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Genetic determinants of co-accessible chromatin regions in activated T cells across humans
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Over 90% of genetic variants associated with complex human traits map to non-coding regions, but little is understood about how they modulate gene regulation in health and disease. One possible mechanism is that genetic variants affect the activity of one or more cis-regulatory elements leading to gene expression variation in specific cell types. To identify such cases, we analyzed ATAC-seq and RNA-seq profiles from stimulated primary CD4+ T cells in up to 105 healthy donors. We found that regions of accessible chromatin (ATAC-peaks) are co-accessible at kilobase and megabase resolution, consistent with the three-dimensional chromatin organization measured by in situ Hi-C in T cells. Fifteen percent of genetic variants located within ATAC-peaks affected the accessibility of the corresponding peak (local-ATAC-QTLs). Local-ATAC-QTLs have the largest effects on co-accessible peaks, are associated with gene expression and are enriched for autoimmune disease variants. Our results provide insights into how natural genetic variants modulate cis-regulatory elements, in isolation or in concert, to influence gene expression.
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- Authors
- Gate, R. E., Cheng, C. S., Aiden, A. P., Siba, A., Tabaka, M., Lituiev, D., Machol, I., Gordon, M. G., Subramaniam, M., Shamim, M., Hougen, K. L., Wortman, I., Huang, S.-C., Durand, N. C., Feng, T., De Jager, P. L., Chang, H. Y., Aiden, E. L., Benoist, C., Beer, M. A., Ye, C. J., & Regev, A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cheng, Christine S.
- Ye, Chun J.
- Regev, Aviv
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Genetics
- Published
- 2018-07-09
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1140-1150
- ISSN
- 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1718
- PMC
- PMC6097927
- OpenAlex
- W2837542075
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 6.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5rm1hg006193-10)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (U01HG012192, RM1‐HG006193, P50HG007735, U01HG009380, R01HG007348)
- National Cancer Institute (F32CA168253)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM067547)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R21AI133337)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (F32DK096822)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR071522)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
- Keywords
- CD4+ T cells, cis-regulatory elements, chromatin accessibility, 3D genome organization, transcription factor binding sites, gene expression regulation, non-coding variants, T cell activation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Autoimmune Diseases, Chromatin, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Genotype, Humans, Male, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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