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Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions.

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Sieberts, SK; Perumal, TM; Carrasquillo, MM; Allen, M; Reddy, JS; Hoffman, GE; Dang, KK; Calley, J; Ebert, PJ; Eddy, J; Wang, X; Greenwood, AK ...
Published in: Sci Data
October 12, 2020

The availability of high-quality RNA-sequencing and genotyping data of post-mortem brain collections from consortia such as CommonMind Consortium (CMC) and the Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Alzheimer's Disease (AMP-AD) Consortium enable the generation of a large-scale brain cis-eQTL meta-analysis. Here we generate cerebral cortical eQTL from 1433 samples available from four cohorts (identifying >4.1 million significant eQTL for >18,000 genes), as well as cerebellar eQTL from 261 samples (identifying 874,836 significant eQTL for >10,000 genes). We find substantially improved power in the meta-analysis over individual cohort analyses, particularly in comparison to the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project eQTL. Additionally, we observed differences in eQTL patterns between cerebral and cerebellar brain regions. We provide these brain eQTL as a resource for use by the research community. As a proof of principle for their utility, we apply a colocalization analysis to identify genes underlying the GWAS association peaks for schizophrenia and identify a potentially novel gene colocalization with lncRNA RP11-677M14.2 (posterior probability of colocalization 0.975).

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Sci Data

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2052-4463

Publication Date

October 12, 2020

Volume

7

Issue

1

Start / End Page

340

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Schizophrenia
  • RNA, Long Noncoding
  • Quantitative Trait Loci
  • Meta-Analysis as Topic
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Datasets as Topic
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Cerebellar Cortex
 

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Sieberts, S. K., Perumal, T. M., Carrasquillo, M. M., Allen, M., Reddy, J. S., Hoffman, G. E., … Mangravite, L. M. (2020). Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions. Sci Data, 7(1), 340. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00642-8
Sieberts, Solveig K., Thanneer M. Perumal, Minerva M. Carrasquillo, Mariet Allen, Joseph S. Reddy, Gabriel E. Hoffman, Kristen K. Dang, et al. “Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions.Sci Data 7, no. 1 (October 12, 2020): 340. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00642-8.
Sieberts SK, Perumal TM, Carrasquillo MM, Allen M, Reddy JS, Hoffman GE, et al. Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions. Sci Data. 2020 Oct 12;7(1):340.
Sieberts, Solveig K., et al. “Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions.Sci Data, vol. 7, no. 1, Oct. 2020, p. 340. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00642-8.
Sieberts SK, Perumal TM, Carrasquillo MM, Allen M, Reddy JS, Hoffman GE, Dang KK, Calley J, Ebert PJ, Eddy J, Wang X, Greenwood AK, Mostafavi S, CommonMind Consortium (CMC), The AMP-AD Consortium, Omberg L, Peters MA, Logsdon BA, De Jager PL, Ertekin-Taner N, Mangravite LM. Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions. Sci Data. 2020 Oct 12;7(1):340.

Published In

Sci Data

DOI

EISSN

2052-4463

Publication Date

October 12, 2020

Volume

7

Issue

1

Start / End Page

340

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Schizophrenia
  • RNA, Long Noncoding
  • Quantitative Trait Loci
  • Meta-Analysis as Topic
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Datasets as Topic
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Cerebellar Cortex