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RNA splicing is a primary link between genetic variation and disease

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Li, Yang I., van de Geijn, Bryce, Raj, Anil, Knowles, David A., Petti, Allegra A., Golan, David, Gilad, Yoav, Pritchard, Jonathan K.·2016·Science

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RNA splicing links genetics to disease: Many genetic variants associated with disease have no apparent effect on any specific protein coding sequence. Li et al. systematically analyzed the effects of DNA variants on the main steps of gene regulation, from the chromatin state through protein function. One-third of expression quantitative train loci (QTLs) are mediated through transcriptional processes, not chromatin. Splice QTLs and expression QTLs are about comparable in their complex disease risk. Posttranscriptional mechanisms therefore play a large role in translating genotype to phenotype. Science , this issue p. 600

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  • Alternative splicing is a key contributor to transcriptome complexity and modulation of complex human traits.

    “Alternative splicing is a key contributor to transcriptome complexity and modulation of complex human traits 10 .”

    From How many human proteoforms are there? (2018) · cites this paper as [10]

    The Abstract says splicing QTLs are major contributors to complex traits, supporting the trait-modulation part of the claim. The passage on pre-mRNA splicing discusses transcript isoforms, but our copy does not establish that alternative splicing is a key contributor to transcriptome complexity. No page number is available in the indexed copy. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • Splice variants are centrally involved in the modulation of complex traits.

    “Li et al. (3) showed that splice variants play a central role in modulating complex traits.”

    From Proteoforms as the next proteomics currency (2018) · cites this paper as [3]

  • Splicing alterations are related to common disease risk independently of gene expression changes.

    “Notably, the differential splicing molecular signature is not driven by DGE (Extended Data Fig. 4h), consistent with the observation that splicing alterations are related to common disease risk independently of gene expression changes16.”
  • Isoform-level alterations in disease had larger effect sizes than gene-level changes, particularly for protein-coding biotypes.

    “In addition, isoform-level alterations in disease exhibited substantially larger effect sizes compared with gene-level changes (mean |log2FC| 0.25 vs 0.14, P<2×10−16, K-S test), particularly for protein coding biotypes (Fig 1A), consistent with recent work demonstrating the importance of splicing dysregulation in disease pathogenesis (25).”
  • Genetic risk can also be mediated through mRNA splicing.

    “In addition, it is becoming increasingly clear that genetic risk can also be mediated through mRNA splicing28,29.”

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  1. [20]Li YI Knowles DA Pritchard JK http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/03/16/044107 2016

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Authors
Li, Y. I., van de Geijn, B., Raj, A., Knowles, D. A., Petti, A. A., Golan, D., Gilad, Y., & Pritchard, J. K.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • University of Chicago (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Gilad, Yoav
  • Pritchard, Jonathan K.
Venue
Science
Published
2016-04-29
Volume
352
Issue
6285
Pages
600-604
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2344561059
Cited by
660
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 50 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 61 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 69 · 2019: 61 · 2018: 72 · 2017: 59 · 2016: 20 · 2012: 1
FWCI
36.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • NIH (R01MH084703, RO1MH101825, U01HG007036, U54CA149145)
  • Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics Fellowship
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
  • 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
RNA splicing, splicing quantitative trait loci, non-coding variants, gene expression regulation, expression quantitative trait loci, chromatin regulation, lymphoblastoid cell lines, complex traits
MeSH terms
Cell Line, Chromatin, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Immune System Diseases, Lymphocytes, Phenotype, RNA Splicing, Genetic Variation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study

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