HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100387
Bobbi McGivern, Michelle M Morrow, Erin Torti, Kirsty McWalter, Ingrid M Wentzensen, Kristin G Monaghan, Amanda Gerard, Laurie Robak, David Chitayat, Claire Botsford, Sarah Jurgensmeyer, Peter Leahy, Paul Kruszka
{"title":"MGA-related syndrome: A proposed novel disorder.","authors":"Bobbi McGivern, Michelle M Morrow, Erin Torti, Kirsty McWalter, Ingrid M Wentzensen, Kristin G Monaghan, Amanda Gerard, Laurie Robak, David Chitayat, Claire Botsford, Sarah Jurgensmeyer, Peter Leahy, Paul Kruszka","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100387","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100387","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>MGA (OMIM: 616061) encodes a dual-specificity transcription factor that regulates the expression of Max-network and T-box family target genes, important in embryogenesis. Previous studies have linked MGA to various phenotypes, including neurodevelopmental disorders, congenital heart disease, and early-onset Parkinson's disease. Here, we describe the clinical phenotype of individuals with de novo, heterozygous predicted loss-of-function variants in MGA, suggesting a unique disorder involving both neurodevelopmental and congenital anomalies. In addition to developmental delays, certain congenital anomalies were present in all individuals in this cohort including cardiac anomalies, male genital malformations, and craniofacial dysmorphisms. Additional findings seen in multiple individuals in this cohort include hypotonia, abnormal brain imaging, hearing loss, sleep dysfunction, urinary issues, skeletal abnormalities, and feeding difficulties. These findings provide support for MGA as a gene intolerant to protein truncation with a broad phenotypic spectrum.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100387"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11699453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142733199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100357
Nathaniel K Mullin, Laura R Bohrer, Kristin R Anfinson, Jeaneen L Andorf, Robert F Mullins, Budd A Tucker, Edwin M Stone
{"title":"Exonic splice variant discovery using in vitro models of inherited retinal disease.","authors":"Nathaniel K Mullin, Laura R Bohrer, Kristin R Anfinson, Jeaneen L Andorf, Robert F Mullins, Budd A Tucker, Edwin M Stone","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100357","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100357","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Correct identification of the molecular consequences of pathogenic genetic variants is essential to the development of allele-specific therapies. However, such molecular effects may remain ambiguous following genetic sequence analysis alone. Here, we identify exonic codon-altering variants that are also predicted to disrupt normal RNA splicing in the context of inherited retinal disease. NR2E3 c.932G>A (p.Arg311Gln) is a variant commonly associated with enhanced S cone syndrome. Previous studies using mutagenized cDNA constructs have shown that the arginine to glutamine substitution at position 311 of NR2E3 does not meaningfully diminish function of the rod-specific transcription factor. Using retinal organoids, we explored the molecular consequences of NR2E3 c.932G>A when expressed endogenously during human rod photoreceptor cell development. Retinal organoids carrying the NR2E3 c.932G>A allele expressed a transcript containing a 186-nucleotide deletion of exon 6 within the ligand binding domain. This short transcript was not detected in control organoids or control human donor retina samples. A minigene containing exons 5 and 6 of NR2E3 showed sufficiency of the c.932G>A variant to cause the observed splicing defect. These results support the hypothesis that the pathogenic NR2E3 c.932G>A variant leads to photoreceptor disease by causing a splice defect and not through an amino acid substitution as previously supposed. They also explain the relatively mild effect of Arg311Gln on NR2E3 function in vitro. We also used in silico prediction tools to show that similar changes are likely to affect other inherited retinal disease variants in genes such as CEP290, ABCA4, and BEST1.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100357"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11550365/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142362212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-12-06DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100390
Carolina G Downie, Heather M Highland, Mona Alotaibi, Barrett M Welch, Annie Green Howard, Susan Cheng, Nick Miller, Mohit Jain, Robert C Kaplan, Adam G Lilly, Tao Long, Tamar Sofer, Bharat Thyagarajan, Bing Yu, Kari E North, Christy L Avery
{"title":"Genome-wide association study reveals shared and distinct genetic architecture of fatty acids and oxylipins in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.","authors":"Carolina G Downie, Heather M Highland, Mona Alotaibi, Barrett M Welch, Annie Green Howard, Susan Cheng, Nick Miller, Mohit Jain, Robert C Kaplan, Adam G Lilly, Tao Long, Tamar Sofer, Bharat Thyagarajan, Bing Yu, Kari E North, Christy L Avery","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100390","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bioactive fatty acid-derived oxylipin molecules play key roles mediating inflammation and oxidative stress. Circulating levels of fatty acids and oxylipins are influenced by environmental and genetic factors; characterizing the genetic architecture of bioactive lipids could yield new insights into underlying biology. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 81 fatty acids and oxylipins in 11,584 Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) participants with genetic and lipidomic data measured at study baseline (58.6% female, mean age = 46.1 years (standard deviation 13.8)). Additionally, given the effects of central obesity on inflammation, we examined interactions with waist circumference using two-degree-of-freedom joint tests. Thirty-three of the 81 oxylipins and fatty acids were significantly heritable (heritability range: 0-32.7%). Forty (49.4%) oxylipins and fatty acids had at least one genome-wide significant (p < 6.94E-11) variant resulting in 19 independent genetic loci. Six loci (lead variant minor allele frequency [MAF] range: 0.08-0.50), including desaturase-encoding FADS and OATP1B1 transporter protein-encoding SLCO1B1, exhibited associations with two or more fatty acids and oxylipins. At several of these loci, there was evidence of colocalization of the top variant across fatty acids and oxylipins. The remaining loci were only associated with one oxylipin or fatty acid and included several CYP loci. We also identified an additional rare variant (MAF = 0.002) near CARS2 in two-degree-of-freedom tests. Our analyses revealed shared and distinct genetic architecture underlying fatty acids and oxylipins, providing insights into genetic factors and motivating work to characterize these compounds and elucidate their roles in disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100390"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11751521/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100372
Matis Crespin, Karine Siquier-Pernet, Pauline Marzin, Christine Bole-Feysot, Valérie Malan, Patrick Nitschké, Marie Hully, Charles-Joris Roux, Michel Lemoine, Marlène Rio, Nathalie Boddaert, Thomas Courtin, Vincent Cantagrel
{"title":"LSM7 variants involving key amino acids for LSM complex function cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with leukodystrophy and cerebellar atrophy.","authors":"Matis Crespin, Karine Siquier-Pernet, Pauline Marzin, Christine Bole-Feysot, Valérie Malan, Patrick Nitschké, Marie Hully, Charles-Joris Roux, Michel Lemoine, Marlène Rio, Nathalie Boddaert, Thomas Courtin, Vincent Cantagrel","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100372","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cerebellar atrophy and hypoplasia are usually identified on MRI performed on children presenting signs of cerebellar ataxias, developmental delay, and intellectual disability. These signs can be associated with hypo- or de-myelinating leukodystrophies. A recent study reported two cases: one child diagnosed with leukodystrophy and cerebellar atrophy, harboring a homozygous variant in LSM7, and another who died in utero, presumed to have another homozygous variant in LSM7, based on the parents' genotype. LSM7 encodes a subunit of the LSM complex, involved in pre-RNA maturation and mRNA degradation. Consequently, it has been suggested as a strong candidate disease gene. This hypothesis was supported by functional investigations of the variants. Here, we report a patient with neurodevelopmental defects, leukodystrophy, and cerebellar atrophy, harboring compound heterozygous missense variants in the LSM7 gene. One of these variants is the same as the one carried by the first case reported previously. The other one is at the same position as the variant potentially carried by the second case reported previously. Based on comparable neuroimaging, clinical features, and the involvement of the same amino acids previously demonstrated as key for LSM complex function, we confirm that LSM7 disruption causes a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by leukodystrophy and cerebellar atrophy.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100372"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11583803/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142476456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100375
Marcos Chiñas, Daniela Fernandez-Salinas, Vitor R C Aguiar, Victor E Nieto-Caballero, Micah Lefton, Peter A Nigrovic, Joerg Ermann, Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus
{"title":"Functional genomics implicates natural killer cells in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis.","authors":"Marcos Chiñas, Daniela Fernandez-Salinas, Vitor R C Aguiar, Victor E Nieto-Caballero, Micah Lefton, Peter A Nigrovic, Joerg Ermann, Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multiple lines of evidence indicate that ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a lymphocyte-driven disease. However, which lymphocyte populations are critical in AS pathogenesis is not known. In this study, we aimed to identify the key cell types mediating the genetic risk in AS using an unbiased functional genomics approach. We integrated genome-wide association study (GWAS) data with epigenomic and transcriptomic datasets of human immune cells. To quantify enrichment of cell type-specific open chromatin or gene expression in AS risk loci, we used three published methods-LDSC-SEG, SNPsea, and scDRS-that have successfully identified relevant cell types in other diseases. Natural killer (NK) cell-specific open chromatin regions are significantly enriched in heritability for AS, compared to other immune cell types such as T cells, B cells, and monocytes. This finding was consistent between two AS GWAS. Using RNA sequencing data, we validated that genes in AS risk loci are enriched in NK cell-specific gene expression. Using the human Space-Time Gut Cell Atlas, we also found significant upregulation of AS-associated genes predominantly in NK cells. We performed co-localization analyses between GWAS risk loci and genetic variants associated with gene expression (eQTL) to find putative target genes. This revealed four AS risk loci affecting regulation of candidate target genes in NK cells: two known loci, ERAP1 and TNFRSF1A, and two understudied loci, ENTR1 (SDCCAG3) and B3GNT2. Our findings suggest that NK cells may play a crucial role in AS development and highlight four putative target genes for functional follow-up in NK cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100375"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11625334/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142523261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100379
Swetha Ramadesikan, Iftekhar A Showpnil, Mohammad Marhabaie, Allison Daley, Elizabeth A Varga, Umamaheswaran Gurusamy, Matthew T Pastore, Emily R Sites, Murugu Manickam, Dennis W Bartholomew, Jesse M Hunter, Peter White, Richard K Wilson, Rolf W Stottmann, Daniel C Koboldt
{"title":"Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of CSNK2A1-associated Okur-Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome.","authors":"Swetha Ramadesikan, Iftekhar A Showpnil, Mohammad Marhabaie, Allison Daley, Elizabeth A Varga, Umamaheswaran Gurusamy, Matthew T Pastore, Emily R Sites, Murugu Manickam, Dennis W Bartholomew, Jesse M Hunter, Peter White, Richard K Wilson, Rolf W Stottmann, Daniel C Koboldt","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100379","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100379","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>De novo variants in CSNK2A1 cause autosomal dominant Okur-Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome (OCNDS). OCNDS has an evolving clinical phenotype predominantly characterized by intellectual disability, global delays, dysmorphic features, and immunological manifestations. Microcephaly, defined as a small head circumference, is not widely recognized as a classical clinical presentation. Here, we describe four individuals from three unrelated families who shared several clinical features characteristic of an underlying syndromic neurodevelopmental condition. Trio clinical exome and research genome sequencing revealed that all affected individuals had heterozygous pathogenic missense variants in CSNK2A1. Two variants (c.468T>A p.Asp156Glu and c.149A>G p.Tyr50Cys) were de novo and previously reported, but the third variant (c.137G>T p.Gly46Val) is novel and segregated in two affected individuals in a family. This adds to growing evidence of inherited disease-causing variants in CSNK2A1, an observation reported only twice previously. A detailed phenotypic analysis of our cohort together with those individuals reported in the literature revealed that OCNDS individuals, on average, have a smaller head circumference with one-third presenting with microcephaly. We also show that the incidence of microcephaly is significantly correlated with the location of the variant in the encoded protein. Our findings suggest that small head circumference is a common but under-recognized feature of OCNDS, which may not be apparent at birth.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100379"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11621934/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100377
Kejia Zhang, Katharina Löhner, Henny H Lemmink, Maartje Boon, Jenna M Lentini, Naduni de Silva, Dragony Fu
{"title":"Epileptic encephalopathy linked to a DALRD3 missense variant that impairs tRNA modification.","authors":"Kejia Zhang, Katharina Löhner, Henny H Lemmink, Maartje Boon, Jenna M Lentini, Naduni de Silva, Dragony Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Epileptic encephalopathies are severe epilepsy syndromes characterized by early onset and progressive cerebral dysfunction. A nonsense variant in the DALR anticodon binding domain containing 3 (DALRD3) gene has been implicated in epileptic encephalopathy, but no other disease-associated variants in DALRD3 have been described. In human cells, the DALRD3 protein forms a complex with the METTL2 methyltransferase to generate the 3-methylcytosine (m3C) modification in specific arginine tRNAs. Here, we identify an individual with a homozygous missense variant in DALRD3 who displays developmental delay, cognitive deficiencies, and multifocal epilepsy. The missense variant substitutes an arginine residue to cysteine (R517C) within the DALR domain of the DALRD3 protein that is required for binding tRNAs. Cells derived from the individual homozygous for the DALRD3-R517C variant exhibit reduced levels of m3C modification in arginine tRNAs, indicating that the R517C variant impairs DALRD3 function. Notably, the DALRD3-R517C protein displays reduced association with METTL2 and loss of interaction with substrate tRNAs. Our results uncover another loss-of-function variant in DALRD3 linked to epileptic encephalopathy disorders. Importantly, these findings underscore DALRD3-dependent tRNA modification as a key contributor to proper brain development and function.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11615593/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-12-10DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100391
Abdoulaye Yalcouyé, Isabelle Schrauwen, Oumou Traoré, Salia Bamba, Elvis Twumasi Aboagye, Anushree Acharya, Thashi Bharadwaj, Rachel Latanich, Kevin Esoh, Cesar A Fortes-Lima, Carmen de Kock, Mario Jonas, Alassane Dit Baneye Maiga, Cheick A K Cissé, Moussa A Sangaré, Cheick O Guinto, Guida Landouré, Suzanne M Leal, Ambroise Wonkam
{"title":"Whole-exome sequencing reveals known and candidate genes for hearing impairment in Mali.","authors":"Abdoulaye Yalcouyé, Isabelle Schrauwen, Oumou Traoré, Salia Bamba, Elvis Twumasi Aboagye, Anushree Acharya, Thashi Bharadwaj, Rachel Latanich, Kevin Esoh, Cesar A Fortes-Lima, Carmen de Kock, Mario Jonas, Alassane Dit Baneye Maiga, Cheick A K Cissé, Moussa A Sangaré, Cheick O Guinto, Guida Landouré, Suzanne M Leal, Ambroise Wonkam","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hearing impairment (HI) is the most common neurosensory disorder globally and is reported to be more prevalent in low-income countries. In high-income countries, up to 50% of congenital childhood HI is of genetic origin. However, there are limited genetic data on HI from sub-Saharan African populations. In this study, we investigated the genetic causes of HI in the Malian populations, using whole-exome sequencing. Furthermore, cDNA was transfected into HEK293T cells for localization and expression analysis in a candidate gene. Twenty-four multiplex families were enrolled, 50% (12/24) of which are consanguineous. Clustering methods showed patterns of admixture from non-African sources in some Malian populations. Variants were found in six known nonsyndromic HI (NSHI) genes, four genes that can underlie either syndromic HI (SHI) or NSHI, one SHI gene, and one novel candidate HI gene. Overall, 75% of families (18/24) were solved, and 94.4% (17/18) had variants in known HI genes including MYO15A, CDH23, MYO7A, GJB2, SLC26A4, PJVK, OTOGL, TMC1, CIB2, GAS2, PDCH15, and EYA1. A digenic inheritance (CDH23 and PDCH15) was found in one family. Most variants (59.1%, 13/22) in known HI genes were not previously reported or associated with HI. The UBFD1 candidate HI gene, which was identified in one consanguineous family, is expressed in human inner ear organoids. Cell-based experiments in HEK293T showed that mutants UBFD1 had a lower expression, compared to wild type. We report the profile of known genes and the UBFD1 candidate gene for HI in Mali and emphasize the potential of gene discovery in African populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100391"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11730241/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142814455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100383
Daiwei Zhang, Boran Gao, Qidi Feng, Ani Manichaikul, Gina M Peloso, Russell P Tracy, Peter Durda, Kent D Taylor, Yongmei Liu, W Craig Johnson, Stacey Gabriel, Namrata Gupta, Joshua D Smith, Francois Aguet, Kristin G Ardlie, Thomas W Blackwell, Robert E Gerszten, Stephen S Rich, Jerome I Rotter, Laura J Scott, Xiang Zhou, Seunggeun Lee
{"title":"Proteome-wide association studies for blood lipids and comparison with transcriptome-wide association studies.","authors":"Daiwei Zhang, Boran Gao, Qidi Feng, Ani Manichaikul, Gina M Peloso, Russell P Tracy, Peter Durda, Kent D Taylor, Yongmei Liu, W Craig Johnson, Stacey Gabriel, Namrata Gupta, Joshua D Smith, Francois Aguet, Kristin G Ardlie, Thomas W Blackwell, Robert E Gerszten, Stephen S Rich, Jerome I Rotter, Laura J Scott, Xiang Zhou, Seunggeun Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100383","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Blood lipid traits are treatable and heritable risk factors for heart disease, a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have discovered hundreds of variants associated with lipids in humans, most of the causal mechanisms of lipids remain unknown. To better understand the biological processes underlying lipid metabolism, we investigated the associations of plasma protein levels with total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in blood. We trained protein prediction models based on samples in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and applied them to conduct proteome-wide association studies (PWASs) for lipids using the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium (GLGC) data. Of the 749 proteins tested, 42 were significantly associated with at least one lipid trait. Furthermore, we performed transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) for lipids using 9,714 gene expression prediction models trained on samples from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in MESA and 49 tissues in the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. We found that although PWASs and TWASs can show different directions of associations in an individual gene, 40 out of 49 tissues showed a positive correlation between PWAS and TWAS signed p values across all the genes, which suggests high-level consistency between proteome-lipid associations and transcriptome-lipid associations.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100383"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11650301/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HGG AdvancesPub Date : 2025-01-09Epub Date: 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100371
Daniel Danis, Michael J Bamshad, Yasemin Bridges, Andrés Caballero-Oteyza, Pilar Cacheiro, Leigh C Carmody, Leonardo Chimirri, Jessica X Chong, Ben Coleman, Raymond Dalgleish, Peter J Freeman, Adam S L Graefe, Tudor Groza, Peter Hansen, Julius O B Jacobsen, Adam Klocperk, Maaike Kusters, Markus S Ladewig, Anthony J Marcello, Teresa Mattina, Christopher J Mungall, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Justin T Reese, Filip Rehburg, Bárbara C S Reis, Catharina Schuetz, Damian Smedley, Timmy Strauss, Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, Sylvia Thun, Kyran Wissink, John F Wagstaff, David Zocche, Melissa A Haendel, Peter N Robinson
{"title":"A corpus of GA4GH phenopackets: Case-level phenotyping for genomic diagnostics and discovery.","authors":"Daniel Danis, Michael J Bamshad, Yasemin Bridges, Andrés Caballero-Oteyza, Pilar Cacheiro, Leigh C Carmody, Leonardo Chimirri, Jessica X Chong, Ben Coleman, Raymond Dalgleish, Peter J Freeman, Adam S L Graefe, Tudor Groza, Peter Hansen, Julius O B Jacobsen, Adam Klocperk, Maaike Kusters, Markus S Ladewig, Anthony J Marcello, Teresa Mattina, Christopher J Mungall, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Justin T Reese, Filip Rehburg, Bárbara C S Reis, Catharina Schuetz, Damian Smedley, Timmy Strauss, Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, Sylvia Thun, Kyran Wissink, John F Wagstaff, David Zocche, Melissa A Haendel, Peter N Robinson","doi":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Phenopacket Schema was released in 2022 and approved by ISO as a standard for sharing clinical and genomic information about an individual, including phenotypic descriptions, numerical measurements, genetic information, diagnoses, and treatments. A phenopacket can be used as an input file for software that supports phenotype-driven genomic diagnostics and for algorithms that facilitate patient classification and stratification for identifying new diseases and treatments. There has been a great need for a collection of phenopackets to test software pipelines and algorithms. Here, we present Phenopacket Store. Phenopacket Store v.0.1.19 includes 6,668 phenopackets representing 475 Mendelian and chromosomal diseases associated with 423 genes and 3,834 unique pathogenic alleles curated from 959 different publications. This represents the first large-scale collection of case-level, standardized phenotypic information derived from case reports in the literature with detailed descriptions of the clinical data and will be useful for many purposes, including the development and testing of software for prioritizing genes and diseases in diagnostic genomics, machine learning analysis of clinical phenotype data, patient stratification, and genotype-phenotype correlations. This corpus also provides best-practice examples for curating literature-derived data using the GA4GH Phenopacket Schema.</p>","PeriodicalId":34530,"journal":{"name":"HGG Advances","volume":" ","pages":"100371"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11564936/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142476454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}