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The noncoding RNA IPW regulates the imprinted DLK1-DIO3 locus in an induced pluripotent stem cell model of Prader-Willi syndrome

Authors :
Rachel Eiges
Ofra Yanuka
Yonatan Stelzer
Nissim Benvenisty
Ido Sagi
Source :
Nature Genetics. 46:551-557
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2014.

Abstract

Parental imprinting is a form of epigenetic regulation that results in parent-of-origin differential gene expression. To study Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a developmental imprinting disorder, we generated case-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) harboring distinct aberrations in the affected region on chromosome 15. In studying PWS-iPSCs and human parthenogenetic iPSCs, we unexpectedly found substantial upregulation of virtually all maternally expressed genes (MEGs) in the imprinted DLK1-DIO3 locus on chromosome 14. Subsequently, we determined that IPW, a long noncoding RNA in the critical region of the PWS locus, is a regulator of the DLK1-DIO3 region, as its overexpression in PWS and parthenogenetic iPSCs resulted in downregulation of MEGs in this locus. We further show that gene expression changes in the DLK1-DIO3 region coincide with chromatin modifications rather than DNA methylation levels. Our results suggest that a subset of PWS phenotypes may arise from dysregulation of an imprinted locus distinct from the PWS region.

Details

ISSN :
15461718 and 10614036
Volume :
46
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature Genetics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....d9b75a00fe6d665822a4a530bfac7820
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2968