2021
Genome-wide functional screen of 3′UTR variants uncovers causal variants for human disease and evolution
Griesemer D, Xue JR, Reilly SK, Ulirsch JC, Kukreja K, Davis JR, Kanai M, Yang DK, Butts JC, Guney MH, Luban J, Montgomery SB, Finucane HK, Novina CD, Tewhey R, Sabeti PC. Genome-wide functional screen of 3′UTR variants uncovers causal variants for human disease and evolution. Cell 2021, 184: 5247-5260.e19. PMID: 34534445, PMCID: PMC8487971, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.025.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesCausal variantsEvolutionary adaptationGenome-wide functional screenDiverse molecular mechanismsHuman evolutionary adaptationBase-pair resolutionParallel reporterHuman cell linesMiRNA sitesTranscriptional changesFunctional screenAllelic replacementSimple sequenceMolecular mechanismsAssociation studiesRich elementsPair resolutionHuman diseasesPhenotype associationsHuman traitsUntranslated region variantsGenetic variantsRegulatory activityCell linesFunctional characterization of T2D-associated SNP effects on baseline and ER stress-responsive β cell transcriptional activation
Khetan S, Kales S, Kursawe R, Jillette A, Ulirsch JC, Reilly SK, Ucar D, Tewhey R, Stitzel ML. Functional characterization of T2D-associated SNP effects on baseline and ER stress-responsive β cell transcriptional activation. Nature Communications 2021, 12: 5242. PMID: 34475398, PMCID: PMC8413311, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25514-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesSingle nucleotide polymorphismsTranscriptional activationEndoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress conditionsTranscriptional stress responseCis-regulatory effectsParallel reporter assaysT2D single nucleotide polymorphismsHigh linkage disequilibriumMultiple single nucleotide polymorphismsT2D genetic riskT2D-associated single nucleotide polymorphismsMIN6 β-cellsChromatin accessibilityCandidate single nucleotide polymorphismsT2D geneticsHuman genomeAssociation signalsRepetitive elementsFunctional characterizationNuclear elementsMolecular mechanismsReporter assaysStress responseAssociation studiesDirect characterization of cis-regulatory elements and functional dissection of complex genetic associations using HCR–FlowFISH
Reilly SK, Gosai SJ, Gutierrez A, Mackay-Smith A, Ulirsch JC, Kanai M, Mouri K, Berenzy D, Kales S, Butler GM, Gladden-Young A, Bhuiyan RM, Stitzel ML, Finucane HK, Sabeti PC, Tewhey R. Direct characterization of cis-regulatory elements and functional dissection of complex genetic associations using HCR–FlowFISH. Nature Genetics 2021, 53: 1166-1176. PMID: 34326544, PMCID: PMC8925018, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00900-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingBayes TheoremClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsDelta-5 Fatty Acid DesaturaseDeoxyribonuclease IFatty Acid DesaturasesFlow CytometryGATA1 Transcription FactorHumansIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceK562 CellsLIM Domain ProteinsModels, GeneticPolymorphism, Single NucleotideProto-Oncogene ProteinsQuantitative Trait LociRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsConceptsCis-regulatory elementsGenome-wide association signalsGenome functionEpigenetic mappingComplex genetic associationsFunctional dissectionNearest geneGenetic variationAssociation signalsNative transcriptsTarget genesCausal variantsMultiple genesEndogenous functionsReporter assaysGenesCre activitySitu hybridizationGenetic associationFlow cytometryLociTranscriptsHierarchical Bayesian modelReaction fluorescenceHybridization
2016
Direct Identification of Hundreds of Expression-Modulating Variants using a Multiplexed Reporter Assay
Tewhey R, Kotliar D, Park DS, Liu B, Winnicki S, Reilly SK, Andersen KG, Mikkelsen TS, Lander ES, Schaffner SF, Sabeti PC. Direct Identification of Hundreds of Expression-Modulating Variants using a Multiplexed Reporter Assay. Cell 2016, 165: 1519-1529. PMID: 27259153, PMCID: PMC4957403, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.027.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-coding variantsCausal allelesCis-expression quantitative trait lociReporter assaysHundreds of lociQuantitative trait lociParallel reporter assaysNon-coding polymorphismsTrait lociControl regionGene expressionRegulatory functionsDifferential expressionHuman traitsHuman biologyAlters expressionAllelesLociProstaglandin EP4 receptorTraitsExpressionRisk allelesVariantsDirect identificationDirect evidence