在UBE2E2附近的非编码变异通过多基因效应器编排心脏代谢病变型
Yang Zhang1,2,3, Natalie L David2, Tristan Pesaresi2,3
1School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
JCI insight
|December 10, 2024
概括
非编码DNA中的遗传变异可以通过影响多个基因来影响2型糖尿病等复杂疾病. 这项研究揭示了多基因调节效应,其中变异影响远处基因,有助于疾病机制.
科学领域:
- 遗传学 遗传学 是一个
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 代谢疾病 代谢疾病
背景情况:
- 全基因组关联研究 (GWAS) 识别了与复杂疾病相关的遗传变异,但潜在的机制,特别是非编码变异,往往不清楚.
- 2型糖尿病 (T2D) 和内脏肥胖症涉及复杂的遗传因素和组织特异性机制.
- 了解非编码变异在T2D发病过程中的作用,对于开发有效的治疗策略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查与T2D和UBE2E2位点内脏脂肪相关的非编码单核酸变异 (SNV) 的功能影响.
- 确定这些非编码SNVs影响的候选cis调节元素和因果基因.
- 阐明代谢疾病中非编码变异的多基因调节效应.
主要方法:
- 针对含有SNV的区域进行CRISPR向和CRISPR干扰 (CRISPRi) 查,以确定监管要素.
- 在饮食诱导肥胖的小鼠模型中进行遗传功能丧失研究.
- 活体脂肪生成试验,以评估对脂肪细胞分化的影响.
- 遗传学和功能性基因组学方法的整合.
主要成果:
- 在UBE2E2位点的非编码变异影响了多个基因的调节,包括UBE2E2,UBE2E1和邻近基因.
- 在UBE2E2附近准多个基因在体外减弱脂肪生成.
- 在小鼠中,Ube2e2和Ube2e1的复合异性功能丧失更好地复制了病理性脂肪和代谢表型,而不是单独对任何一种基因的同性损失.
- 非编码变异的调节效应超出了最近的基因范围.
结论:
- 非编码变体可以产生多基因调节效应,影响多个基因并导致T2D等复杂疾病.
- 二型糖尿病的致病机制可能涉及通过非编码变异对多个基因的协调调节.
- 这项研究提供了一个模型来理解远端非编码变异如何驱动复杂疾病表型.
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