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Sambina Islam Aninta

@sambean12.bsky.social
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KMILOT Scholar @ UBC | PhD in Biomedical Engineering @ de Boer lab

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Sambina Islam Aninta @sambean12.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Overall, the library design choices made when building an MPRA can directly affect which variant effects are measured and how large they appear. Functionally important variants may be underestimated or missed depending on where they are placed in the construct. 6/6
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Sambina Islam Aninta @sambean12.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We also find that ~1% of variants overlap Pol III promoters in Alu elements, where both the A and B box motifs must be present in the probe for the variant effect to be captured correctly. 5/6
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Sambina Islam Aninta @sambean12.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In a subset of cases, cooperative interactions between TFs contribute to position-specific variant effects. 4/6
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Sambina Islam Aninta @sambean12.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The main driver of this positional bias is position-dependent TF activity. TFs don't contribute equally to expression from all locations in a sequence, so variants that perturb TF binding inherit this dependence. Closer to the TSS tends to show larger effects, but this is TF-specific. 3/6
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Sambina Islam Aninta @sambean12.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
MPRAs typically test variants in the center of ~200bp constructs. We shifted variant positions across the probe and found that while the direction of effects is usually preserved, the magnitude can vary substantially depending on placement. 2/6
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