Figure 1.
Impact on TFBS Score of Mutations Inserted into Synthesized TFBS Sequences
The boxes correspond to score deltas for (from left to right) 1 bp substitutions, 2 bp substitutions at adjacent positions, two randomly placed 1 bp substitutions, 3 bp substitutions both in adjacent and at random positions, four randomly placed base pair substitutions, five randomly placed substitutions, one randomly placed 1 bp insertion, and one randomly placed 1 bp deletion.
Figure 2.
Fractions of Regulatory and Background SNPs Overlapping Predicted TFBSs
SNPs were analyzed using all transcription factors in the JASPAR database, and using TFBS score delta thresholds between one and nine.
Figure 3.
Fractions of Regulatory and Background SNPs in Evolutionary Conserved Regions
SNPs were given the mean phastCons scores from multiple alignments of human, chimp, mouse, rat, dog, chicken, fugu, and zebrafish in windows of 21 bp centered at the SNPs. The fractions of SNPs located within conserved regions were calculated for mean phastCons score thresholds between 0.1 and 0.9. For every threshold a Fisher's exact test was performed to test if there was a significantly different frequency of successes in the regulatory versus the background SNP sets; p-values are indicated above each pair of bars.
Figure 4.
Distributions of Mean phastCons Scores for SNPs located at Different Distances from the TSS
SNPs were given the mean phastCons scores from multiple alignments of human, chimp, mouse, rat, dog, chicken, fugu, and zebrafish in windows of 21 bp centered at the SNPs. For every interval a student's T-test was performed to check if there were significant differences in the distributions of phastCons values for the regulatory and background SNPs; the p-values from these tests are indicated above each pair of boxes.
Figure 5.
Combination of TFBS Analysis and Phylogenetic Footprinting
Sensitivity of the predictions is plotted versus 1-specificity for phastCons score thresholds of 0, 0.1, 0.2, etc., up to 0.9. The whole range of values is only shown for the red curve; for the other curves, values for phastCons score thresholds 0 and 0.1 are outside the area covered by the plot. The curves correspond to different TFBS score delta thresholds. In the left panel, the relative TFBS score threshold for the best matching allele was 80%, in the right panel the relative TFBS score threshold for the best matching allele was 90%.
Table 1.
Analysis of Regulatory Mutations When the Affected Transcription Factor Binding Site Is Known
Figure 6.
Distributions of TFBS Score Delta Values for Background SNPs, Regulatory SNPs, and Regulatory SNPs for Which the Affected TFBS Is Known
In the three leftmost boxes the average score delta for all matches to any PWMs in the JASPAR database was collected for every SNP. In the rightmost box the score delta for the PWM corresponding to the verified PWM was collected for every SNP.
Figure 7.
Overview of the RAVEN Web Interface
(A) The search page.
(B) The search results page where a list of genes corresponding to the search query is displayed.
(C) The reference sequence selection page where the genomic location of the selected human sequence and cDNAs that map to it is displayed.
(D) The graphical results view.
(E) Table view of SNPs predicted to affect TFBSs.
(F) Selection of TFBS profiles from the JASPAR database. (G) Upload of private SNP sequences.