A candidate regulatory variant at the TREM gene cluster associates with decreased Alzheimer's disease risk and increased TREML1 and TREM2 brain gene expression

Autor: Jeremy D. Burgess, Christopher Medway, Chen Wang, Daniel J. Serie, Yan W. Asmann, Thuy Nguyen, Mariet Allen, Samantha L. Strickland, Joanna Siuda, Michaela Kachadoorian, Kevin Morgan, Kimberly G. Malphrus, David A. Bennett, Curtis S. Younkin, Xue Wang, Sarah Lincoln, Philip L. De Jager, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Dennis W. Dickson, Julia E. Crook, Pritha Chanana, Ronald C. Petersen, Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, Shivani Aryal, Steven G. Younkin, Todd E. Golde, Nathan D. Price, Asha Nair, Charles C. White, Minerva M. Carrasquillo
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
Epidemiology
TREML1
Regulatory variant
Quantitative Trait Loci
Gene Expression
Locus (genetics)
Biology
Quantitative trait locus
eQTL
Linkage Disequilibrium
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Developmental Neuroscience
Alzheimer Disease
Cerebellum
Gene cluster
TREM2
Humans
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Receptors
Immunologic

Aged
Aged
80 and over

Temporal cortex
Genetics
Membrane Glycoproteins
Microarray analysis techniques
Health Policy
Genetic Variation
Alzheimer's disease
Microarray Analysis
Temporal Lobe
Psychiatry and Mental health
030104 developmental biology
Multigene Family
Expression quantitative trait loci
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Hypersensitive site
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Alzheimer's & Dementia. 13:663-673
ISSN: 1552-5279
1552-5260
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.10.005
Popis: Introduction We hypothesized that common Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated variants within the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid ( TREM ) gene cluster influence disease through gene expression. Methods Expression microarrays on temporal cortex and cerebellum from ∼400 neuropathologically diagnosed subjects and two independent RNAseq replication cohorts were used for expression quantitative trait locus analysis. Results A variant within a DNase hypersensitive site 5′ of TREM2 , rs9357347-C, associates with reduced AD risk and increased TREML1 and TREM2 levels (uncorrected P = 6.3 × 10 −3 and 4.6 × 10 −2 , respectively). Meta-analysis on expression quantitative trait locus results from three independent data sets ( n = 1006) confirmed these associations (uncorrected P = 3.4 × 10 −2 and 3.5 × 10 −3 , Bonferroni-corrected P = 6.7 × 10 −2 and 7.1 × 10 −3 , respectively). Discussion Our findings point to rs9357347 as a functional regulatory variant that contributes to a protective effect observed at the TREM locus in the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project genome-wide association study meta-analysis and suggest concomitant increase in TREML1 and TREM2 brain levels as a potential mechanism for protection from AD.
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