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Functional characterization of Alzheimer´s disease genetic variants in microglia

ABSTRACT: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative progressive disorder affecting 10% of people over 65. Less than 5% of patients have known causal genetic mutations while the exact cause of AD for the majority of patients, especially the late onset form, is unknown. Large scale epigenomic studies revealed that disease associated SNPs are highly enriched in cell-type-specific cis-regulatory elements. In AD, SNPs are more significantly enriched in the regulatory regions of myeloid lineages rather than the neuronal cells. However, how AD SNPs affect microglia enhancers, and more interestingly differentially affect state-specific enhancers such as activated upon stimulation, e.g. viral infection, remain largely unexplored. In this study we identified cis-regulatory elements in both resting and IFN-beta stimulated microglia and further functionally characterized how regulatory SNPs lead to immune response dysregulation in the pathogenesis of AD.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE206480 | GEO | 2023/07/31

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Chromatin profiling has emerged as a powerful means for annotating genomic elements and detecting regulatory activity. Here we generate and analyze a compendium of epigenomic maps for nine chromatin marks across nine cell types, in order to systematically characterize cis-regulatory elements, their cell type-specificities, and their functional interactions. We first identify recurrent combinations of histone modifications and use them to annotate diverse regulatory elements including promoters, enhancers, transcripts and insulators in each cell type. We next characterize the dynamics of these elements, revealing meaningful patterns of activity for promoter states and exquisite cell type-selectivity for enhancer states. We define multi-cell activity profiles that reflect the patterns of enhancer state activity across cell types, as well as analogous profiles for gene expression, regulatory motif enrichments, and expression of the corresponding regulators. We use correlations between these profiles to link enhancers to putative target genes, to infer cell type-specific activators and repressors, and to predict and validate functional regulator binding motifs in specific chromatin states. These functional annotations and regulatory predictions enable us to revisit intergenic single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with human disease in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We find that for several diseases, top-scoring SNPs are precisely positioned within enhancer elements specifically active in relevant cell types. In several cases a disease variant affects a motif instance for one of the predicted causal regulators, thus providing a potential mechanistic explanation for the disease association. Our study presents a general framework for applying multi-cell chromatin state analysis to decipher cis-regulatory connections and their role in health and disease. 9 human cell types were cultured in duplicate and subject to Affymetrix profiling

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