovered novel ...
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