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Table 2 Summary of regulatory regions from FANTOM5 and ENCODE.

From: Disease-associated variants in different categories of disease located in distinct regulatory elements

Regulatory Regions

Source

Technique

Institute

Length(bp)

Percent of human genome (%)

Transcription promoter

FANTOM5

CAGE

RIKEN

3,833,500

0.12

Transcription enhancer

FANTOM5

CAGE

RIKEN

12,385,403

0.38

Transcription insulator

ENCODE

ChIP-seq

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Yale University, Harvard University

81,713,060

3.52

Methylation region

ENCODE

Methylation 450

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

19,517,834

0.60

Histone modification region

ENCODE

ChIP-seq

Broad institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

2,816,878,674

 

Chromatin physical interaction regions

ENCODE

CHIA-PET

Genome Institute of Singapore, Stanford University

1,288,430,643

39.83

DNA binding sites of protein

ENCODE

ChIP-seq

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Yale University, Harvard University

380,355,257

11.76

Open chromatin regions (DNase I hypersensitive sites)

ENCODE

DNase-seq

Washington University, Duke University

387,138,495

11.97

Open chromatin regions by FAIRE-seq

ENCODE

FAIRE-seq

Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Texas at Austin, European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Cambridge

448,557,442

13.87