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Modified penetrance of coding variants by cis-regulatory variation contributes to disease risk.

Nature genetics | 2018

Coding variants represent many of the strongest associations between genotype and phenotype; however, they exhibit inter-individual differences in effect, termed 'variable penetrance'. Here, we study how cis-regulatory variation modifies the penetrance of coding variants. Using functional genomic and genetic data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression Project (GTEx), we observed that in the general population, purifying selection has depleted haplotype combinations predicted to increase pathogenic coding variant penetrance. Conversely, in cancer and autism patients, we observed an enrichment of penetrance increasing haplotype configurations for pathogenic variants in disease-implicated genes, providing evidence that regulatory haplotype configuration of coding variants affects disease risk. Finally, we experimentally validated this model by editing a Mendelian single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) using CRISPR/Cas9 on distinct expression haplotypes with the transcriptome as a phenotypic readout. Our results demonstrate that joint regulatory and coding variant effects are an important part of the genetic architecture of human traits and contribute to modified penetrance of disease-causing variants.

Pubmed ID: 30127527 RIS Download

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Associated grants

  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: HHSN268201000009C
  • Agency: NIMH NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 MH106842
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: UM1 HG008901
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K99 HG009916
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM122924
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U24 DK112331
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: HHSN268201000029C
  • Agency: NIMH NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 MH101814
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: HHSN268201000002C

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