RRC ID 57882
著者 Wong JH, Shigemizu D, Yoshii Y, Akiyama S, Tanaka A, Nakagawa H, Narumiya S, Fujimoto A.
タイトル Identification of intermediate-sized deletions and inference of their impact on gene expression in a human population.
ジャーナル Genome Med
Abstract BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing has allowed for the identification of different genetic variations, which are known to contribute to diseases. Of these, insertions and deletions are the second most abundant type of variations in the genome, but their biological importance or disease association is not well-studied, especially for deletions of intermediate sizes.
METHODS:We identified intermediate-sized deletions from whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data of Japanese samples (n = 174) with a novel deletion calling method which considered multiple samples. These deletions were used to construct a reference panel for use in imputation. Imputation was then conducted using the reference panel and data from 82 publically available Japanese samples with gene expression data. The accuracy of the deletion calling and imputation was examined with Nanopore long-read sequencing technology. We also conducted an expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) association analysis using the deletions to infer their functional impacts on genes, before characterizing the deletions causal for gene expression level changes.
RESULTS:We obtained a set of polymorphic 4378 high-confidence deletions and constructed a reference panel. The deletions were successfully imputed into the Japanese samples with high accuracy (97.3%). The eQTL analysis identified 181 deletions (4.1%) suggested as causal for gene expression level changes. The causal deletion candidates were significantly enriched in promoters, super-enhancers, and transcription elongation chromatin states. Generation of deletions in a cell line with the CRISPR-Cas9 system confirmed that they were indeed causative variants for gene expression change. Furthermore, one of the deletions was observed to affect the gene expression levels of a gene it was not located in.
CONCLUSIONS:This paper reports an accurate deletion calling method for genotype imputation at the whole genome level and shows the importance of intermediate-sized deletions in the human population.
巻・号 11(1)
ページ 44
公開日 2019-7-24
DOI 10.1186/s13073-019-0656-4
PII 10.1186/s13073-019-0656-4
PMID 31340865
PMC PMC6657090
MeSH CRISPR-Cas Systems Computational Biology / methods Epistasis, Genetic* Gene Expression Regulation* Genetics, Population* Genome, Human Genomics / methods High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Humans Molecular Sequence Annotation Phylogeny Quantitative Trait Loci Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid Reproducibility of Results Sequence Deletion* Whole Genome Sequencing
IF 10.886
引用数 0
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 293T(RCB2202)