Project description:Rapid advances in biochemical technologies have enabled several strategies for typing candidate HLA alleles, but linking them into a single MHC haplotype structure remains challenging. Here we have developed a multi-loci haplotype phasing technique and demonstrate its utility towards phasing of MHC and KIR loci in human samples. We accurately (~99%) reconstruct the complete haplotypes for over 90% of sequence variants spanning the 4-megabase region of these two loci. By haplotyping a majority of coding and non-coding alleles at the MHC and KIR loci in a single assay, this method has the potential to assist transplantation matching and facilitate investigation of the genetic basis of human immunity and disease. Complete haplotype phasing of 2 loci (MHC and KIR) in 1 human cell line.
Project description:Rapid advances in biochemical technologies have enabled several strategies for typing candidate HLA alleles, but linking them into a single MHC haplotype structure remains challenging. Here we have developed a multi-loci haplotype phasing technique and demonstrate its utility towards phasing of MHC and KIR loci in human samples. We accurately (~99%) reconstruct the complete haplotypes for over 90% of sequence variants spanning the 4-megabase region of these two loci. By haplotyping a majority of coding and non-coding alleles at the MHC and KIR loci in a single assay, this method has the potential to assist transplantation matching and facilitate investigation of the genetic basis of human immunity and disease.
Project description:How transcription factors (TFs) and their binding sites organize and engage nucleosomes at natural genomic locations remains poorly understood. Here we develop Benzonase-seq to measure the rotational phasing of nucleosomes in human cells, and enhance ChIP-exo (v6) to measure rotational phasing on the same DNA molecule bound by a TF. Unbound CTCF sites were found to be rotationally accessible on nucleosomes and this rotational accessibility is encoded by classical dinucleotide periodicities. CTCF binding results in nucleosome displacement to adjacent DNA phasing sequences. Examining 40 TF classes, their unbound sites were phased inward, outward, or lacked phasing. In all examined cases, TF binding (e.g. NFIA and FoxA) results in adjacent rotational and translational phasing, which is not dinucleotide encoded. Benzonase-seq also more robustly maps nucleosome and subnucleosome positions in hard-to-map CpG islands. These findings provide a clearer view of how TFs engage and position nucleosomes to shape the natural chromatin landscape.
Project description:How transcription factors (TFs) and their binding sites organize and engage nucleosomes at natural genomic locations remains poorly understood. Here we develop Benzonase-seq to measure the rotational phasing of nucleosomes in human cells, and enhance ChIP-exo (v6) to measure rotational phasing on the same DNA molecule bound by a TF. Unbound CTCF sites were found to be rotationally accessible on nucleosomes and this rotational accessibility is encoded by classical dinucleotide periodicities. CTCF binding results in nucleosome displacement to adjacent DNA phasing sequences. Examining 40 TF classes, their unbound sites were phased inward, outward, or lacked phasing. In all examined cases, TF binding (e.g. NFIA and FoxA) results in adjacent rotational and translational phasing, which is not dinucleotide encoded. Benzonase-seq also more robustly maps nucleosome and subnucleosome positions in hard-to-map CpG islands. These findings provide a clearer view of how TFs engage and position nucleosomes to shape the natural chromatin landscape.
Project description:Gaining insights into the regulatory mechanisms that underlie the pervasive transcriptional variation observed between individual cells necessitates the development of methods that measure chromatin organization in single cells. Nucleosome Occupancy and Methylome-sequencing (NOMe-seq) employs a GpC methyltransferase to detect accessible chromatin and has been used to map nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation genome-wide in bulk samples. Here I provide proof-of-principle that NOMe-seq can be adapted to measure chromatin accessibility and endogenous DNA methylation in single cells (scNOMe-seq). scNOMe-seq recovered characteristic accessibility and DNA methylation patterns at DNase Hypersensitive sites and enabled direct estimation of the number of accessible DHS sites within an individual cell. In addition, scNOMe-seq provided high resolution of chromatin accessibility within individual loci which was exploited to detect footprints of CTCF binding and to estimate the average nucleosome phasing distances in single cells.
Project description:Rapid advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies are accelerating the pace of research into personalized medicine. While methods for variant discovery and genotyping from whole genome sequencing (WGS) datasets have been well established, linking variants together into a single haplotype remains a challenge. An understanding of complete haplotypes of an individual will help clarify the consequences of inheriting multiple alleles in combination, identify novel disease associations, and augment studies of gene regulation. Although numerous methods have been developed to reconstruct haplotypes from WGS data, chromosome-span haplotypes at high resolution have been difficult to obtain. Here we present a novel method to accurately reconstruct chromosome-span haplotypes from proximity-ligation and DNA shotgun sequencing. We demonstrate the utility of this approach in producing high-resolution chromosome-span haplotype phasing in mouse and human. While proximity-ligation based methods were originally designed to investigate spatial organization of the genome, our results lend support for their use as a general tool for haplotyping in the future.
Project description:Rapid advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies are accelerating the pace of research into personalized medicine. While methods for variant discovery and genotyping from whole genome sequencing (WGS) datasets have been well established, linking variants together into a single haplotype remains a challenge. An understanding of complete haplotypes of an individual will help clarify the consequences of inheriting multiple alleles in combination, identify novel disease associations, and augment studies of gene regulation. Although numerous methods have been developed to reconstruct haplotypes from WGS data, chromosome-span haplotypes at high resolution have been difficult to obtain. Here we present a novel method to accurately reconstruct chromosome-span haplotypes from proximity-ligation and DNA shotgun sequencing. We demonstrate the utility of this approach in producing high-resolution chromosome-span haplotype phasing in mouse and human. While proximity-ligation based methods were originally designed to investigate spatial organization of the genome, our results lend support for their use as a general tool for haplotyping in the future. Hi-C experiments in two replicates of Human GM12878 Lymphoblastoid cells and two replicates of F123 mouse ES cells (4 total samples)