Project description:WD-repeat containing protein 26 (WDR26) is an essential component of the CTLH E3 ligase complex. Mutations in WDR26 lead to Skraban-Deardorff, an intellectual disability syndrome with clinical features resembling other disorders arising from defects in transcriptional regulation and chromatin structure. However, the role of WDR26 and its associated CTLH complex in regulating chromatin or transcription has not been elucidated. Here, we assessed how loss of WDR26 affects chromatin accessibility and gene expression. Transcriptome analysis of WDR26-null HeLa cells revealed over 2000 differentially expressed genes, while ATAC-Seq analysis showed over 32 000 differentially accessible chromatin regions, the majority mapping to intergenic and intronic regions and 13% mapping to promoters. Above all, we found that WDR26 loss affected expression of genes regulated by AP-1 and NF-1 transcription factors and resulted in dramatic changes in their chromatin accessibility. Overall, our analyses implicate WDR26 and the CTLH complex in chromatin regulation.
Project description:WD-repeat containing protein 26 (WDR26) is an essential component of the CTLH E3 ligase complex. Mutations in WDR26 lead to Skraban-Deardorff, an intellectual disability syndrome with clinical features resembling other disorders arising from defects in transcriptional regulation and chromatin structure. However, the role of WDR26 and its associated CTLH complex in regulating chromatin or transcription has not been elucidated. Here, we assessed how loss of WDR26 affects chromatin accessibility and gene expression. Transcriptome analysis of WDR26-null HeLa cells revealed over 2000 differentially expressed genes, while ATAC-Seq analysis showed over 32 000 differentially accessible chromatin regions, the majority mapping to intergenic and intronic regions and 13% mapping to promoters. Above all, we found that WDR26 loss affected expression of genes regulated by AP-1 and NF-1 transcription factors and resulted in dramatic changes in their chromatin accessibility. Overall, our analyses implicate WDR26 and the CTLH complex in chromatin regulation.
2025-01-21 | GSE273060 | GEO
Project description:Whole exome sequencing identified novel variants in five CHARGE syndrome patients
Project description:Wdr26 is a gene induced during red cell development. In order to understand the function of wdr26 during erythropoiesis, we analyzed the transcriptomes of wild type and Wdr26-knockout mouse eythroleukemia (MEL) cells. We found that loss of Wdr26 did not cause a global increase in the expression of genes that encode nuclear proteins.
Project description:We perform the first two-stage GWAS on TB in the Chinese population. We examined 900,015 genetic variants in 1,008 TB patients using the HumanOmniZhongHua-8 v1.1 BeadChip.
Project description:Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae. Genetic association studies indicated that leprosy risk is strongly associated with variation within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region, but the full number of variants in this region has yet to be elucidated. To identify further susceptibility loci or loss of function variants for this disease, we performed fine-mapping analysis of the MHC region using a Han Chinese reference panel (n= 10,689 patients, 29,948 genetic markers) in the data sets from our previous leprosy studies. Then, a fixed-effect meta-analysis was carried out separately for Chinese (case=2,901, control=3,801) and North Chinese (case=1,983, control=2,635) participants. The meta-analysis of Chinese participants identified 10 HLA-type or amino acid variants with lower than the genome-wide significant susceptibility signal. Next, gene-by-gene step-wise conditional analysis was performed in the combined dataset of these cohorts. Finally, we identified four new independent susceptibility loci (HLA-DQA1, HLA-C, rs3129063, and rs58327373) and confirmed one previously reported locus (HLA-DRB1) that significantly associated with leprosy in the Chinese Han population. Thus the results of this study increase knowledge about leprosy risk variants and illustrate the value of HLA imputation for fine mapping of causal variants in the MHC.
2018-09-30 | GSE119367 | GEO
Project description:Novel IRF2BP2 variants in CVID patients
Project description:Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare inherited connective tissue dysplasia characterized with skeletal fragility, recurrent fractures and bone deformity, predominantly caused by mutations in the genes COL1A1 or COL1A2 that encode the chains of type I collagen. In the present study, clinical manifestations and genetic variants were analysed from 188 Chinese OI patients, majority of which are of southern China origin. By targeted sequencing, 64 and 58 OI patients were found carrying mutations in COL1A1 and COL1A2 respectively, including 12 novel COL1A1 and 8 novel COL1A2 variants. We identified a COL1A1 hotspot (c.G2461A; p.G821S) in 8 patients and validated two novel splicing mutations. A diverse mutational and phenotypic spectrum was observed, coupling with heterogeneity observed in the transcriptomic data (n=6) derived from osteoblasts of our cohort. Missense mutations were significantly associated (χ2 p=0.0096) with a cluster of patients with more severe clinical phenotypes. Additionally, the severity of OI was more correlated with the quality of bones, rather than the bone mineral density. Bone density is most responsive to bisphosphonate (BP) treatment during the juvenile stage (10-15 y/o). In contrast, height is not responsive to bisphosphonate treatment. Our findings expand the mutational spectrum of type I collagen genes and the genotype-phenotype correlation in Chinese OI patients. The observation of effective BP treatment in an age-specific manner may help to improve OI patient management.