bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.12.939348; this version posted February 13, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Functional characterization of thousands of type 2 diabetes-associated and 2 chromatin-modulating variants under steady state and endoplasmic reticulum 3 stress 4 5 Shubham Khetan1,3, Susan Kales2, Romy Kursawe1, Alexandria Jillette1, Steven K. 6 Reilly4, Duygu Ucar1,3,5, Ryan Tewhey2,6,7*, and Michael L. Stitzel1,3,5* 7 8 1The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, 06032, USA 9 2The Jackson Laboratory for Mammalian Genetics, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609, USA 10 3Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut, Farmington, 11 CT, 06032, USA, 12 4Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA 13 5Institute of Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, 06032, USA 14 6Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, 15 ME, 04469, USA. 16 7Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02111, USA 17 18 *Corresponding authors:
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[email protected] 19 20 Keywords: Massively Parallel Reporter Assay (MPRA), human pancreatic islets, MIN6 21 beta cells, chromatin accessibility, ATAC-seq, chromatin accessibility quantitative trait 22 locus (caQTLs), genome-wide association study (GWAS), single nucleotide 23 polymorphism (SNP), Type 2 diabetes (T2D), endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, short 24 interspersed nuclear elements (SINE), Alu elements. bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.12.939348; this version posted February 13, 2020.