1. The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
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Deborah C. Mash, Kevin S. Smith, Lappalainen T, Jeffrey A. Thomas, Rajinder Kaul, Paul Flicek, Maghboeba Mosavel, Yuxin Zou, Barbara E. Stranger, Brandon L. Pierce, Yanyu Liang, Andrew R. Hamel, Lihua Jiang, Marcus Hunter, Jimmie B. Vaught, Hae Kyung Im, John M. Rouhana, François Aguet, Ferran Reverter, Jason Bridge, Farzana Jasmine, Scott D. Jewell, William F. Leinweber, Gad Getz, Jonah Einson, Kevin Myer, SE Castel, Barbara E. Engelhardt, Stephen B. Montgomery, Brunilda Balliu, Gary Walters, Helen M. Moore, Daniel Nachun, Zerbino, Lori E. Brigham, Gao Wang, Farhad Hormozdiari, Pejman Mohammadi, Kasper D. Hansen, Nicole A. Teran, Fred A. Wright, Bryan Gillard, Sarah Kim-Hellmuth, CC Powell, Susan E. Koester, Wucher, Aaron Graubert, Duyen T. Nguyen, Shin Lin, Mike Moser, John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, Liqun Qi, Princy Parsana, Peter Hickey, Latarsha J. Carithers, Saboor Shad, Eric R. Gamazon, Jennifer A. Doherty, Stephen J. Trevanion, Kane Hadley, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Anita H. Undale, Robert E. Handsaker, Debra Bradbury, Shankara Anand, Meng Wang, David E. Tabor, Karna Robinson, S. Gabriel, Esti Yeger-Lotem, Kimberly Ramsey, Mary Barcus, Daniel G. MacArthur, Yuan He, Nancy Roche, Alvaro N. Barbeira, Ayellet V. Segrè, Dan Sheppard, Souvik Das, AR Little, Nathan S. Abell, Xiaoquan Wen, Elise D. Flynn, Nicole M. Ferraro, Hua Tang, Jared L. Nedzel, Jessica Wheeler, Abhi Rao, Meier, Thomas Juettemann, Sandra Linder, Bruce A. Roe, Daniel J. Cotter, David A. Davis, Christopher Johns, Lin Chen, Seva Kashin, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Ana Viñuela, Ellen Todres, Ashis Saha, Matthew Stephens, Chiara Sabatti, Manolis Kellis, Laura A. Siminoff, Phillip Branton, Xiao Li, Michael Snyder, Kathryn Demanelis, Gen Li, Barbara A. Foster, Leslie H. Sobin, Simona Volpi, Magali Ruffier, Christopher D. Brown, Ping Guan, Benjamin J. Strober, Alexis Battle, Michael J. Gloudemans, Silva Kasela, Manuel Muñoz-Aguirre, Ellen Karasik, OM deGoede, Roderic Guigó, Michael Washington, Alisa McDonald, Andrew A. Brown, Meritxell Oliva, Kieron Taylor, Nancy J. Cox, Daniel C. Rohrer, Paul J. Hoffman, Gene Kopen, Qin Li, Andrew D Skol, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Tiffany Eulalio, Mark H. Johnson, Laure Fresard, Lindsay F. Rizzardi, Abhiram Rao, T Krubit, W. J. Kent, Alan Kwong, Anna M. Smith, Pedro G. Ferreira, HM Gardiner, Andrew P. Feinberg, Rick Hasz, Lei Hou, Marta Melé, Andrew B. Nobel, Katherine H. Huang, Laura Barker, Maximilian Haeussler, Kristin G. Ardlie, Concepcion R. Nierras, Christopher Lee, Joshua M. Akey, Eskin E, Jeffrey McLean, Donald F. Conrad, Jin Billy Li, YoSon Park, Serghei Mangul, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Brian Jo, D Garrido-Martin, and Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica::Bioinformàtica [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,0303 health sciences ,Linkage disequilibrium ,Multidisciplinary ,Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) ,Atlas (topology) ,Human tissues ,Cancer susceptibility ,Diseases ,Genome-wide association study ,RNA-Seq ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Expressió gènica ,Human genetics ,03 medical and health sciences ,Tissues ,0302 clinical medicine ,Allelic heterogeneity ,Gene expression ,Genètica ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,030304 developmental biology ,Teixits (Histologia) - Abstract
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project dissects how genetic variation affects gene expression and splicing. Some human genetic variants affect the amount of RNA produced and the splicing of gene transcripts, crucial steps in development and maintaining a healthy individual. However, some of these changes only occur in a small number of tissues within the body. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project has been expanded over time, and, looking at the final data in version 8, Aguet et al. present a deep characterization of genetic associations and gene expression and splicing in 838 individuals over 49 tissues (see the Perspective by Wilson). This large study was able to characterize the details underlying many aspects of gene expression and provides a resource with which to better understand the fundamental molecular mechanisms of how genetic variants affect gene regulation and complex traits in humans. Science, this issue p. 1318; see also p. 1298 The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project was established to characterize genetic effects on the transcriptome across human tissues and to link these regulatory mechanisms to trait and disease associations. Here, we present analyses of the version 8 data, examining 15,201 RNA-sequencing samples from 49 tissues of 838 postmortem donors. We comprehensively characterize genetic associations for gene expression and splicing in cis and trans, showing that regulatory associations are found for almost all genes, and describe the underlying molecular mechanisms and their contribution to allelic heterogeneity and pleiotropy of complex traits. Leveraging the large diversity of tissues, we provide insights into the tissue specificity of genetic effects and show that cell type composition is a key factor in understanding gene regulatory mechanisms in human tissues. We thank the donors and their families for their generous gifts of organ donation for transplantation and tissue donations for the GTEx research project; the Genomics Platform at the Broad Institute for data generation; J. Struewing for support and leadership of the GTEx project; M. Khan and C. Stolte for the illustrations in Fig. 1; and R. Do, D. Jordan, and M. Verbanck for providing GWAS pleiotropy scores. Funding: This work was supported by the Common Fund of the Office of the Director, U.S. National Institutes of Health, and by NCI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, NIA, NIAID, and NINDS through NIH contracts HHSN261200800001E (Leidos Prime contract with NCI: A.M.S., D.E.T., N.V.R., J.A.M., L.S., M.E.B., L.Q., T.K., D.B., K.R., and A.U.), 10XS170 (NDRI: W.F.L., J.A.T., G.K., A.M., S.S., R.H., G.Wa., M.J., M.Wa., L.E.B., C.J., J.W., B.R., M.Hu., K.M., L.A.S., H.M.G., M.Mo., and L.K.B.), 10XS171 (Roswell Park Cancer Institute: B.A.F., M.T.M., E.K., B.M.G., K.D.R., and J.B.), 10X172 (Science Care Inc.), 12ST1039 (IDOX), 10ST1035 (Van Andel Institute: S.D.J., D.C.R., and D.R.V.), HHSN268201000029C (Broad Institute: F.A., G.G., K.G.A., A.V.S., X.Li., E.T., S.G., A.G., S.A., K.H.H., D.T.N., K.H., S.R.M., and J.L.N.), 5U41HG009494 (F.A., G.G., and K.G.A.), and through NIH grants R01 DA006227-17 (University of Miami Brain Bank: D.C.M. and D.A.D.), Supplement to University of Miami grant DA006227 (D.C.M. and D.A.D.), R01 MH090941 (University of Geneva), R01 MH090951 and R01 MH090937 (University of Chicago), R01 MH090936 (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill), R01MH101814 (M.M.-A., V.W., S.B.M., R.G., E.T.D., D.G.-M., and A.V.), U01HG007593 (S.B.M.), R01MH101822 (C.D.B.), U01HG007598 (M.O. and B.E.S.), U01MH104393 (A.P.F.), extension H002371 to 5U41HG002371 (W.J.K.), as well as other funding sources: R01MH106842 (T.L., P.M., E.F., and P.J.H.), R01HL142028 (T.L., Si.Ka., and P.J.H.), R01GM122924 (T.L. and S.E.C.), R01MH107666 (H.K.I.), P30DK020595 (H.K.I.), UM1HG008901 (T.L.), R01GM124486 (T.L.), R01HG010067 (Y.Pa.), R01HG002585 (G.Wa. and M.St.), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation GBMF 4559 (G.Wa. and M.St.), 1K99HG009916-01 (S.E.C.), R01HG006855 (Se.Ka. and R.E.H.), BIO2015-70777-P, Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and FEDER funds (M.M.-A., V.W., R.G., and D.G.-M.), la Caixa Foundation ID 100010434 under agreement LCF/BQ/SO15/52260001 (D.G.-M.), NIH CTSA grant UL1TR002550-01 (P.M.), Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellowship H2020 Grant 706636 (S.K.-H.), R35HG010718 (E.R.G.), FPU15/03635, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (M.M.-A.),R01MH109905, 1R01HG010480 (A.Ba.), Searle Scholar Program (A.Ba.), R01HG008150 (S.B.M.), 5T32HG000044-22, NHGRI Institutional Training Grant in Genome Science (N.R.G.), EU IMI program (UE7-DIRECT-115317-1) (E.T.D. and A.V.), FNS funded project RNA1 (31003A_149984) (E.T.D. and A.V.), DK110919 (F.H.), F32HG009987 (F.H.), Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund Grant (A.R.H.), Wellcome grant WT108749/Z/15/Z (P.F.), and European Molecular Biology Laboratory (P.F. and D.Z.). Peer Reviewed "Article signat per 1 autors/es del BSC membres del THE GTEX CONSORTIUM: Marta Mele Messeguer"
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