QuASAR-MPRA: accurate allele-specific analysis for massively parallel reporter assays.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The majority of the human genome is composed of non-coding regions containing regulatory elements such as enhancers, which are crucial for controlling gene expression. Many variants associated with complex traits are in these regions, and may disrupt gene regulatory sequences. Consequently, it is important to not only identify true enhancers but also to test if a variant within an enhancer affects gene regulation. Recently, allele-specific analysis in high-throughput reporter assays, such as massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs), have been used to functionally validate non-coding variants. However, we are still missing high-quality and robust data analysis tools for these datasets.

Results

We have further developed our method for allele-specific analysis QuAS

SUBMITTER: Kalita CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6049023 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature