Systematic identification and interpretation of repetitive variants underlying schizophrenia
Systematic identification and interpretation of repetitive variants underlying schizophrenia
批准号:
10239011
负责人:
Melissa Gymrek
金额:
$38.75万
依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
财政年份:
2017
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
关键词:
AffectAlgorithmsAllelesAtaxiaBase PairingBioinformaticsBiologicalCatalogsCohort StudiesComplexComputational TechniqueComputing MethodologiesCopy Number PolymorphismDNADNA analysisDataData SetDiseaseDissectionFailureFamilyFragile X SyndromeGene ExpressionGenerationsGenesGeneticGenetic PolymorphismGenetic VariationGenome ScanGenomicsGenotypeGoalsHaplotypesHeritabilityHuntington DiseaseHypermethylationIndividualLinkMalignant NeoplasmsMedicalMendelian disorderMental disordersMethodsModelingMolecular GeneticsMorbidity - disease rateMutationNeurologicPatientsPhasePhenotypePlayPoint MutationPopulationPopulation GeneticsPositioning AttributePropertyRNARoleSNP arraySamplingSchizophreniaShort Tandem RepeatSignal TransductionSingle Nucleotide PolymorphismSourceSpliced GenesStatistical MethodsTandem Repeat SequencesTechnologyTestingToxic effectVariantbaseburden of illnesscausal variantcohortdisabilityfollow-upfrontotemporal lobar dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosisgenetic pedigreegenetic variantgenome wide association studygenome-widegenome-wide analysisgenomic locushigh throughput technologyhuman diseaseinnovationmortalitymultidisciplinarynext generation sequencingnovelpolyglutaminepsychogeneticsschizophrenia risksingle moleculetooltrait
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PROJECT SUMMARY
Schizophrenia is a heritable psychiatric disease affecting approximately 1% of the population. The
disease is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is a leading cause of disability. Genomewide
association studies (GWAS) have identified >100 genetic loci associated with schizophrenia. However
standard GWAS are largely limited to detecting simple point mutations, or single nucleotide polymorphisms
(SNPs), consisting of single base pair substitutions. Thus, GWAS is unable to capture complex variants such
as copy number variants (CNVs) and tandem repeats (TRs) that are not well tagged by SNPs.
Multiple lines of evidence support the hypothesis that TRs play a role in psychiatric disease. TRs are
one of the largest sources of genetic variation, are weakly tagged by SNPs, and play a significant role in
regulating gene expression and splicing. Intriguingly, >30 Mendelian disorders are caused by TR expansions.
Nearly all repeat disorders involve neurological phenotypes, many have psychiatric components, and some
implicated genes have also been identified in schizophrenia GWAS.
I hypothesize that tandem repeats play a significant role in schizophrenia risk and drive a subset of
GWAS signals. I propose to develop an array of computational techniques to integrate TRs into psychiatric and
other GWAS. In Aim 1 we will develop algorithms to accurately genotype long TR polymorphisms in large
nextgeneration sequencing cohorts. In Aim 2 we will generate a high quality reference haplotype panel for a
targeted set of TRs using traditional familybased phasing methods combined with long range phasing from
novel singlemolecule sequencing technologies. In Aim 3 we will deeply characterize medically relevant TRs in
psychiatric disease by imputing TRs into large existing GWAS cohorts. Finally, in Aim 4 we will develop a novel
haplotype test capturing genomewide TR associations from existing GWAS datasets. Taken together, these
innovations will provide a powerful framework for interrogating the role of TRs in human disease.
Genomewide scans for association (Aim 4) can be combined with targeted methods of Aims 13 for
genotyping or imputing TRs, fine mapping against other variant types, and performing functional follow up.
Technologies for high throughput TR genotyping and imputation will revolutionize our ability to discover
diseaseassociated TRs and enable unprecedented study of TRs in broad applications including GWAS,
Mendelian genetics, and cancer.
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