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Polymorphic cis- and trans-regulation of human gene expression.


ABSTRACT: Expression levels of human genes vary extensively among individuals. This variation facilitates analyses of expression levels as quantitative phenotypes in genetic studies where the entire genome can be scanned for regulators without prior knowledge of the regulatory mechanisms, thus enabling the identification of unknown regulatory relationships. Here, we carried out such genetic analyses with a large sample size and identified cis- and trans-acting polymorphic regulators for about 1,000 human genes. We validated the cis-acting regulators by demonstrating differential allelic expression with sequencing of transcriptomes (RNA-Seq) and the trans-regulators by gene knockdown, metabolic assays, and chromosome conformation capture analysis. The majority of the regulators act in trans to the target (regulated) genes. Most of these trans-regulators were not known to play a role in gene expression regulation. The identification of these regulators enabled the characterization of polymorphic regulation of human gene expression at a resolution that was unattainable in the past.

SUBMITTER: Cheung VG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2939022 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Polymorphic cis- and trans-regulation of human gene expression.

Cheung Vivian G VG   Nayak Renuka R RR   Wang Isabel Xiaorong IX   Elwyn Susannah S   Cousins Sarah M SM   Morley Michael M   Spielman Richard S RS  

PLoS biology 20100914 9


Expression levels of human genes vary extensively among individuals. This variation facilitates analyses of expression levels as quantitative phenotypes in genetic studies where the entire genome can be scanned for regulators without prior knowledge of the regulatory mechanisms, thus enabling the identification of unknown regulatory relationships. Here, we carried out such genetic analyses with a large sample size and identified cis- and trans-acting polymorphic regulators for about 1,000 human  ...[more]

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