Project description:We undertook transcriptome profiling with RNA-sequencing of scalp skin from seven cases of European ancestry and seven matched controls.
Project description:To reveal genetic determinants of susceptibility to COVID-19 severity in the population and further explore potential immune-related factors, we performed a genome-wide association study on 284 confirmed COVID-19 patients (cases) and 95 healthy individuals (controls). We compared cases and controls of European (EUR) ancestry and African American (AFR) ancestry separately. To further exploring the linkage between HLA and COVID-19 severity, we applied fine-mapping analysis to dissect the HLA association with mild and severe cases.
Project description:Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract. African ancestry (AA) populations have been substantially under-represented in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of CD and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), reflecting in part the lower prevalence of CD in AA compared to European ancestry (EA) populations. Importantly, CD complicated by perianal fistulae has been found to be more prevalent and severe in African-ancestry patients. Perianal fistulae arise from the distal rectal mucosa and can course to a cutaneous surface, resulting in highly morbid complications. Monoclonal antibodies against anti-TNF are the mainstay of treatment, but recurrence and secondary loss-of-response is common. In severe, uncontrolled cases, complete proctectomy is required. The intestine is unique among adult tissues in that under homeostasis, residential macrophages are continually replenished from recruited blood monocytes. In EA cohorts, we established that chronic monocyte cultures stimulated with NOD2 agonists result in aberrant myeloid-stromal differentiation stratified by risk allele carrier status. NOD2 risk alleles are not associated with perianal fistulae; African-American patients with CD do not carry them (except via recent European ancestry admixture). There is no direct association between known CD GWAS risk loci and the risk of developing perianal fistula. Here, we present direct ex-vivo, single cell multiomic analyses of colorectal tissues and perianal fistulous tracts in AA and EA cases to define mechanisms of perianal fistula development. We implicate myeloid-stromal crosstalk and define cell subtypes using single cell RNA (scRNASeq), ATAC sequencing, and chronic, unstimulated monocyte cultures. Transcription factor motifs and ATAC signals co-localized with fine-mapped GWAS loci provide insight to cell-specific and transcriptional network regulation.
Project description:Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract. African ancestry (AA) populations have been substantially under-represented in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of CD and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), reflecting in part the lower prevalence of CD in AA compared to European ancestry (EA) populations. Importantly, CD complicated by perianal fistulae has been found to be more prevalent and severe in African-ancestry patients. Perianal fistulae arise from the distal rectal mucosa and can course to a cutaneous surface, resulting in highly morbid complications. Monoclonal antibodies against anti-TNF are the mainstay of treatment, but recurrence and secondary loss-of-response is common. In severe, uncontrolled cases, complete proctectomy is required. The intestine is unique among adult tissues in that under homeostasis, residential macrophages are continually replenished from recruited blood monocytes. In EA cohorts, we established that chronic monocyte cultures stimulated with NOD2 agonists result in aberrant myeloid-stromal differentiation stratified by risk allele carrier status. NOD2 risk alleles are not associated with perianal fistulae; African-American patients with CD do not carry them (except via recent European ancestry admixture). There is no direct association between known CD GWAS risk loci and the risk of developing perianal fistula. Here, we present direct ex-vivo, single cell multiomic analyses of colorectal tissues and perianal fistulous tracts in AA and EA cases to define mechanisms of perianal fistula development. We implicate myeloid-stromal crosstalk and define cell subtypes using single cell RNA (scRNASeq), ATAC sequencing, and chronic, unstimulated monocyte cultures. Transcription factor motifs and ATAC signals co-localized with fine-mapped GWAS loci provide insight to cell-specific and transcriptional network regulation.
Project description:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of genetic risk loci for coronary artery disease (CAD). However, non-European populations are underrepresented in coronary artery disease (CAD). However, non-European populations are underrepresented in GWAS and the causal gene-regulatory mechanisms of these risk loci during atherosclerosis remain unclear. We incorporated local ancestry and haplotype information to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for gene expression and splicing in coronary arteries obtained from 138 ancestrally diverse Americans.
Project description:Summary statistics of a GWAS meta-analysis for frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA). A total of 7,039,930 genotyped and imputed variants were used for 1,044 European severe FFA cases and 4,145 matched population controls.
Project description:Genome-wide association study performed on the EPICOLON2 cohort, comprising colorectal cancer cases and matched controls of Spanish origin.
Project description:Transcriptome analysis of postmortem brain samples frrom frontal and temporal cortex of Rett Syndrome cases and matched controls. These data identify genes differentially expressed in postmortem brain tissue from Rett Syndrome cases.