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An encyclopedia of human enhancer–gene regulatory interactions
Abstract Identifying transcriptional enhancers and their target genes is essential for understanding gene regulation and the effect of human genetic variation on disease 1–6 . Here we create and evaluate a resource of more than 92 million enhancer–gene regulatory interactions across 1,458 biosamples covering 369 cell types and tissues, by integrating predictive models, chromatin states, three-dimensional contacts and large-scale genetic perturbations generated by the ENCODE Consortium 7 . We first create a systematic benchmarking pipeline to compare predictive models, assembling a dataset of 10,356 element–gene pairs measured in CRISPR perturbation experiments, more than 30,000 fine-mapped expression quantitative trait loci and 569 fine-mapped genome-wide association study (GWAS) variants linked to a probable causal gene. Using this framework, we develop ENCODE-rE2G, a predictive model achieving state-of-the-art performance across several prediction tasks, demonstrating that iterative perturbations and supervised machine learning can build increasingly accurate predictive models of enhancer regulation. Using ENCODE-rE2G, we build an encyclopedia of enhancer–gene regulatory interactions in the human genome, revealing global properties of enhancer networks, identifying differences in regulatory complexity across genes and improving analyses linking noncoding variants to target genes and cell types for common complex diseases. By interpreting the model, we find that beyond enhancer activity and three-dimensional enhancer–promoter contacts, additional features that guide enhancer–promoter communication include promoter class and enhancer–enhancer synergy. These genome-wide maps of enhancer–gene regulatory interactions, benchmarking software, predictive models and insights about enhancer function provide a valuable resource for future studies of gene regulation and human genetics.