Jason A. Watts

The Pioneer Transcription Factor FoxA Maintains an Accessible Nucleosome Configuration at Enhancers for Tissue-Specific Gene Activation

Makiko Iwafuchi, Greg Donahue, Akshay Kakumanu et al. · Molecular Cell · 2016 · 409 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +16

Senataxin Mutation Reveals How R-Loops Promote Transcription by Blocking DNA Methylation at Gene Promoters

Christopher Grunseich, Isabel X. Wang, Jason A. Watts et al. · Molecular Cell · 2018 · 256 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +14

Transcriptional competence and the active marking of tissue-specific enhancers by defined transcription factors in embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells

Jian Xu, Jason A. Watts, Scott D. Pope et al. · Genes & Development · 2009 · 178 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology +17

Pioneer factor interactions and unmethylated CpG dinucleotides mark silent tissue-specific enhancers in embryonic stem cells

Jian Xu, Scott D. Pope, Ali R. Jazirehi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 112 citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Biology +17

Study of FoxA Pioneer Factor at Silent Genes Reveals Rfx-Repressed Enhancer at Cdx2 and a Potential Indicator of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Development

Jason A. Watts, Chaolin Zhang, Andres J. Klein–Szanto et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2011 · 67 citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Biology +17