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Cell-specific histone modification maps in the human frontal lobe link schizophrenia risk to the neuronal epigenome

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Girdhar, Kiran, Hoffman, Gabriel E., Jiang, Yan, Brown, Leanne, Kundakovic, Marija, Hauberg, Mads E., Francoeur, Nancy J., Wang, Ying-chih +18 more·2018·Nature Neuroscience

Abstract

Risk variants for schizophrenia affect more than 100 genomic loci, yet cell- and tissue-specific roles underlying disease liability remain poorly characterized. We have generated for two cortical areas implicated in psychosis, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex, 157 reference maps from neuronal, neuron-depleted and bulk tissue chromatin for two histone marks associated with active promoters and enhancers, H3-trimethyl-Lys4 (H3K4me3) and H3-acetyl-Lys27 (H3K27ac). Differences between neuronal and neuron-depleted chromatin states were the major axis of variation in histone modification profiles, followed by substantial variability across subjects and cortical areas. Thousands of significant histone quantitative trait loci were identified in neuronal and neuron-depleted samples. Risk variants for schizophrenia, depressive symptoms and neuroticism were significantly over-represented in neuronal H3K4me3 and H3K27ac landscapes. Our Resource, sponsored by PsychENCODE and CommonMind, highlights the critical role of cell-type-specific signatures at regulatory and disease-associated noncoding sequences in the human frontal lobe. This PsychENCODE resource presents 157 reference maps for open-chromatin-associated histone methylation and acetylation in prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex, linking the neuronal epigenome to the genetic risk architecture of schizophrenia.

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Girdhar, K., Hoffman, G. E., Jiang, Y., Brown, L., Kundakovic, M., Hauberg, M. E., Francoeur, N. J., Wang, Y.-C., Shah, H., Kavanagh, D. H., Zharovsky, E., Jacobov, R., Wiseman, J. R., Park, R., Johnson, J. S., Kassim, B. S., Sloofman, L., Mattei, E., Weng, Z., Sieberts, S. K., Peters, M. A., Harris, B. T., Lipska, B. K., Sklar, P., Roussos, P., & Akbarian, S.
Affiliations
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • Aarhus University (DK)
  • University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
  • Sage Bionetworks (US)
  • Georgetown University (US)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (US)
  • James J. Peters VA Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
  • Hoffman, Gabriel E.
  • Roussos, Panos
  • Akbarian, Schahram
Venue
Nature Neuroscience
Published
2018-07-23
Volume
21
Issue
8
Pages
1126-1136
ISSN
  • 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1726
OpenAlex
W2883810206
Cited by
139
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 3
FWCI
6.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network (American Medical Association) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (I01BX002395)
  • Wellcome Trust (082604)
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-LABX-0009)
  • Lundbeckfonden (R248‐2017‐2003)
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01mh080405-05, 5r01mh094714-04)
  • National Institute on Aging (U01AG016976, P50AG005138, U01AG032984, R01AG033193, P01AG002219, R01AG050986, U24AG021886)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL105756)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH084053, R01 MH‐080405, R01MH093725, U01MH103339, R01-MH094714, P50MH066392, R21MH105881, U01MH103365, R01MH109677, R01MH075916, R01MH085542, R37MH057881, R01MH106056, U01MH103340, R21MH102791, R01MH105472, R01MH097276, P50MH106934, U01MH103392, R01MH105898, R21MH103877, U01MH103346)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Keywords
schizophrenia, histone modifications, H3K4me3, H3K27ac, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, cell type-specific chromatin, open chromatin, depressive symptoms, neuroticism, PsychENCODE
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Brain Mapping, Chromatin, Depression, Educational Status, Frontal Lobe, Gyrus Cinguli, Histones, Humans, Neurotic Disorders, Risk, Schizophrenia, Genetic Variation, Prefrontal Cortex, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Epigenesis, Genetic, Genome-Wide Association Study

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