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ATAC-seq is a genome wide method for identifying accessible chromatin regions, which are typically CRMs, which can be performed on small numbers of cells. The low starting material requirement is ideal for pediatric research, due to the difficulty in obtaining large numbers of cells in children. However, current data analysis still utilizes approaches originally designed for ChIP-seq or DNase-seq, without taking into account the transposase digested DNA fragments that contain additional nucleosome positioning information. Here we present a novel algorithm for analyzing ATAC-seq data, HMMRATAC, which integrates various chromatin features present within an ATAC-seq library to accurately identify accessible CRMs. We then apply ATAC-seq and HMMRATAC to the CD4+ T cells of JIA patients, along with other genomic and transcriptomic approaches, to understand what factors may be driving the gene expression differences that have been observed in JIA."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Taking the Idiopathic Out of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Liu, Tao","Biochemistry"],"dc:creator":["Tarbell, Evan; 0000-0003-1806-4806"],"dc:date":["2019-04-04T20:32:26Z","2019","2019-01-15 15:25:10"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","Cis-regulatory elements (CRMs) are genomic regions that exert spatiotemporal control over gene expression patterns, which is critical to cell identity and function and whose disruption can lead to disease phenotypes. 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