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How to infer the target TF gene of ZNF132 without any ChIP-seq knowledge?

Hi All,

Any way I can choose to infer the target genes which are regulated by transcript factor gene: ZNF132 without any ChIP-seq result.

By the way, ENCODE didn't include this gene in his ChIP-seq design.

Thanks.

znf132 chip-seq

1 answer

Neph et al describes a procedure which involves locating putative TF binding sites in DNaseI-seq footprinted regions. There's a paper by Maurano et al that shows footprint signal have good concordance with ChIP-seq signal. You then do bedops set operations to find overlaps with gene promoter regions, i.e. where a TF can bind to a gene's promoter may indicate a regulatory relationship between the TF and the target gene.

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