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. 2021 Mar 8;12:1507. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21765-5

Fig. 3. AtacWorks identifies differentially-accessible regulatory regions associated with lineage-primed hematopoietic stem cells.

Fig. 3

a A schematic of the classical hierarchy of human hematopoietic differentiation. b A UMAP dimensionality reduction of single-cell ATAC-seq profiles from 9974 FACS-isolated hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). The colored points represent three 50-cell subsamples, each generated by selecting a single cell and identifying its nearest neighbors in principal component space. c A combined UMAP dimensionality reduction of single-cell ATAC-seq profiles from HSCs shown in (b) and 28,505 published bead-enriched CD34+ bone marrow progenitor cells17. The bead-enriched CD34+ cells are colored by the most correlated cell type from a FACS-isolated single-cell ATAC-seq reference24. The box indicates the region containing FACS-isolated HSCs shown in (b), (d) and (e). d FACS-isolated HSCs colored by chromVAR transcription factor motif accessibility z-scores for GATA2. These scores represent enrichment or depletion of chromatin accessibility within peaks that contain the GATA2 motif (see Methods). e FACS-isolated HSCs colored by smoothed gene accessibility scores for MEF2C. These scores are a weighted sum of read counts within 10 kb of the MEF2C transcription start site, averaged over each cell’s 50 nearest neighbors (see Methods). f Aggregate chromatin accessibility signal tracks surrounding genes implicated as markers of lineage priming24,29 for all 9974 FACS-isolated HSCs and the three denoised 50-cell subsamples of HSCs shown in (b). The arrows denote select regulatory regions with significant differences in chromatin accessibility relative to a random background. HSC: hematopoietic stem cell. MPP: Multipotent progenitor. LMPP: lymphoid-primed multipotent progenitor. CMP: common myeloid progenitor. CLP: common lymphoid progenitor. pDC: plasmacytoid dendritic cell. GMP: granulocyte-macrophage progenitor. MEP: megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.