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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 25, 期 11, 页码 1286-1289出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2017.108
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Data Driven Discovery Initiative [GBMF 4552]
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIH) [F32DE026346]
- Daniel B Burke Endowed Chair for Diabetes Research
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have contributed significantly to the understanding of complex disease genetics. However, GWAS only report association signals and do not necessarily identify culprit genes. As most signals occur in non-coding regions of the genome, it is often challenging to assign genomic variants to the underlying causal mechanism(s). Topologically associating domains (TADs) are primarily cell-type-independent genomic regions that define interactome boundaries and can aid in the designation of limits within which an association most likely impacts gene function. We describe and validate a computational method that uses the genic content of TADs to prioritize candidate genes. Our method, called 'TAD_Pathways', performs a Gene Ontology (GO) analysis over genes that reside within TAD boundaries corresponding to GWAS signals for a given trait or disease. Applying our pipeline to the bone mineral density (BMD) GWAS catalog, we identify 'Skeletal System Development' (Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted P = 1.02x10(-5)) as the top-ranked pathway. In many cases, our method implicated a gene other than the nearest gene. Our molecular experiments describe a novel example: ACP2, implicated near the canonical 'ARHGAP1' locus. We found ACP2 to be an important regulator of osteoblast metabolism, whereas ARHGAP1 was not supported. Our results via BMD, for example, demonstrate how basic principles of three-dimensional genome organization can define biologically informed association windows.
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