The non-coding variant rs1800734 enhances DCLK3 expression through long-range interaction and promotes colorectal cancer progression
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ABSTRACT: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a great number of non-coding risk variants for colorectal cancer (CRC). To date, the majority of these variants have not been functionally studied. Identification of allele-specific transcription factor (TF) binding is of great importance to understand regulatory consequences of such variants. A recently developed proteome-wide analysis of disease-associated SNPs (PWAS) enables identification of DNA-TF interactions in an unbiased fashion. Here, we performed a large-scale PWAS studies to comprehensively characterize TF binding related to CRC, which identified 731 allele-specific TF binding at 116 CRC risk loci. This screen identified rs1800734 within the promoter region of MLH1 as perturbing the binding of TFAP4 and consequently increaseing DCLK3 expression through a long-range interaction, which promotes cancer progression through enhancing expression of the genes related to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT).
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE83968 | GEO | 2017/02/15
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA327574
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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