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Identification of 27 allele-specific regulatory variants in Parkinson's disease using a massively parallel reporter assay.

ABSTRACT: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a number of genomic loci that are associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) risk. However, the majority of these variants lie in non-coding regions, and thus the mechanisms by which they influence disease development, and/or potential subtypes, remain largely elusive. To address this, we used a massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) to screen the regulatory function of 5254 variants that have a known or putative connection to PD. We identified 138 loci with enhancer activity, of which 27 exhibited allele-specific regulatory activity in HEK293 cells. The identified regulatory variant(s) typically did not match the original tag variant within the PD associated locus, supporting the need for deeper exploration of these loci. The existence of allele specific transcriptional impacts within HEK293 cells, confirms that at least a subset of the PD associated regions mark functional gene regulatory elements. Future functional studies that confirm the putative targets of the empirically verified regulatory variants will be crucial for gaining a greater understanding of how gene regulatory network(s) modulate PD risk.

SUBMITTER: Farrow SL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10899198 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification of 27 allele-specific regulatory variants in Parkinson's disease using a massively parallel reporter assay.

Farrow Sophie L SL Gokuladhas Sreemol S Schierding William W Pudjihartono Michael M Perry Jo K JK Cooper Antony A AA O'Sullivan Justin M JM

NPJ Parkinson's disease 20240227 1

Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a number of genomic loci that are associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) risk. However, the majority of these variants lie in non-coding regions, and thus the mechanisms by which they influence disease development, and/or potential subtypes, remain largely elusive. To address this, we used a massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) to screen the regulatory function of 5254 variants that have a known or putative connection to PD. We identif ...[more]

PMID: 38413607

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Project description:MotivationThe majority of the human genome is composed of non-coding regions containing regulatory elements such as enhancers, which are crucial for controlling gene expression. Many variants associated with complex traits are in these regions, and may disrupt gene regulatory sequences. Consequently, it is important to not only identify true enhancers but also to test if a variant within an enhancer affects gene regulation. Recently, allele-specific analysis in high-throughput reporter assays, such as massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs), have been used to functionally validate non-coding variants. However, we are still missing high-quality and robust data analysis tools for these datasets.ResultsWe have further developed our method for allele-specific analysis QuASAR (quantitative allele-specific analysis of reads) to analyze allele-specific signals in barcoded read counts data from MPRA. Using this approach, we can take into account the uncertainty on the original plasmid proportions, over-dispersion, and sequencing errors. The provided allelic skew estimate and its standard error also simplifies meta-analysis of replicate experiments. Additionally, we show that a beta-binomial distribution better models the variability present in the allelic imbalance of these synthetic reporters and results in a test that is statistically well calibrated under the null. Applying this approach to the MPRA data, we found 602 SNPs with significant (false discovery rate 10%) allele-specific regulatory function in LCLs. We also show that we can combine MPRA with QuASAR estimates to validate existing experimental and computational annotations of regulatory variants. Our study shows that with appropriate data analysis tools, we can improve the power to detect allelic effects in high-throughput reporter assays.Availability and implementationhttp://github.com/piquelab/QuASAR/tree/master/mpra.Contactfluca@wayne.edu or rpique@wayne.edu.Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available online at Bioinformatics.

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Identification of 27 allele-specific regulatory variants in Parkinson's disease using a massively parallel reporter assay.

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Identification of 27 allele-specific regulatory variants in Parkinson's disease using a massively parallel reporter assay.

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