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An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome ENCODE Project Consortium. Nature 2012 Sep 6; 489:57-74. Michael M. Hoffman University of Washington 12 September 2012

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Major results 80% of genome shows biochemical activity ENCODE elements under purifying selection We can predict RNA using chromatin data Segmentation of genome into labels Noncoding variants often in ENCODE elements Disease phenotypes from GWAS can be associated with a cell type or transcription factor

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Biochemical activity The vast majority (80.4%) of the human genome participates in at least one biochemical RNA- and/or chromatin-associated event in at least one cell type. Much of the genome lies close to a regulatory event: 95% of the genome lies within 8 kilobases (kb) of a DNAprotein interaction (as assayed by bound ChIP-seq motifs or DNase I footprints), and 99% is within 1.7 kb of at least one of the biochemical events measured by ENCODE.

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Elements show negative selection Primate-specific elements as well as elements without detectable mammalian constraint show, in aggregate, evidence of negative selection; thus, some of them are expected to be functional.

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Impact of selection on ENCODE functional elements in mammals and human populations

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We can predict RNA expression It is possible to correlate quantitatively RNA sequence production and processing with both chromatin marks and transcription factor binding at promoters, indicating that promoter functionality can explain most of the variation in RNA expression.

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Modelling transcription levels from histone modification and transcription-factor-binding patterns

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Patterns and asymmetry of chromatin modification at transcription-factor-binding sites

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Co-association between transcription factors

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Genomic segmentation Classifying the genome into seven chromatin states indicates an initial set of 399,124 regions with enhancer-like features and 70,292 regions with promoter-like features, as well as hundreds of thousands of quiescent regions. High-resolution analyses further subdivide the genome into thousands of narrow states with distinct functional properties.

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Integration of ENCODE data by genome-wide segmentation

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Experimental characterization of segmentations

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High-resolution segmentation of ENCODE data by self-organizing maps (SOM)

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Non-coding variant annotation Many non-coding variants in individual genome sequences lie in ENCODE-annotated functional regions; this number is at least as large as those that lie in protein-coding genes.

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Allele-specific ENCODE elements

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Examining ENCODE elements on a per individual basis in the normal and cancer genome.

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GWAS disease SNPs and ENCODE elements Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with disease by GWAS are enriched within non-coding functional elements, with a majority residing in or near ENCODE-defined regions that are outside of protein-coding genes. In many cases, the disease phenotypes can be associated with a specific cell type or transcription factor.

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Examining ENCODE elements on a per individual basis in the normal and cancer genome.

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Major results 80% of genome shows biochemical activity ENCODE elements under purifying selection We can predict RNA using chromatin data Segmentation of genome into labels Noncoding variants often in ENCODE elements Disease phenotypes from GWAS can be associated with a cell type or transcription factor