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Integrative single-cell analysis of transcriptional and epigenetic states in the human adult brain
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Detailed characterization of the cell types in the human brain requires scalable experimental approaches to examine multiple aspects of the molecular state of individual cells, as well as computational integration of the data to produce unified cell-state annotations. Here we report improved high-throughput methods for single-nucleus droplet-based sequencing (snDrop-seq) and single-cell transposome hypersensitive site sequencing (scTHS-seq). We used each method to acquire nuclear transcriptomic and DNA accessibility maps for >60,000 single cells from human adult visual cortex, frontal cortex, and cerebellum. Integration of these data revealed regulatory elements and transcription factors that underlie cell-type distinctions, providing a basis for the study of complex processes in the brain, such as genetic programs that coordinate adult remyelination. We also mapped disease-associated risk variants to specific cellular populations, which provided insights into normal and pathogenic cellular processes in the human brain. This integrative multi-omics approach permits more detailed single-cell interrogation of complex organs and tissues.
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“The expression of neurogenesis-related genes in these neurons can be contrasted to previous findings in control cases [20, 21] and decreased adult neurogenesis in AD patients [25].”
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“By isolating nuclei rather than whole cells, snRNA-Seq retains transcriptional fidelity while avoiding cell dissociation artifacts155,165.”
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“Recent advances in single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-Seq) have extended transcriptomic analysis to frozen or archived post-mortem brain tissues.”
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“Human single nucleus RNA sequencing data from Mathys and colleagues [5] and Lake and colleagues [12] were obtained from The Myeloid Landscape 2 portal (http://research-pub.gene.com/BrainMyeloidLandscape) [70].”
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“Although some brain regions relevant to AD have been studied individually at scale or jointly in samples from a few individuals8–16, a comprehensive molecular characterization of region-specific differences in AD is currently lacking”
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“The resource also has single-cell RNA-seq data for 18,025 cells from PsychENCODE and 14,012 cells from outside sources (20).”
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“Our sample sizes were similar to or greater than those reported in previous COVID-19 or brain single-nucleus RNA-sequencing (snRNA-seq) studies24-26.”
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“Similarly, single-cell DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility studies have begun to reveal cell-type-specific genome-wide epigenetic landscapes and gene regulatory networks in the brain12–15.”
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“The TFs that regulate specific brain cell types can be identified by detecting enriched sequences within cCREs, and comparing them with known TF binding motifs (Lake et al., 2018; Li et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Luo et al., 2017; Preissl et al., 2018).”
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“Partitioned heritability analysis can also use epigenomic data to link genetic risk variants with cell type-specific cCREs (Lake et al., 2018; Luo et al., 2019).”
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“However, cellular heterogeneity poses significant challenges for unraveling the complexity in the gene regulatory architecture of the human brain, as it is comprised of heterogeneous cell populations, mostly different types of neurons and glia, each of which display distinct gene expression3,8–10 and chromatin accessibility profiles11–14.”
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“Proportions of the different cell types were comparable to other snRNA-seq studies (8,23) with neurons (particularly excitatory neurons) being over-represented relative to non-neuronal cell types ( Fig S2 ).”
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- Authors
- Lake, B. B., Chen, S., Sos, B. C., Fan, J., Kaeser, G. E., Yung, Y. C., Duong, T. E., Gao, D., Chun, J., Kharchenko, P. V., & Zhang, K.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chun, Jerold
- Kharchenko, Peter V
- Zhang, Kun
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Biotechnology
- Published
- 2017-12-11
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 70-80
- ISSN
- 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
- 1087-0156
- 1546-1696
- PMC
- PMC5951394
- OpenAlex
- W2952602120
- Semantic Scholar
- 25648a2211b20fada4e722c14d7adb29d924e89c
- Cited by
- 983
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2026: 65 · 2025: 91 · 2024: 99 · 2023: 117 · 2022: 153 · 2021: 163 · 2020: 147 · 2019: 98 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 33.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (P50AG005131, T32AG000216)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL131768)
- National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH106933, U01MH098977)
- National Cancer Institute (F99CA222750, F31CA206236)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (L40 HD093312, K12HD000850)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Keywords
- DNA accessibility, epigenetics, cell type annotation, transcription factors, regulatory elements, visual cortex, frontal cortex, cerebellum, remyelination, multi-omics integration
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Cerebellum, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Visual Cortex, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Epigenesis, Genetic, Single-Cell Analysis, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Transcriptome
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