Project description:Observational, Multicenter, Post-market, Minimal risk, Prospective data collection of PillCam SB3 videos (including PillCam reports) and raw data files and optional collection of Eneteroscopy reports
Project description:Tiller angle is a key factor determining rice plant architecture, planting density, light interception, photosynthetic efficiency, disease resistance, and grain yield. The distribution of auxin and shoot gravitropism play important roles in regulating tiller angles of rice. Several tiller angle-associated genes have been cloned. However, the mechanisms underlying tiller angle control are far from clear. In this study, we isolate bta1-1, a mutant with an enlarged tiller angle throughout its life cycle. A detailed analysis reveals that BTA1 has multiple functions because several major agronomic traits, including tiller and panicle number, biomass production, secondary branch number per panicle, panicle weight, grain size, and grain weight, are increased in bta1-1 plants. Moreover, BTA1 is a positive regulator of shoot gravitropism in rice. Shoot responses to gravistimulation are disrupted in bta1-1 under both light and dark conditions. Gene cloning reveals that bta1-1 is a novel mutant allele of LA1. LA1 is able to rescue the tiller angle and shoot gravitropism defects observed in bta1-1. BTA1/LA1 is required to regulate the expression of auxin transporters and signaling factors that control shoot gravitropism and tiller angle. High-throughput mRNA sequencing is performed to elucidate the molecular and cellular functions of BTA1/LA1. The results show that BTA1/LA1 may have multiple functions in regulating nucleosome and chromatin assembly, and protein and DNA interactions. Our results provide new insight into the mechanisms whereby BTA1/LA1 controls shoot gravitropism and tiller angle in rice.
Project description:Although genetic studies have identified many hundreds of loci associated with human traits and diseases, pinpointing the causal alleles remains difficult, particularly for non-coding variants. To address this challenge, we have enhanced the sensitivity and reproducibility of the massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA), adapting it to identify variants that directly modulate gene expression. We then applied it to over 29,000 single nucleotide and insertion/deletion polymorphisms from 3,965 cis-expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). We demonstrate strong correlation between our MPRA approach and existing measures of regulatory function, and determine an approximate sensitivity of ~20% with a positive predictive value of 60-65% to detect an eQTL causal allele. We identify 842 variants showing differential expression between alleles, including 53 well-annotated variants associated with diseases and traits. Thus, we have created a resource of concrete leads for understanding the genetic basis of specific phenotypes and illustrate the promise of this kind of approach for comprehensively interrogating how non-coding polymorphism shapes human biology. The study consists of two separate MPRA experiments, a 78,958 oligo (79k study) and a 7,500 oligo library (7.5k). For each library we processed independent transfections into two lymphoblastoid cell lines; in total we completed 5 replicates of NA12878 and 3 replicates of NA19239. For the 79k library we also performed 5 replicate transfections into the hepatocarcinoma cell line HepG2. Raw data is provided as Illumina reads of the 20 bp barcode from the RNA extracted 24 hours post transfection as well as from the plasmid library used for transfection. We also provide oligo/barcode combinations from the âgfp vector in the form of a tab delimited file containing the raw sequence reads of the barcode (column 1) and genomic sequence (column 2). Processed count files are unnormalized counts for each oligo acquired by summing all barcode matches together for each replicate.
Project description:Temporal analysis of Irf4 and PU.1 genome binding during B cell activation and differentiation in vitro using antigen (NP-Ficoll) CD40L and IL-2/4/5 cytokines (see Molecular Systems Biology 7:495 for details of cellular system). The results provide insight in the target genes and binding specificity of IRF4 and PU.1 during coordination of different programs of B cell differentiation. Regrettably three of the FASTQ raw sequence files in our study were corrupted during storage. FASTQ data from our experimental and control groups are available for download via GEO SRA; however, two groups are missing select raw sequence files. These include one PU.1 Day 3 group file (Sample GSM1133499) and two of four input files used to generate a concatenated “super” input file (Sample GSM1133490); the raw data provided for input consists of the two input files recovered. Importantly, FASTA sequences for both of these datasets are available as supplementary data through GEO, and we can make available upon request (rsciamma@uchicago.edu) all files in our study in the ELAND-extended alignment format. Please note that GEO no longer supports this format.