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Small noncoding differentially methylated copy-number variants, including lncRNA genes, cause a lethal lung developmental disorder.

ABSTRACT: An unanticipated and tremendous amount of the noncoding sequence of the human genome is transcribed. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) constitute a significant fraction of non-protein-coding transcripts; however, their functions remain enigmatic. We demonstrate that deletions of a small noncoding differentially methylated region at 16q24.1, including lncRNA genes, cause a lethal lung developmental disorder, alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV), with parent-of-origin effects. We identify overlapping deletions 250 kb upstream of FOXF1 in nine patients with ACD/MPV that arose de novo specifically on the maternally inherited chromosome and delete lung-specific lncRNA genes. These deletions define a distant cis-regulatory region that harbors, besides lncRNA genes, also a differentially methylated CpG island, binds GLI2 depending on the methylation status of this CpG island, and physically interacts with and up-regulates the FOXF1 promoter. We suggest that lung-transcribed 16q24.1 lncRNAs may contribute to long-range regulation of FOXF1 by GLI2 and other transcription factors. Perturbation of lncRNA-mediated chromatin interactions may, in general, be responsible for position effect phenomena and potentially cause many disorders of human development.

SUBMITTER: Szafranski P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3530681 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Small noncoding differentially methylated copy-number variants, including lncRNA genes, cause a lethal lung developmental disorder.

Szafranski Przemyslaw P Dharmadhikari Avinash V AV Brosens Erwin E Gurha Priyatansh P Kolodziejska Katarzyna E KE Zhishuo Ou O Dittwald Piotr P Majewski Tadeusz T Mohan K Naga KN Chen Bo B Person Richard E RE Tibboel Dick D de Klein Annelies A Pinner Jason J Chopra Maya M Malcolm Girvan G Peters Gregory G Arbuckle Susan S Guiang Sixto F SF Hustead Virginia A VA Jessurun Jose J Hirsch Russel R Witte David P DP Maystadt Isabelle I Sebire Neil N Fisher Richard R Langston Claire C Sen Partha P Stankiewicz Paweł P

Genome research 20121003 1

An unanticipated and tremendous amount of the noncoding sequence of the human genome is transcribed. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) constitute a significant fraction of non-protein-coding transcripts; however, their functions remain enigmatic. We demonstrate that deletions of a small noncoding differentially methylated region at 16q24.1, including lncRNA genes, cause a lethal lung developmental disorder, alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV), with parent-of-o ...[more]

PMID: 23034409

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Small noncoding differentially methylated copy-number variants, including lncRNA genes, cause a lethal lung developmental disorder.

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Small noncoding differentially methylated copy-number variants, including lncRNA genes, cause a lethal lung developmental disorder.

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