Project description:We devised an improved assay for single cell profiling of chromatin accessibility with three-level combinatorial indexing (sci-ATAC-seq3). We applied this method to 53 fetal tissue samples representing 15 organs, altogether profiling approximately one million single cells. We leveraged cell types defined by gene expression in the same organs to annotate these data, and built a catalog of hundreds-of-thousands of candidate gene regulatory elements exhibiting cell type-specific accessibility. Our analyses focus on the properties of lineage-specific transcription factors, organ-specific specializations of broadly distributed cell types, and cell type-specific enrichments of complex trait heritability. Additional data formats are available at atlas.brotmanbaty.org.

2020-11-01 | GSE149683 | GEO

A cell atlas of chromatin accessibility across 25 adult human tissues

Project description:Current catalogs of regulatory sequences in the human genome are still incomplete and lack cell type resolution. To profile the activity of human gene regulatory elements in diverse cell types and tissues in the human body, we applied single cell chromatin accessibility assays to 25 distinct human tissue types from multiple donors. The resulting chromatin maps comprising ~500,000 nuclei revealed the status of open chromatin for over 750,000 candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in 54 distinct cell types. We further delineated cell type-specific and tissue-context dependent gene regulatory programs, and developmental stage specificity by comparing with a recent human fetal chromatin accessibility atlas. We finally used these chromatin maps to interpret the noncoding variants associated with complex human traits and diseases. This rich resource provides a foundation for the analysis of gene regulatory programs in human cell types across tissues and organ systems.

2021-02-16 | GSE165659 | GEO

A human cell atlas of fetal chromatin accessibility.

Project description: Not available

| S-EPMC7785298 | biostudies-literature

Single-cell chromatin accessibility atlas of human retinal organoid development

Project description:Single-cell chromatin accessibility atlas of human retinal organoid development

| PRJEB60385 | ENA

Chromatin Accessibility in Developing Human Brain

Project description:<p>Non-coding regions comprise most of the human genome and harbor a significant fraction of risk alleles for neuropsychiatric diseases, yet their functions remain poorly defined. We created a high-resolution map of non-coding elements involved in human cortical neurogenesis by contrasting chromatin accessibility and gene expression in the germinal zone and cortical plate of the developing cerebral cortex. To obtain a high resolution depiction of chromatin structure and gene expression in developing human fetal cortex, we dissected the post-conception week (PCW) 15-17 human neocortex into two major anatomical divisions to distinguish between proliferating neural progenitors and post mitotic neurons: (1) GZ: the neural progenitor-enriched region encompassing the ventricular zone (VZ), subventricular zone (SVZ), and intermediate zone (IZ) and (2) CP: the neuron-enriched region containing the subplate (SP), cortical plate (CP), and marginal zone (MZ). Tissues were obtained from three independent donors and three to four technical replicates from each tissue were processed for ATAC-seq to define the landscape of accessible chromatin and RNA-seq for genome-wide gene expression profiling.</p>

| phs001438 | dbGaP

Single cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility in human fetal microglia

Project description:Single cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility in human fetal microglia

| PRJNA594973 | ENA

Earthworm chromatin accessibility atlas with 10x Genomics

Project description:Earthworm chromatin accessibility atlas with 10x Genomics

| PRJNA964592 | ENA