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Identification of atrial fibrillation associated genes and functional non-coding variants.

Antoinette F van Ouwerkerk | Fernanda M Bosada | Karel van Duijvenboden | Matthew C Hill | Lindsey E Montefiori | Koen T Scholman | Jia Liu | Antoine A F de Vries | Bastiaan J Boukens | Patrick T Ellinor | Marie José T H Goumans | Igor R Efimov | Marcelo A Nobrega | Phil Barnett | James F Martin | Vincent M Christoffels
Nature communications | 2019

Disease-associated genetic variants that lie in non-coding regions found by genome-wide association studies are thought to alter the functionality of transcription regulatory elements and target gene expression. To uncover causal genetic variants, variant regulatory elements and their target genes, here we cross-reference human transcriptomic, epigenomic and chromatin conformation datasets. Of 104 genetic variant regions associated with atrial fibrillation candidate target genes are prioritized. We optimize EMERGE enhancer prediction and use accessible chromatin profiles of human atrial cardiomyocytes to more accurately predict cardiac regulatory elements and identify hundreds of sub-threshold variants that co-localize with regulatory elements. Removal of mouse homologues of atrial fibrillation-associated regions in vivo uncovers a distal regulatory region involved in Gja1 (Cx43) expression. Our analyses provide a shortlist of genes likely affected by atrial fibrillation-associated variants and provide variant regulatory elements in each region that link genetic variation and target gene regulation, helping to focus future investigations.

Pubmed ID: 31628324

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Associated grants

  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL118761
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL127717
  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: OT2 OD023848
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL130804
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: F31 HL137307
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: F31 HL136065

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