Francine Grodstein, Bernardo Lemos, Jingyun Yang, Katia de Paiva Lopes, Ricardo A Vialle, Nicholas Seyfried, Yanling Wang, Gemma Shireby, Eilis Hannon, Alan Thomas, Keeley Brookes, Jonathan Mill, Philip L De Jager, David A Bennett
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Abstract
The cortical epigenetic clock was developed in brain tissue as a biomarker of brain aging. As one way to identify mechanisms underlying aging, we conducted a GWAS of cortical age. We leveraged postmortem cortex tissue and genotyping array data from 694 participants of the Rush Memory and Aging Project and Religious Orders Study (ROSMAP; 11000,000 SNPs), and meta-analysed ROSMAP with 522 participants of Brains for Dementia Research (5,000,000 overlapping SNPs). We confirmed results using eQTL (cortical bulk and single nucleus gene expression), cortical protein levels (ROSMAP), and phenome-wide association studies (clinical/neuropathologic phenotypes, ROSMAP). In the meta-analysis, the strongest association was rs4244620 (p = 1.29 × 10-7), which also exhibited FDR-significant cis-eQTL effects for CD46 in bulk and single nucleus (microglia, astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, neuron) cortical gene expression. Additionally, rs4244620 was nominally associated with lower cognition, faster slopes of cognitive decline, and greater Parkinsonian signs (n ~ 1700 ROSMAP with SNP/phenotypic data; all p ≤ 0.04). In ROSMAP alone, the top SNP was rs4721030 (p = 8.64 × 10-8) annotated to TMEM106B and THSD7A. Further, in ROSMAP (n = 849), TMEM106B and THSD7A protein levels in cortex were related to many phenotypes, including greater AD pathology and lower cognition (all p ≤ 0.0007). Overall, we identified converging evidence of CD46 and possibly TMEM106B/THSD7A for potential roles in cortical epigenetic clock age.
期刊介绍:
Epigenetics publishes peer-reviewed original research and review articles that provide an unprecedented forum where epigenetic mechanisms and their role in diverse biological processes can be revealed, shared, and discussed.
Epigenetics research studies heritable changes in gene expression caused by mechanisms others than the modification of the DNA sequence. Epigenetics therefore plays critical roles in a variety of biological systems, diseases, and disciplines. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
DNA methylation
Nucleosome positioning and modification
Gene silencing
Imprinting
Nuclear reprogramming
Chromatin remodeling
Non-coding RNA
Non-histone chromosomal elements
Dosage compensation
Nuclear organization
Epigenetic therapy and diagnostics
Nutrition and environmental epigenetics
Cancer epigenetics
Neuroepigenetics