人类发育皮层中的监管元素的大规模并行表征
Chengyu Deng1,2, Sean Whalen3, Marilyn Steyert4,5,6,7,8,9
1Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
这项研究绘制了人类大脑中的基因调节元件,确定了成千上万种影响神经元发育和疾病的活性增强剂和变体. 大脑器官有效地模拟发育中的皮质.
科学领域:
- 遗传学
- 神经科学
- 发育生物学
背景情况:
- 基因调节元件中的核酸变化显著影响神经元发育和相关疾病.
- 了解这些元素对于破译大脑功能和病理学至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 综合地绘制和描述人类发育中的 cis-regulatory 元素及其变体.
- 验证使用大脑器官作为研究人类皮质发育的模型.
主要方法:
- 在人类皮质细胞和大脑器官上进行了大量的并行测试.
- 分析了超过10万个开放的染色体区域,包括特定细胞类型和与疾病相关的序列.
- 使用深度学习模型来解码增强剂活性的序列决定因素和调控因素.
主要成果:
- 在原始细胞中确定了46,802个活性增强剂序列.
- 发现了164种可显著改变增强剂活性的变种.
- 在大脑器官和原发皮质细胞中表现出相似的调节元素活性.
结论:
- 大脑器官可以作为研究人类皮质发育的有效模型.
- 这项工作提供了对人类神经元发育至关重要的功能基因调节元素和变异的全面目录.
- 这些发现为大脑发育和神经疾病的遗传基础提供了洞察力.
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