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The impact of structural variation on human gene expression
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Structural variants (SVs) are an important source of human genetic diversity, but their contribution to traits, disease and gene regulation remains unclear. We mapped cis expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) in 13 tissues via joint analysis of SVs, single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and short insertion/deletion (indel) variants from deep whole-genome sequencing (WGS). We estimated that SVs are causal at 3.5-6.8% of eQTLs-a substantially higher fraction than prior estimates-and that expression-altering SVs have larger effect sizes than do SNVs and indels. We identified 789 putative causal SVs predicted to directly alter gene expression: most (88.3%) were noncoding variants enriched at enhancers and other regulatory elements, and 52 were linked to genome-wide association study loci. We observed a notable abundance of rare high-impact SVs associated with aberrant expression of nearby genes. These results suggest that comprehensive WGS-based SV analyses will increase the power of common- and rare-variant association studies.
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Metadata
- Authors
- GTEx Consortium, Chiang, C., Scott, A. J., Davis, J. R., Tsang, E. K., Li, X., Kim, Y., Hadzic, T., Damani, F. N., Ganel, L., Montgomery, S. B., Battle, A., Conrad, D. F., & Hall, I. M.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Conrad, Donald F
- Hall, Ira M
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Genetics
- Published
- 2017-04-03
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 692-699
- ISSN
- 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1718
- PMC
- PMC5406250
- OpenAlex
- W2949884285
- Cited by
- 495
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 45 · 2025: 67 · 2024: 55 · 2023: 74 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 74 · 2020: 50 · 2019: 43 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 12
- FWCI
- 22.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) (submittedVersion)
- Washington University in St. Louis Libraries
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (HHSN261200800001C)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HHSN268201000029C)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH101814, R01MH101822, R01MH090937, R01MH101810, R01MH101782, R01MH101819, R01MH101820, R01MH090948, R01MH101825, R01MH090941, R01MH090936, R01MH090951)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA033684, R01DA006227)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (K22HG000044, R01HG008150, UM1HG008853, R01HG007178, T32HG000044)
- National Cancer Institute (HHSN261200800001E))
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U54HD087011)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- 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
- Keywords
- structural variants, gene expression regulation, cis-expression quantitative trait loci, enhancers, rare variants, single nucleotide variants, insertion-deletion variants, tissue-specific gene expression, GTEx, human genetic variation
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Chromosome Mapping, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Linear Models, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, INDEL Mutation, Genome-Wide Association Study
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