颜林林 (2022-06-02 07:08):
#paper doi:10.1101/gr.276193.121 Genome Research 2022, Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental mechanisms govern allele-specific gene expression. 二倍体生物的每个基因都有两个等位基因拷贝,等位基因的表达并非随机发生,哪些因素决定了到底开启哪条等位基因进行表达,是个值得研究的问题。本文通过杂交两个品系的小鼠,构建出在大多数基因上都呈现杂合型的F1代,并用这个模型进行等位基因特异性表达(Allele-Specific Expression,ASE)的研究,使得通过测序方法可以很容易大批量识别出所表达基因的来源等位基因(来自父方或母方)。由于是动物模型实验,可以很容易进行是否高脂饮食等对照实验,以及可以进行不同器官组织类型的样本采集,研究在不同组别、不同组织中的ASE事件。通过这套体系,本文发现了几千个存在ASE的基因,并研究了基因序列、基因表观状态、饮食习惯以及不同器官组织等因素对ASE的影响。
IF:6.200Q1 Genome research, 2022-06. DOI: 10.1101/gr.276193.121 PMID: 35501130
Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental mechanisms govern allele-specific gene expression
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Abstract:
Allele-specific expression (ASE) is a phenomenon in which one allele is preferentially expressed over the other. Genetic and epigenetic factors cause ASE by altering the final composition of a gene's product, leading to expression imbalances that can have functional consequences on phenotypes. Environmental signals also impact allele-specific expression, but how they contribute to this cross talk remains understudied. Here, we explored how genotype, parent-of-origin, tissue, sex, and dietary fat simultaneously influence ASE biases. Male and female mice from a F reciprocal cross of the LG/J and SM/J strains were fed a high or low fat diet. We harnessed strain-specific variants to distinguish between two ASE classes: parent-of-origin-dependent (unequal expression based on parental origin) and sequence-dependent (unequal expression based on nucleotide identity). We present a comprehensive map of ASE patterns in 2853 genes across three tissues and nine environmental contexts. We found that both ASE classes are highly dependent on tissue and environmental context. They vary across metabolically relevant tissues, between males and females, and in response to dietary fat. We also found 45 genes with inconsistent ASE biases that switched direction across tissues and/or environments. Finally, we integrated ASE and QTL data from published intercrosses of the LG/J and SM/J strains. Our ASE genes are often enriched in QTLs for metabolic and musculoskeletal traits, highlighting how this orthogonal approach can prioritize candidate genes. Together, our results provide novel insights into how genetic, epigenetic, and environmental mechanisms govern allele-specific expression, which is an essential step toward deciphering the genotype-to-phenotype map.
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