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人类大脑中单细胞染色质可访问性的比较图谱
Yang Eric Li1, Sebastian Preissl2, Michael Miller2
1Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 12, 2023
概括
这项研究使用snATAC-seq绘制了人类大脑细胞类型及其调节性DNA元素. 它将特定的细胞类型与神经精神障碍联系起来,并确定小鼠中保存的调节元素.
科学领域:
- 神经科学
- 基因组学
- 表观遗传学
背景情况:
- 单细胞转录学揭示了脑细胞的多样性, 但调节机制仍然难以捉摸.
- 了解基因调控对于解读人类大脑中的细胞身份和功能至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了全面地绘制人类大脑中的 chromatin 景观.
- 识别不同的细胞类型及其相关的 cis-regulatory DNA 元素 (cCREs).
- 研究细胞类型特异性调节元件与神经精神疾病之间的联系.
主要方法:
- 使用来自42个人类大脑区域的110万个细胞的转化酶可访问染色体测定 (snATAC-seq).
- 集成的snATAC-seq数据来定义细胞类型及其cCRE利用率.
- 用小鼠大脑细胞进行了跨物种的染色质可访问性比较.
- 开发了深度学习模型来预测非编码风险变体的功能.
主要成果:
- 确定了107种不同的人类脑细胞类型,并描述了544,735个cCREs的使用情况.
- 发现大约三分之一的cCREs在小鼠大脑细胞中被保存并可访问.
- 确立了特定脑细胞类型与主要神经精神疾病 (精神分裂症,双相情感障碍,阿尔茨海默病,严重抑郁症) 之间的强烈关联.
结论:
- 这项工作提供了人类大脑表观基因组和细胞类型特定的调节元素的高分辨率地图.
- 这些发现突显了特定细胞类型及其调节元件在神经精神疾病病因中的作用.
- 深度学习模型提供了一种强大的方法来解释与这些疾病相关的非编码遗传变异.
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