Polarization of the Effects of Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Risk Alleles in Leukocytes
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Raj, T.; Rothamel, K.; Mostafavi, S.; Ye, C.; Lee, M. N.; Replogle, J. M.; Feng, T.; Lee, M.; Asinovski, N.; Frohlich, I.; Imboywa, S.; Von Korff, A.; Okada, Y.; Patsopoulos, N. A.; Davis, S.; McCabe, C.; Paik, H.-i.; Srivastava, G. P.; Raychaudhuri, S.; Hafler, D. A.; Koller, D.; Hacohen, N.; Mathis, D.; Benoist, C.; Stranger, B. E.; De Jager, P. L.; Regev, Aviv; ... Show more Show less![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/107998/Regev_Polarization%20of%20the.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
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To extend our understanding of the genetic basis of human immune function and dysfunction, we performed an expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) study of purified CD4[superscript +] T cells and monocytes, representing adaptive and innate immunity, in a multi-ethnic cohort of 461 healthy individuals. Context-specific cis- and trans-eQTLs were identified, and cross-population mapping allowed, in some cases, putative functional assignment of candidate causal regulatory variants for disease-associated loci. We note an over-representation of T cell–specific eQTLs among susceptibility alleles for autoimmune diseases and of monocyte-specific eQTLs among Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease variants. This polarization implicates specific immune cell types in these diseases and points to the need to identify the cell-autonomous effects of disease susceptibility variants.
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2014-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of BiologyJournal
Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Raj, T. et al. “Polarization of the Effects of Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Risk Alleles in Leukocytes.” Science 344.6183 (2014): 519–523.
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0036-8075
1095-9203