The impact of structural variation on human gene expression.

Autor: Chiang C; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA., Scott AJ; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA., Davis JR; Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA., Tsang EK; Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.; Biomedical Informatics Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA., Li X; Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA., Kim Y; Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA., Hadzic T; Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA., Damani FN; Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA., Ganel L; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA., Montgomery SB; Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.; Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA., Battle A; Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA., Conrad DF; Department of Pathology &Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.; Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA., Hall IM; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.; Department of Pathology &Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.; Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature genetics [Nat Genet] 2017 May; Vol. 49 (5), pp. 692-699. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Apr 03.
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3834
Abstrakt: Structural variants (SVs) are an important source of human genetic diversity, but their contribution to traits, disease and gene regulation remains unclear. We mapped cis expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) in 13 tissues via joint analysis of SVs, single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and short insertion/deletion (indel) variants from deep whole-genome sequencing (WGS). We estimated that SVs are causal at 3.5-6.8% of eQTLs-a substantially higher fraction than prior estimates-and that expression-altering SVs have larger effect sizes than do SNVs and indels. We identified 789 putative causal SVs predicted to directly alter gene expression: most (88.3%) were noncoding variants enriched at enhancers and other regulatory elements, and 52 were linked to genome-wide association study loci. We observed a notable abundance of rare high-impact SVs associated with aberrant expression of nearby genes. These results suggest that comprehensive WGS-based SV analyses will increase the power of common- and rare-variant association studies.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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