Project description:Coeliac disease is a highly heritable common autoimmune disease involving chronic small intestinal inflammation in response to dietary wheat. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region, and 40 newer regions identified by genome wide association studies (GWAS) and dense fine mapping, account for ~40% of the disease heritability. We hypothesized that in pedigrees with multiple individuals with coeliac disease rare [minor allele frequency (MAF) <0.5%] mutations of larger effect size (odds ratios of ~ 2 – 5) might exist. We sequenced the exomes of 75 coeliac individuals of European ancestry from 55 multiply affected families. We selected interesting variants and genes for further follow up using a combination of: an assessment of shared variants between related subjects, a model-free linkage test, and gene burden tests for multiple, potentially causal, variants. We next performed highly multiplexed amplicon resequencing of all RefSeq exons from 24 candidate genes selected on the basis of the exome sequencing data in 2,248 unrelated coeliac cases and 2,230 controls. 1,335 variants with a 99.9% genotyping call rate were observed in 4,478 samples, of which 939 were present in coding regions of 24 genes (Ti/Tv 2.99). 91.7% of coding variants were rare (MAF <0.5%) and 60% were novel. Gene burden tests performed on rare functional variants identified no significant associations (P<1x10-3) in the resequenced candidate genes. Our strategy of sequencing multiply affected families with deep follow up of candidate genes has not identified any new coeliac disease risk mutations.
Project description:In the present study two large, multiply affected bipolar disorder families from Cuba were investigated using whole exome sequencing (Illumina HiSeq2500 v4). The variant calling files (VCFs) of 15 individuals provided here were generated using the Varbank exome pipeline from the Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG, https://varbank.ccg.uni-koeln.de).
Project description:Whole exome sequencing of 5 HCLc tumor-germline pairs. Genomic DNA from HCLc tumor cells and T-cells for germline was used. Whole exome enrichment was performed with either Agilent SureSelect (50Mb, samples S3G/T, S5G/T, S9G/T) or Roche Nimblegen (44.1Mb, samples S4G/T and S6G/T). The resulting exome libraries were sequenced on the Illumina HiSeq platform with paired-end 100bp reads to an average depth of 120-134x. Bam files were generated using NovoalignMPI (v3.0) to align the raw fastq files to the reference genome sequence (hg19) and picard tools (v1.34) to flag duplicate reads (optical or pcr), unmapped reads, reads mapping to more than one location, and reads failing vendor QC.
Project description:Purpose: A method for mapping chromatin accessibility genome-wide, to reveal chromatin accessibility in Intestinal stem cells. Methods: Intestinal stem cells(Lgr5-high cells) were sorted by flow cytometry from wild type mice. The samples were prepared in duplicate. HISAT2 was used to align the sequences to the mouse genome and generate bam files. bamCoverage was used to generate bigwig files from bam files. MACS2 (v2.2.5) was used for peak calling and to generate bed files from aligned reads. Conclusions: ATAC-seq analysis confirmed that Fosb binding sites in Chip-seq assay were correlated with the chromatin accessibility .
Project description:Overview: RNA-seq was used to profile the whole-transcriptome gene expression of highly replicated schizont-stage cultures of W2mef and Dd2 grown under static and suspended conditions. Methods: Transcript profiles of schizont stages of static and suspended W2mef and Dd2 were generated by RNA sequencing. Two to eight replicates were sequenced per sample. Illumina stranded TruSeq libraries were sequenced using an Illumina MiSeq. Hisat2 was used to align paired-end fastQ files and indexed bam files generated with samtools. Bam files were filtered to exclude reads with MAPQ scores below 60, reads counted using the SummarizeOverlaps feature of the GenomicAlignments package in R and differential expression analysis conducted using DESeq2 in R. Results: We show that in addition to invasion-related genes, parasites that have been induced to switch invasion phenotype upon culturing in suspension increase the expression of a number of genes most of which belong to gene families that code for exported proteins. Conclusions: Our data suggest that in addition to invasion phenotype switch, suspension cultures may select for other parasite properties that may be essential for parasite survival in vivo.