1. Leveraging cross-species transcription factor binding site patterns: from diabetes risk loci to disease mechanisms
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Melina Claussnitzer, Simon N. Dankel, Bernward Klocke, Harald Grallert, Viktoria Glunk, Tea Berulava, Heekyoung Lee, Nikolay Oskolkov, Joao Fadista, Kerstin Ehlers, Simone Wahl, Christoph Hoffmann, Kun Qian, Tina Rönn, Helene Riess, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Nancy Bretschneider, Timm Schroeder, Thomas Skurk, Bernhard Horsthemke, Derek Spieler, Martin Klingenspor, Martin Seifert, Michael J. Kern, Niklas Mejhert, Ingrid Dahlman, Ola Hansson, Stefanie M. Hauck, Matthias Blüher, Peter Arner, Leif Groop, Thomas Illig, Karsten Suhre, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Gunnar Mellgren, Hans Hauner, Helmut Laumen, Benjamin F. Voight, Laura J. Scott, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Andrew P. Morris, Christian Dina, Ryan P. Welch, Eleftheria Zeggini, Cornelia Huth, Yurii S. Aulchenko, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Laura J. McCulloch, Teresa Ferreira, Najaf Amin, Guanming Wu, Cristen J. Willer, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Steve A. McCarroll, Claudia Langenberg, Oliver M. Hofmann, Josée Dupuis, Lu Qi, Ayellet V. Segrè, Mandy van Hoek, Pau Navarro, Kristin Ardlie, Beverley Balkau, Rafn Benediktsson, Amanda J. Bennett, Roza Blagieva, Eric Boerwinkle, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Kristina Bengtsson Boström, Bert Bravenboer, Suzannah Bumpstead, Noël P. Burtt, Guillaume Charpentier, Peter S. Chines, Marilyn Cornelis, David J. Couper, Gabe Crawford, Alex S.F. Doney, Katherine S. Elliott, Amanda L. Elliott, Michael R. Erdos, Caroline S. Fox, Christopher S. Franklin, Martha Ganser, Christian Gieger, Niels Grarup, Todd Green, Simon Griffin, Christopher J. Groves, Candace Guiducci, Samy Hadjadj, Neelam Hassanali, Christian Herder, Bo Isomaa, Anne U. Jackson, Paul R.V. Johnson, Torben Jørgensen, Wen H.L. Kao, Norman Klopp, Augustine Kong, Peter Kraft, Johanna Kuusisto, Torsten Lauritzen, Man Li, Aloysius Lieverse, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Valeriya Lyssenko, Michel Marre, Thomas Meitinger, Kristian Midthjell, Mario A. Morken, Narisu Narisu, Peter Nilsson, Katharine R. Owen, Felicity Payne, John R.B. Perry, Ann-Kristin Petersen, Carl Platou, Christine Proença, Inga Prokopenko, Wolfgang Rathmann, N. William Rayner, Neil R. Robertson, Ghislain Rocheleau, Michael Roden, Michael J. Sampson, Richa Saxena, Beverley M. Shields, Peter Shrader, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Thomas Sparsø, Klaus Strassburger, Heather M. Stringham, Qi Sun, Amy J. Swift, Barbara Thorand, Jean Tichet, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Rob M. van Dam, Timon W. van Haeften, Thijs van Herpt, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, G. Bragi Walters, Michael N. Weedon, Cisca Wijmenga, Jacqueline Witteman, Richard N. Bergman, Stephane Cauchi, Francis S. Collins, Anna L. Gloyn, Ulf Gyllensten, Torben Hansen, Winston A. Hide, Graham A. Hitman, Albert Hofman, David J. Hunter, Kristian Hveem, Markku Laakso, Karen L. Mohlke, Andrew D. Morris, Colin N.A. Palmer, Peter P. Pramstaller, Igor Rudan, Eric Sijbrands, Lincoln D. Stein, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Andre Uitterlinden, Mark Walker, Nicholas J. Wareham, Richard M. Watanabe, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Bernhard O. Boehm, Harry Campbell, Mark J. Daly, Andrew T. Hattersley, Frank B. Hu, James B. Meigs, James S. Pankow, Oluf Pedersen, H.-Erich Wichmann, Inês Barroso, Jose C. Florez, Timothy M. Frayling, Rob Sladek, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, James F. Wilson, Philippe Froguel, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Kari Stefansson, David Altshuler, Michael Boehnke, Mark I. McCarthy, Clinical sciences, Johnson, P, Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), and Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM)
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Diabetes risk ,SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI ,Medizin ,Genome-wide association study ,Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ,Endocrinology and Diabetes ,Biology ,PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Cell Line ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,insulin resistance ,Animals ,Humans ,EPIGENOMIC ANALYSIS ,GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION ,genome ,Gene ,Transcription factor ,IN-VIVO ,Cells, Cultured ,Conserved Sequence ,030304 developmental biology ,Genetic association ,Homeodomain Proteins ,Regulation of gene expression ,Genetics ,0303 health sciences ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,INSULIN SENSITIVITY ,Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ,LARGE-SCALE ,GENE ,PPAR gamma ,DNA binding site ,ADIPOSE-TISSUE ,Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ,Gene Expression Regulation ,transcription factor binding sites ,Homeobox ,PPAR-GAMMA ,type 2 diabetes ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Genome-Wide Association Study ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
SummaryGenome-wide association studies have revealed numerous risk loci associated with diverse diseases. However, identification of disease-causing variants within association loci remains a major challenge. Divergence in gene expression due to cis-regulatory variants in noncoding regions is central to disease susceptibility. We show that integrative computational analysis of phylogenetic conservation with a complexity assessment of co-occurring transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) can identify cis-regulatory variants and elucidate their mechanistic role in disease. Analysis of established type 2 diabetes risk loci revealed a striking clustering of distinct homeobox TFBS. We identified the PRRX1 homeobox factor as a repressor of PPARG2 expression in adipose cells and demonstrate its adverse effect on lipid metabolism and systemic insulin sensitivity, dependent on the rs4684847 risk allele that triggers PRRX1 binding. Thus, cross-species conservation analysis at the level of co-occurring TFBS provides a valuable contribution to the translation of genetic association signals to disease-related molecular mechanisms.
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- 2014