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Allelic expression mapping across cellular lineages to establish impact of non-coding SNPs.

Molecular systems biology (2014-10-19)
Veronique Adoue, Alicia Schiavi, Nicholas Light, Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Per Lundmark, Bing Ge, Tony Kwan, Maxime Caron, Lars Rönnblom, Chuan Wang, Shu-Huang Chen, Alison H Goodall, Francois Cambien, Panos Deloukas, Willem H Ouwehand, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Tomi Pastinen
ABSTRACT

Most complex disease-associated genetic variants are located in non-coding regions and are therefore thought to be regulatory in nature. Association mapping of differential allelic expression (AE) is a powerful method to identify SNPs with direct cis-regulatory impact (cis-rSNPs). We used AE mapping to identify cis-rSNPs regulating gene expression in 55 and 63 HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines from a Caucasian and an African population, respectively, 70 fibroblast cell lines, and 188 purified monocyte samples and found 40-60% of these cis-rSNPs to be shared across cell types. We uncover a new class of cis-rSNPs, which disrupt footprint-derived de novo motifs that are predominantly bound by repressive factors and are implicated in disease susceptibility through overlaps with GWAS SNPs. Finally, we provide the proof-of-principle for a new approach for genome-wide functional validation of transcription factor-SNP interactions. By perturbing NFκB action in lymphoblasts, we identified 489 cis-regulated transcripts with altered AE after NFκB perturbation. Altogether, we perform a comprehensive analysis of cis-variation in four cell populations and provide new tools for the identification of functional variants associated to complex diseases.

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