Abstract:
My talk will focus on how to leverage thousands of functional genomics datasets to deeply annotate the disease genome and perform data mining to discover disease-associated regulators and variations.
First, I will introduce our computational efforts to perform large-scale integration to accurately define distal and proximal regulatory elements (MatchedFilter) and then show how our extended gene annotation allows us to place oncogenic transformations in the context of a broad cell space; here, many normal-to-tumor transitions move towards a stem-like state, while oncogene knockdowns show an opposing trend.
Second, I will look at our comprehensive regulatory networks of both transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins (TFs and RBPs). I will showcase their value by highlighting how SUB1, a previously uncharacterized RBP, drives aberrant tumor expression and amplifies the effect of the well-known oncogenic TF MYC.
Third, I will introduce a workflow to prioritize key elements and variants. I will showcase the application of this prioritization to somatic burdening, cancer differential expression and GWAS (LARVA, MOAT & uORF tools). Targeted validations of the prioritized regulators, elements and variants demonstrate the value of our annotation resource.
Finally, I will put all these methods together through application to kidney and prostate cancers.
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