When chromatin models disagree: null accessibility shift but a disrupted CEBPG binding site

jmschreiber91 · x · 2026-10-31

Follow-up from jmschreiber91: an interesting case where the models "disagree" — a variant shows essentially no effect on chromatin accessibility (DNase-seq lfc ≈ 0) yet the CEBPG TF binding model infers a strongly disrupted binding site (delta -1.8). Possible explanations: the TF may not be a pioneer factor, or one of the models may simply be wrong. Track images show the DNase-seq and CEBPG footprints around the variant in K562 cells.

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