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Impact of Genetic Polymorphisms on Human Immune Cell Gene Expression
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SUMMARY While many genetic variants have been associated with risk for human diseases, how these variants affect gene expression in various cell types remains largely unknown. To address this gap, the DICE (Database of Immune Cell Expression, Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) and Epigenomics) project was established. Considering all human immune cell types and conditions studied, we identified cis-eQTLs for a total of 12,254 unique genes, which represent 61% of all protein-coding genes expressed in these cell types. Strikingly, a large fraction (41%) of these genes showed a strong cis-association with genotype only in a single cell type. We also found that biological sex is associated with major differences in immune cell gene expression in a highly cell-specific manner. These datasets will help reveal the effects of disease risk-associated genetic polymorphisms on specific immune cell types, providing mechanistic insights into how they might influence pathogenesis (http://dice-database.org).
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The DICE project mapped transcriptomes and cis-eQTLs across 13 human immune cell types and activation conditions from 91 healthy subjects, identifying 12,254 eGenes with highly cell-specific genetic effects. It also found extensive sex-biased immune gene expression and linked GWAS disease variants to specific immune cell types.
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- cis-eQTLs were identified for 12,254 unique genes, representing 61% of expressed protein-coding genes and 49% of lncRNAs; 41% showed a strong cis-association with genotype in only a single cell type. More than 2,000 eGenes were found per common cell type, and CD4+ memory/TREG subsets yielded over 7,800 eGenes, of which >2,500 were unique to those subsets.
- About 19% of eGenes per immune cell type overlapped GWAS SNPs (2,297 unique GWAS eGenes; 599–987 eGenes/cell type), and for about 36% of these eGenes associations were observed in only one or two cell types. Examples included IRAK3 in naïve B cells (rs1732886, adj. P = 6.82 × 10−17) and NAB1 in NK cells (rs13028201, adj. P = 1.41 × 10−14).
- Sex-biased expression was found for 1,875 unique transcripts, including 1,553 protein-coding transcripts and 196 lncRNAs; 93% were autosomal and >72% showed sex-biased expression in only a single immune cell type. FAM13A was female-biased in naïve CD4+ T cells, with homozygous CC versus TT females showing 3.5-fold greater FAM13A transcripts compared to <1.5-fold in males.
- Cell-specific transcriptional signatures included 4,602 highly cell-specific transcripts, and differential expression among CD4+ T cell subsets revealed over 700 genes enriched in one specific subset.
Methods
- The study analyzed 13 immune cell types plus activated naïve CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from 106 leukapheresis samples provided by 91 healthy subjects (54 males, 37 females; median age 27 years, range 18–61).
- RNA-seq was performed on FACS-sorted cells, with genotyping and imputation using the 1,000 Genomes Project phase 3 reference; cis-eQTLs were tested within ±1 Mb of the transcription start site using Matrix eQTL with thresholds FDR < 0.05, raw P < 0.0001, and TPM > 1.0.
- Differential expression used DESeq2; GWAS overlap used PheGenI data with 14,321 lead GWAS SNPs and 846 traits; functional validation used siRNA knockdowns in primary immune cells.
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- The paper states that next phases of DICE will add additional rare immune cell types and cell-specific epigenomic profiles, and that several lncRNA and disease-gene links require further study and functional confirmation.
- The cohort was limited to 91 healthy volunteers from the San Diego area with a median age of 27 years, so generalizability to older, diseased, or more ancestrally diverse populations is not established by this dataset.
- The eQTL analysis did not cover the pseudoautosomal regions of chr X or chr Y (stated in the paper), and it focused on cis windows of ±1 Mb around the TSS rather than trans effects.
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“which as a class were expressed at lower levels compared to protein-coding transcripts”
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“Considering all human immune cell types and conditions studied, we identified cis-eQTLs for a total of 12,254 unique genes”
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“RNA-Seq analysis showed that similar numbers of transcripts (ranging from 14,500 to 17,000, ~39% of all annotated transcripts) were detected (>1.0 transcripts per million, TPM) across all cell types and activation conditions”
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“We also found that biological sex is associated with major differences in immune cell gene expression in a highly cell-specific manner.”
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“representing 61% of all expressed protein-coding genes and 49% of all lncRNAs, respectively”
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“Strikingly, a large fraction (41%) of these genes showed a strong cis-association with genotype only in a single cell type.”
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“Interestingly, several lncRNAs showed high abundance in specific immune cell types.”
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“We also identified 2 genes in the Fc receptor like (FCRL) gene locus that showed strong cis-eQTLs primarily in TREG subsets”
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“NCF4, which encodes neutrophilic cytosolic factor 4, a component of the NADPH oxidase complex, showed prominent cis-QTLs specifically in CD4+ T subsets”
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“About 18% of these transcripts were long-noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)”
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“Though a majority of transcripts were detected in multiple cell types (Fig. S1H,I), their relative abundance varied substantially, resulting in distinct clustering patterns of different cell types”
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“The PBC-risk variant rs74804869 influenced SYNGR1 expression in NK and also CD8+ T cells”
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“Our eQTL analysis of CD4+ memory and TREG subsets yielded over 7,800 eGenes, of which >2,500 were unique to these subsets”
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“the CD-risk variant (rs9567293C/C) was associated with reduced expression of LACC1 in CD4+ memory T cell subsets, as well as in resting and activated naïve T cells but not in monocytes”
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“we found that the expression of NAB1 displayed prominent genotype-dependent association (rs13028201, adj. P = 1.41 × 10−14) only in NK cells”
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“CCNG2, encoding for a cell cycle protein, cyclin G2, showed a peak eQTL (rs4859751) specifically in TH1/17 and TH17 cells although it was also highly expressed in other TH subsets and immune cell types”
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“an RA-risk variant (rs3093026) and celiac disease-risk variant (rs7374671) that were associated with expression of chemokine receptor genes CCR6 and CCR2, respectively, in TH1/17 and TH17 subsets”
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“1,875 unique transcripts, including 1,553 protein-coding transcripts and 196 lncRNAs, were differentially expressed between sexes”
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“We also found a cis-eQTL (rs1246642) whose impact on expression was stronger in female subjects (Fig. 6F,G and Fig. S6B,C); homozygous females carrying the CC versus TT genotype had 3.5-fold greater levels of FAM13A transcripts compared to a <1.5-fold increase in males.”
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“TREG cells were most susceptible to the effects of several autoimmune disease-risk variants. Notable eGenes associated with these variants include IKZF4, PDE4A and PTGIR”
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“Together, these results suggested that PBC-risk variants that modulate NAB1 and SYNGR1 expression are likely to impact NK cell function and influence PBC disease susceptibility.”
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“The identity of all individual RNA-Seq samples was confirmed by cross-comparison with genotyping data for a given subject by genome-wide analysis of SNPs overlapping exons.”
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“Sex-biased transcripts were identified by performing pairwise comparison (female (n = 37) versus male (n = 54) subjects) using DESeq2 and considering ancestry and age as covariates; we considered a transcript expressed differentially when the DESeq2 analysis resulted in a Benjamini-Hochberg adj. P value of < 0.05.”
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“The data quality was assessed using the snpQC package (Gondro et al., 2014) for R v3.2.3 (http://www.R-project.org) and low-quality SNPs were removed for downstream analysis: SNPs failing in more than 5% of the samples and SNPs with Illumina’s GC scores less than 0.2 in more than 10% of the samples were filtered out.”
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“To define the collection of SNPs from GWAS studies, we downloaded the dataset of the Phenotype-Genotype Integrator (PheGenI) (Ramos et al., 2014), which merges NHGRI GWAS Catalog data with several databases of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), including Gene, dbGaP, OMIM, eQTL and dbSNP (September 2017; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gap/phegeni).”
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“the resulting catalog of SNP-trait associations included 14,321 significant associations (lead GWAS SNPs; defined as P < 5 × 10−8) and 846 distinct phenotypes/traits.”
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“Transcripts with mean TPM < 1.0 across all samples of a given cell type were excluded from the analysis.”
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“Thus, the products of autoimmune risk-eGenes PDE4A and PTGIR are likely to modulate cAMP-mediated immunoregulation and influence disease pathogenesis.”
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“Notably, the eQTL analysis did not cover the pseudoautosomal regions of chr X or chr Y, thereby slightly lowering the annotated transcript count from 57,820 to 57,215 (605 missing genes).”
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“SNPs missing for more than 5% of the samples or with a minimum allele frequency (MAF) lower than 5% were removed from the analysis.”
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“Briefly, transcripts with low expression values – the bottom one-third of all transcripts for at least 80% of the samples – were filtered out.”
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“The cohort consisted of 54 males and 37 female subjects with a median age of 27 years (range 18 to 61 years).”
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“Samples failing any quality control step (RNA quality and quantity, PCR amplification, library fragment size) were eliminated from further downstream steps.”
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“Any samples failing established quality controls (QC) were eliminated from downstream analysis; assay details and QCs on RNA-Seq samples included are provided in Table S1B (1,544 samples in total).”
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“Sequencing library preparation steps were performed in a 96-well format, utilizing the automated platform Biomek FXP (Beckman Coulter), to reduce assay-to-assay variability.”
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“A total of 91 healthy volunteers were recruited in the San Diego area, who provided leukapheresis samples at the San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) after written informed consent.”
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“All study subjects self-reported ethnicity and race details, and were tested negative for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).”
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Overlap between GWAS SNPs and eQTLs indicates that the disease risk variant modulates expression of the linked gene in the susceptible cell type.
“To shed light on the disease relevance of the eQTLs identified in human immune cells, we next focused on the subset of eGenes linked to eQTLs that directly overlapped haploblocks of significant GWAS SNPs”
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Knockdown of a gene in immune cells reflects the functional consequence of genetically reduced expression of that gene.
“As a first step in that process, we knocked down these genes in human NK cells and tested their impact on NK cell activity”
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The 13 immune cell types and activation conditions studied are representative enough of human immune cells to generalize eQTL and sex-biased expression findings.
“The cell types presented here comprise over 60% of all circulating mononuclear cells”
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“Within these correlated gene sets were genes known to be enriched or functionally important in the memory T cell subset driven by the TF in question, such as IL4R for GATA3 and CTLA4 for both Helios and FOXP324.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmiedel, B. J., Singh, D., Madrigal, A., Valdovino-Gonzalez, A. G., White, B. M., Zapardiel-Gonzalo, J., Ha, B., Altay, G., Greenbaum, J. A., McVicker, G., Seumois, G., Rao, A., Kronenberg, M., Peters, B., & Vijayanand, P.
- Affiliations
- La Jolla Institute for Immunology (US)
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies (US)
- Corresponding author
- Vijayanand, Pandurangan
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-11
- Volume
- 175
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1701-1715.e16
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6289654
- OpenAlex
- W2901765988
- Semantic Scholar
- 0b385de9f5adec440b108379bcbf8f8f00d13552
- Cited by
- 867
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 87 · 2025: 124 · 2024: 148 · 2023: 114 · 2022: 137 · 2021: 133 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 43 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 39.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (S10RR027366, S10OD016262)
- National Institutes of Health (R24 AI108564)
- William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Keywords
- genetic polymorphism, immune cell gene expression, cis-eQTL, expression quantitative trait loci, single-cell transcriptomics, sex differences in gene expression, cell type-specific gene regulation, immune cell types
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Sex Characteristics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Gene Expression Profiling, Quantitative Trait Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study
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