Transcriptional linkage analysis with in vivo AAV-Perturb-seq
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ABSTRACT: The ever-growing compendium of genetic variants associated with human pathologies demands novel methods to study genotype-phenotype relationships in complex tissues in high-throughput. Here, we introduce AAV-mediated direct in vivo single-cell CRISPR screens, termed AAV-Perturb-seq, a tunable and broadly applicable method for high-throughput and high-resolution phenotyping of genetic perturbations in vivo. We applied AAV-Perturb-seq using gene editing and transcriptional inhibition to systematically dissect the phenotypic landscape underlying 22q11.2 deletion syndrome genes in the adult mouse brain prefrontal cortex. We identified three 22q11.2-linked genes involved in known and novel pathways orchestrating neuronal functions in vivo that explain approximately 40% of the transcriptional changes observed in a 22q11.2 deletion mouse model. Our findings suggest that the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome transcriptional phenotype found in mature neurons may in part be due to the broad dysregulation of a class of disease susceptibility genes important for dysfunctional RNA processing and synaptic function. Our work establishes a flexible and scalable direct in vivo method to facilitate causal understanding of biological and disease mechanisms with potential applications to identify genetic interventions and therapeutic targets for treating disease.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE236519 | GEO | 2023/09/20
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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