1. Human-lineage-specific genomic elements are associated with neurodegenerative disease and APOE transcript usage
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Chen, Z., Zhang, D., Reynolds, R.H., Gustavsson, E.K., García-Ruiz, S., D'Sa, K., Fairbrother-Browne, A., Vandrovcova, J., Noyce, A.J., Kaiyrzhanov, R., Middlehurst, B., Kia, D.A., Tan, M., Morris, H.R., Plun-Favreau, H., Holmans, P., Trabzuni, D., Bras, J., Quinn, J., Mok, K.Y., Kinghorn, K.J., Billingsley, K., Wood, N.W., Lewis, P., Schreglmann, S., Guerreiro, Rita, Lovering, R., R'Bibo, L., Manzoni, C., Rizig, M., Guelfi, S., Escott-Price, V., Chelban, V., Foltynie, T., Williams, N., Brice, A., Danjou, F., Lesage, S., Corvol, Jean-Christophe, Martinez, M., Schulte, C., Brockmann, K., Simón-Sánchez, J., Heutink, P., Rizzu, P., Sharma, M., Gasser, T., Nicolas, A., Cookson, M. R, Bandres-Ciga, S., Blauwendraat, Cornelis, Craig, David W, Faghri, F., Gibbs, J.R., Hernandez, D.G., Van Keuren-Jensen, K., Shulman, J.M., Leonard, H.L., Nalls, M.A., Robak, L., Lubbe, S., Finkbeiner, S., Mencacci, N.E., Lungu, C., Singleton, A. B., Scholz, S.W., Reed, X., Alcalay, Roy N, Gan-Or, Z., Rouleau, G.A., Krohn, L., van Hilten, J.J., Marinus, J., Adarmes-Gómez, A.D, Aguilar Barberà, Miquel, Alvarez, Ignacio, Alvarez, V., Barrero, F. J, Yarza, J.A.B., Bernal-Bernal, I., Blazquez, M., Bonilla-Toribio, Marta, Botía, J., Boungiorno, M.T., Buiza-Rueda, Dolores, Cámara, Ana, Carrillo, F., Carrión-Claro, M., Cerdan, D., Clarimón, Jordi, Compta, Yaroslau, Diez-Fairen, M., Dols Icardo, Oriol, Duarte, J., Duran, Raquel, Escamilla-Sevilla, F., Ezquerra, M., Feliz, C., Fernández, M., Fernández-Santiago, R., Garcia, C., García-Ruiz, P., Gómez-Garre, P., Heredia, M.J.G., Gonzalez-Aramburu, I., Pagola, A.G., Hoenicka, J., Infante, J., Jesús, S., Jimenez-Escrig, A., Kulisevsky, Jaime, Labrador-Espinosa, Miguel A, Lopez-Sendon, J.L., de Munain Arregui, A.L., Macias, D., Torres, I.M., Marín, J., Marti, M.J., Martínez-Castrillo, J.C., Méndez-del-Barrio, C., González, M.M., Mata, M., Mínguez, A., Mir, P., Rezola, E.M., Muñoz, E., Pagonabarraga Mora, Javier, Pastor, P., Errazquin, F.P., Periñán-Tocino, T., Ruiz-Martínez, J., Ruz, C., Rodriguez, A.S., Sierra, M., Suarez-Sanmartin, E., Tabernero, C., Tartari, J. P., Tejera-Parrado, C., Tolosa, E., Valldeoriola, F., Vargas-González, L., Vela, L., Vives, F., Zimprich, Alexander, Pihlstrom, L., Toft, M., Koks, S., Taba, P., Hassin-Baer, S., Hardy, J., Houlden, Henry, Gagliano Taliun, S. A., Ryten, M., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Cantabria, Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation, Medical Research Council (UK), Dementia Research Institute (UK), Alzheimer Society, Alzheimer's Research UK, Wellcome Trust, Dolby Family Fund, National Institute for Health Research (UK), NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (UK), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Fundación Séneca, and Gobierno de la Región de Murcia
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0301 basic medicine ,Apolipoprotein E ,Aging ,Messenger ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Neurodegenerative ,Alzheimer's Disease ,Genome ,Linkage Disequilibrium ,Negative selection ,0302 clinical medicine ,2.1 Biological and endogenous factors ,Aetiology ,health care economics and organizations ,Conserved Sequence ,Phylogeny ,Multidisciplinary ,Brain ,Neurodegenerative Diseases ,Single Nucleotide ,Alzheimer's disease ,Phenotype ,International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium ,Neurological ,Regression Analysis ,Long Noncoding ,DNA, Intergenic ,RNA, Long Noncoding ,Human ,Biotechnology ,Lineage (genetic) ,Science ,1.1 Normal biological development and functioning ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Chromosomes ,03 medical and health sciences ,Apolipoproteins E ,Underpinning research ,Alzheimer Disease ,Genetic variation ,Genetics ,Acquired Cognitive Impairment ,Humans ,RNA, Messenger ,Polymorphism ,Gene ,Whole genome sequencing ,Intergenic ,Pair 19 ,Genome, Human ,Human Genome ,Neurosciences ,Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) ,Molecular Sequence Annotation ,General Chemistry ,DNA ,Introns ,Brain Disorders ,030104 developmental biology ,Gene Ontology ,RNA ,Dementia ,Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19 ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Knowledge of genomic features specific to the human lineage may provide insights into brain-related diseases. We leverage high-depth whole genome sequencing data to generate a combined annotation identifying regions simultaneously depleted for genetic variation (constrained regions) and poorly conserved across primates. We propose that these constrained, non-conserved regions (CNCRs) have been subject to human-specific purifying selection and are enriched for brain-specific elements. We find that CNCRs are depleted from protein-coding genes but enriched within lncRNAs. We demonstrate that per-SNP heritability of a range of brain-relevant phenotypes are enriched within CNCRs. We find that genes implicated in neurological diseases have high CNCR density, including APOE, highlighting an unannotated intron-3 retention event. Using human brain RNA-sequencing data, we show the intron-3-retaining transcript to be more abundant in Alzheimer’s disease with more severe tau and amyloid pathological burden. Thus, we demonstrate potential association of human-lineage-specific sequences in brain development and neurological disease., Knowledge of genomic features specific to humans may be important for understanding disease. Here the authors demonstrate a potential role for these human-lineage-specific sequences in brain development and neurological disease.
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- 2021