Generation of primary human intestinal T cell transcriptomes reveals differential expression at genetic risk loci for immune-mediated disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants within multiple risk loci as predisposing to intestinal inflammatory diseases, including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and coeliac disease. Most risk variants affect regulation of transcription, but a critical challenge is to identify which genes and which cell types these variants affect. We aimed to characterise whole transcriptomes for each common T lymphocyte subset resident within the gut mucosa, and use these to infer biological insights and highlight candidate genes of interest within GWAS risk loci.

Design

We isolated the four major intestinal T cell populations from pinch biopsies from healthy subjects and generated transcriptomes for each. We computationally integrated these tra

SUBMITTER: Raine T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4316924 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature