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Impact of Genetic Polymorphisms on Human Immune Cell Gene Expression

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Schmiedel, Benjamin J., Singh, Divya, Madrigal, Ariel, Valdovino-Gonzalez, Alan G., White, Brandie M., Zapardiel-Gonzalo, Jose, Ha, Brendan, Altay, Gokmen, Greenbaum, Jason A., McVicker, Graham, Seumois, Grégory, Rao, Anjana, Kronenberg, Mitchell, Peters, Bjoern, Vijayanand, Pandurangan·2018·Cell

DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.022PMC PMC6289654

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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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“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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“NAB1 knockdown also reduced IFN-γ release when NK cells were activated by co-culture with MHC devoid K-562 cancer cells”
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“rs12936231, a variant associated with several autoimmune diseases and asthma, whose functional effects have been previously described (Schmiedel et al., 2016), is associated with the modulation of expression of ORMDL3 and GSDMB in lymphocyte subsets and not in cells of myeloid origin.”
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“Knocking down SYNGR1 also impacted cytokine production by activated NK cells”
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“We found that reducing NAB1 expression in NK cells significantly reduced the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines such as IFN-γ, MIP-1β, RANTES and TNF by human NK cells activated by IgG crosslinking”
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“We found that LACC1 knockdown in CD4+ T cells when compared to control siRNA treatment resulted in significantly reduced activation (CD25 and HLA-DR surface expression) and expression of cytokine transcripts (IFNG and IL2) following TLR1/2 co-stimulation and CD3/CD28 stimulation”
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“about 19% of all the eGenes identified in each human immune cell type (2,297 unique GWAS eGenes; 599 to 987 eGenes/cell type) were also associated with GWAS SNPs”
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“We found that IL22 transcript level was most significantly reduced in FAM13A knock down conditions compared to control siRNA treatment”
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“We then independently confirmed at the protein level a significant reduction in the proportion of IL-22 producing memory CD4+ T cells following FAM13A knockdown”
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“Our results suggested that FAM13A is a positive regulator of IL-22 production by memory CD4+ T cells”
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“and thus females with higher expression of FAM13A are likely to have more pronounced IL-22 responses in vivo”
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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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- Rests on an assumption: Knockdown of a gene in immune cells reflects the functional consequence of genetically reduced expression of that gene.
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“To diminish the effects of possible outliers, the regularized log transformation of the DESeq2 package (Love et al., 2014) was applied and the homoscedastic data were then quantile-normalized.”
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  “The regularized log transformation of the DESeq2 package (Love et al., 2014) was applied and the homoscedastic data were then quantile-normalized to diminish the effects of possible outliers.”
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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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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.
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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.
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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: Schmiedel, Benjamin J.
Singh, Divya
Madrigal, Ariel
White, Brandie M.
Greenbaum, Jason A.
McVicker, Graham
Seumois, Grégory
Rao, Anjana
Kronenberg, Mitchell
Peters, Bjoern
Vijayanand, Pandurangan
Venue: Cell
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2018-11
Volume: 175
Issue: 6
Pages: 1701-1715.e16
ISSN: 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.022
PMC: PMC6289654
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Funders: B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (S10RR027366, S10OD016262)
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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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