最小的框架确定了一个新的基因组功能元素类别,并揭示了人类疾病基因的调节机制
Michael J Betti1, Melinda C Aldrich1, Eric R Gamazon1,2
1Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
|July 3, 2023
概括
CoRE-BED是一个新的框架,使用表观基因组数据识别了新的监管元素,如发展相关元素 (DAE). 这些元素对于理解细胞类型特异性功能和特征遗传性至关重要.
科学领域:
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 表观遗传学 在表观遗传学中,表观遗传学是指表观遗传学.
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
背景情况:
- 了解细胞类型特定的基因调节对于破译复杂的特征至关重要.
- 预测cis-regulatory元素的现有方法在捕获新功能类别方面存在局限性.
研究的目的:
- 引入CORE-BED,这是一个新的框架,用于使用表观基因组数据预测细胞类型特定的调节功能.
- 确定和描述新类的监管要素,包括与发展相关的要素 (DAE).
- 评估不同监管要素对特征遗传性的贡献.
主要方法:
- 经过训练的CoRE-BED使用了33种细胞和组织类型的19种表观遗传特征.
- 确定了九个功能性监管类de-novo.
- 分析了发展相关元素 (DAE) 的丰富和表观遗传特征.
- 量化了GWAS中远隔离器捕获的SNP遗传性的比例,用于70个复杂的特征.
主要成果:
- CoRE-BED成功地确定了九个功能性监管类,包括一个名为发展关联元件 (DAE) 的新型类.
- DAE富含再生细胞类型,并表现出明显的双价表观遗传特征.
- 在干细胞分化过程中,DAE在功能和非功能状态之间直接过渡.
- 远端绝缘体解释了SNP复杂特征遗传率的最大比例 (~49%).
结论:
- CoRE-BED提供了一个强大的框架,用于发现和分类细胞类型特定的监管元素.
- 发展相关要素 (DAE) 代表了一类重要的监管要素,此前的特征不足.
- 非传统的监管分类,如CoRE-BED所识别的分类,对特征遗传性研究有价值,并补充了现有的cis-regulatory预测方法.
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