Sensitive mapping of chromatin-altering polymorphisms reveals molecular drivers of autoimmune disease

ABSTRACT: Although most disease associations detected by GWAS are nongenic, very few have been mapped to causal regulatory variants. Here, we present a method for detecting regulatory QTLs that does not require genotyping or whole-genome sequencing. The method combines deep, long-read ChIP-seq with a new statistical test that simultaneously scores peak height correlation and allelic imbalance: the Genotype-independent Signal Correlation and Imbalance (G-SCI) test. We performed histone acetylation ChIP-seq on 57 human lymphoblastoid cell lines and used the resulting reads to call 500,066 SNPs de novo within regulatory elements. The G-SCI test annotated 8,764 of these as histone acetylation QTLs (haQTLs) - an order of magnitude larger than the set of candidates detected by expression QTL analysis. Lym

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Ricardo del Rosario 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-58852 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress