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A hidden layer of structural variation in transposable elements reveals potential genetic modifiers in human disease-risk loci

ABSTRACT: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been highly informative in discovering disease-associated loci, but are not designed to capture all structural variations in the human genome. Using long-read sequencing data, we discovered widespread structural variation within SVA (Sine-VNTR-Alu) elements, a class of great-ape specific transposable elements with gene-regulatory roles, which represents a major source of structural variability in the human population. We highlight the presence of structurally variable SVAs (SV-SVAs) in neurological disease-associated loci, and further associate SV-SVAs to disease-associated SNPs and differential gene expression using luciferase assays and expression quantitative trait loci data. Finally, we genetically deleted SV-SVAs in the BIN1 and CD2AP Alzheimer-associated risk loci and in the BCKDK Parkinson disease-associated risk locus and assessed multiple aspects of their gene-regulatory influence in a human neuronal context. Together, this study reveals a novel layer of genetic variation in transposable elements that may contribute to identification of the structural variants that are the actual drivers of disease-associations of GWAS loci.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE167409 | GEO | 2022/01/17

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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