Multi-omic genetic regulatory signatures underlying tissue complexity of diabetes in the pancreas at single-cell spatial resolution

在此输入文本，它是您的应用程序的新摘要信息。此部分不得超过30行文本。 糖尿病是一种复杂的疾病，它是遗传和环境因素累积的时间效应的结果。常见和罕见的糖尿病的一个特点是产生胰岛素的β细胞遗传失调，这些细胞驻留在朗格汉斯的胰岛，分散在整个胰腺的更大范围内。2型糖尿病是一种最常见的糖尿病，尽管其全基因组关联研究发现&gt；600信号在统计学上是独立的，但由于其主要的非编码位置，这些信号很难转化为生物学机制。因此，我们建议从多个维度：细胞类型、年龄、性别、发育阶段和遗传背景，绘制胰腺中T2D和相关特征GWAs信号的上下文特异性图谱。我们的建议是基于我们激动人心的单细胞多组体空间分辨试验数据和得到良好支持的想法，即非编码GWAS信号通过影响细胞电路的复杂和分层的分子网络向上渗透。在这个层次结构中的第一层是染色质组织，它将遗传倾向传播到后续的分子层，很可能从转录组开始。由于胰岛生理受到胰腺内周围细胞的特性和空间排列的影响，我们的多峰分子分析将集中在四个主要的胰腺谱系：内分泌α和β细胞，腺泡细胞和导管细胞。此外，我们将结合对组织驻留巨噬细胞的分析，因为它们在几个过程中发挥着重要作用，包括胰岛/胰腺细胞的分化、生长、再生和炎症。拟议的研究将建立调控元件、基因、细胞类型、组织结构和生理功能之间的联系。我们的多学科研究团队在胰腺和胰岛生物学、测序技术、单细胞基因组学和表观基因组学、图像数据分析和机器学习方面拥有互补的专业知识，设计了一套工具和分析来发现不同条件下细胞状态的动态变化，以及这些变化如何影响下游生物学，从转录调控到胰腺内的细胞空间组织，最后到组织水平的生理学。这种方法，如果成功，将使机械洞察力跨越GWA基因座，从而为新的个性化治疗策略提供信息。

Enter the text here that is the new abstract information for your application. This section must be no longer than 30 lines of text. Diabetes is a complex disease that results from the cumulative temporal effects of genetic and environmental factors. A hallmark of both common and rare forms of diabetes is genetic dysregulation of insulin-producing β cells which reside in islets of Langerhans and are scattered throughout the larger context of the entire pancreas. Although genome wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D), the most common form of diabetes, identified >600 statistically independent signals, they are difficult to translate into biological mechanisms because of their predominant noncoding location. Therefore, we propose to map the context specificity of T2D and related trait GWAS signals in pancreas across multiple dimensions: cell type, age, sex, developmental stage, and genetic background. Our proposal is based on our exciting single-cell multi-omic spatially-resolved pilot data and the well-supported idea that noncoding GWAS signals percolate upwards through complex and hierarchical molecular networks that influence cellular circuits. The initial layer in this hierarchy is chromatin organization, which propagates genetic predisposition onto subsequent molecular layers, likely starting with the transcriptome. Because islet physiology is influenced by the identity and spatial arrangement of surrounding cells within the pancreas, our multimodal molecular analyses will focus on four major pancreatic lineages; endocrine α and β cells, acinar, and ductal cells. In addition, we will incorporate the analysis of tissue resident macrophages because they play an important role in several processes including islet/pancreatic cell differentiation, growth, regeneration, and inflammation. The proposed studies will establish associations between regulatory elements, genes, cell types, tissue organization, and physiological function. Our multidisciplinary research team with complementary expertise in pancreas and islet biology, sequencing technologies, single cell genomics and epigenomics, image data analysis, and machine learning devised a suite of tools and analyses to discover cell state dynamic changes across diverse conditions, and how these changes influence downstream biology from transcriptional regulation, to cellular spatial organization within the pancreas, and finally to tissue-level physiology. This approach, if successful, will enable mechanistic insights across GWAS loci, which can inform new personalized therapeutic strategies.