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VISTA Enhancer browser: an updated database of tissue-specific developmental enhancers

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https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkae940/7848837
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Abstract

Regulatory elements (enhancers) are major drivers of gene expression in mammals and harbor many genetic variants associated with human diseases. Here, we present an updated VISTA Enhancer Browser (https://enhancer.lbl.gov), a database of transgenic enhancer assays conducted in developing mouse embryos in vivo. Since the original publication in 2007, the database grew nearly 20-fold from 250 to over 4500 experiments and currently harbors over 23 500 images. The updated database provides structured information on experiments conducted at different stages of embryonic development, including enhancer activities of human pathogenic and synthetic variants and sequences derived from a variety of species. In addition to manually curated results of thousands of individual experiments, the new database also features hundreds of manually curated comparisons between alleles. The VISTA Enhancer Browser provides a crucial resource for study of human genetic variation, gene regulation and developmental biology.

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