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DNA methylation in schizophrenia in different patient-derived cell types

ABSTRACT: DNA methylation of gene promoter regions represses transcription and is a mechanism via which environmental risk factors could affect cells during development in individuals at risk for schizophrenia. We investigated DNA methylation in patient-derived cells that might shed light on early development in schizophrenia. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) may reflect a âground stateâ upon which developmental and environmental influences would be minimal. Olfactory neurosphere-derived cells (ONS cells) are an adult-derived neuro-ectodermal stem cell modified by developmental and environmental influences. Fibroblasts provide a non-neural control for life-long developmental and environmental influences. Genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation and gene expression was done in these three cell types from the same individuals. All cell types had distinct, statistically significant schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation and linked gene expression, with Gene Ontology analysis showing that the differentially affected genes clustered in networks associated with cell growth, proliferation and movement, functions known to be affected in schizophrenia patient-derived cells. Only 5 gene loci were differentially methylated in all three cell types. These findings suggest that schizophrenia-associated DNA methylation may be a response to the homeostatic demands of different cell types in their local environments. Understanding the role of epigenetics in cell function in the brain in schizophrenia is likely to be complicated by similar cell type differences in intrinsic and environmentally-induced epigenetic regulation. This dataset represents the gene expression part of the study. The DNA methylation data is deposited under accession E-MTAB-2154.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Nicholas Matigian

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-5016 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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DNA methylation in schizophrenia in different patient-derived cell types.

Vitale Alejandra M AM Matigian Nicholas A NA Cristino Alexandre S AS Nones Katia K Ravishankar Sugandha S Bellette Bernadette B Fan Yongjun Y Wood Stephen A SA Wolvetang Ernst E Mackay-Sim Alan A

NPJ schizophrenia 20170123

DNA methylation of gene promoter regions represses transcription and is a mechanism via which environmental risk factors could affect cells during development in individuals at risk for schizophrenia. We investigated DNA methylation in patient-derived cells that might shed light on early development in schizophrenia. Induced pluripotent stem cells may reflect a "ground state" upon which developmental and environmental influences would be minimal. Olfactory neurosphere-derived cells are an adult- ...[more]

PMID: 28560252

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Project description:Epigenetics describes mechanisms via which the environment can act on the genome, including DNA methylation of promoter regions of genes. This could be a way that environmental risk factors could affect neurodevelopment in individuals at risk for schizophrenia. Patient-derived cells provide a means whereby epigenetics and gene-environment interactions might be investigated. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) present an attractive patient-derived cellular model because they can be differentiated into cell types of interest in schizophrenia. In this study the influence of the reprogramming process on schizophrenia-associated DNA methylation was investigated through genome-wide DNA methylation profiling and gene expression of patient-derived iPS cells and the fibroblasts from which they were derived. Olfactory neurosphere-derived cells (ONS cells) from the same patients were also profiled to provide a window on epigenetic regulation in three distinct cell types. Patient-derived cell were compared to cells derived from healthy controls to identify differences in DNA methylation and gene expression associated with schizophrenia in three cell types. The main finding is that iPS cells, prior to neuronal differentiation, demonstrated significant schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation. This is in contrast to the fibroblasts from which they were derived, which show lesser schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation. Like iPS cells, ONS cells showed robust significant schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation. Notably, the schizophrenia-associated differences in DNA methylation were unique for each cell type, with little overlap between them, and only 5 genes commonly methylated in all cell types. Gene expression differences among the cell types mirrored the DNA methylation differences in magnitude, again with little overlap in specific genes affected. Gene Ontology analysis of the affected genes identified common cellular process affected in all three cell types without the same genes contributing. These data suggest that most DNA methylation differences are driven by the demands imposed by each cell type with schizophrenia-associated differences also being cell-type specific. Thus DNA methylation may not be a cause of schizophrenia-associated differences in cell functions in these cells but rather a downstream consequence of some unidentified causative mechanisms. This dataset represents the DNA methylation part of the study. The gene expression data is deposited under accession E-MTAB-5016.

Project description:Human epidemiologic and animal model data indicate that early environmental influences can persistently alter an individual’s risk of obesity. Environmental effects on hypothalamic developmental epigenetics provide a strong candidate mechanism to explain such ‘developmental programming’ of obesity. To advance our understanding of these processes, it is essential to determine to what extent the diversity of hypothalamic cell types is regulated by epigenetic differences, and when these are established. By performing genome-scale DNA methylation profiling in hypothalamic neurons and non-neuronal cells at postnatal day 0 (P0) and P21, we found that most of the DNA methylation differences distinguishing these two cell types are established postnatally. We found dramatic neuron-specific increases in DNA methylation from P0 to P21. Gene ontology analyses indicated that cell-type specific P0 to P21 methylation changes are key regulators of hypothalamic development. Quantitative bisulfite pyrosequencing verified our methylation profiling results in 16 of 16 selected regions. Expression differences were associated with DNA methylation in several genes analyzed. Our data indicate that future studies of hypothalamic epigenetics in developmental programming of obesity will gain far greater sensitivity and insight by examining outcomes at the cell-type specific level. Moreover, our results provide new evidence that early postnatal life is a critical period for murine hypothalamic developmental epigenetics. Hypothalami were dissected from inbred male C57 mice at postnatal day 0 (P0) and P21. Non-neuronal and neuronal nuclei were separated via fluorescence-activated sorting based on staining for the neuron-specific nuclear surface marker NeuN; each sample for sorting was comprised of 2 age-matched hypothalami. Genome-scale DNA methylation profiling was performed by methylation specific amplification coupled with next generation sequencing (MSA-seq) as decribed below (5 independent samples per age).

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DNA methylation in schizophrenia in different patient-derived cell types

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DNA methylation in schizophrenia in different patient-derived cell types.

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