Publication Date:
2011-02-11
Description:
Genome-wide association studies have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the 9p21 gene desert associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and type 2 diabetes. Despite evidence for a role of the associated interval in neighbouring gene regulation, the biological underpinnings of these genetic associations with CAD or type 2 diabetes have not yet been explained. Here we identify 33 enhancers in 9p21; the interval is the second densest gene desert for predicted enhancers and six times denser than the whole genome (P 〈 6.55 x 10(-33)). The CAD risk alleles of SNPs rs10811656 and rs10757278 are located in one of these enhancers and disrupt a binding site for STAT1. Lymphoblastoid cell lines homozygous for the CAD risk haplotype show no binding of STAT1, and in lymphoblastoid cell lines homozygous for the CAD non-risk haplotype, binding of STAT1 inhibits CDKN2BAS (also known as CDKN2B-AS1) expression, which is reversed by short interfering RNA knockdown of STAT1. Using a new, open-ended approach to detect long-distance interactions, we find that in human vascular endothelial cells the enhancer interval containing the CAD locus physically interacts with the CDKN2A/B locus, the MTAP gene and an interval downstream of IFNA21. In human vascular endothelial cells, interferon-gamma activation strongly affects the structure of the chromatin and the transcriptional regulation in the 9p21 locus, including STAT1-binding, long-range enhancer interactions and altered expression of neighbouring genes. Our findings establish a link between CAD genetic susceptibility and the response to inflammatory signalling in a vascular cell type and thus demonstrate the utility of genome-wide association study findings in directing studies to novel genomic loci and biological processes important for disease aetiology.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079517/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079517/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Harismendy, Olivier -- Notani, Dimple -- Song, Xiaoyuan -- Rahim, Nazli G -- Tanasa, Bogdan -- Heintzman, Nathaniel -- Ren, Bing -- Fu, Xiang-Dong -- Topol, Eric J -- Rosenfeld, Michael G -- Frazer, Kelly A -- 1R21CA152613-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 1U54RR025204/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- 1UL1RR025774/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- 1UL1RR031980-01/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- CA97134/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- DK018477/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK074868/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK39949/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK74686/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- HL065445/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- L65445/PHS HHS/ -- NS34934/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P01 AG025204/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- P01 AG025204-01/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA097134/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK018477/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK018477-35/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK039949/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK039949-29/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL065445/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL065445-12/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS034934/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R21 CA152613/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R21 CA152613-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R21 CA152613-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R37 DK039949/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- U01 HL107442/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- UL1 RR025774/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- UL1 RR025774-01/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- UL1 RR031980/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- UL1 RR031980-01/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Feb 10;470(7333):264-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09753.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pediatrics and Rady's Children's Hospital, University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21307941" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Cell Line
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Chromatin/drug effects/genetics/metabolism
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9/*genetics
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Conserved Sequence/genetics
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Coronary Artery Disease/*genetics
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Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p15/genetics
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/genetics
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Endothelial Cells/drug effects/metabolism
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Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics
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European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
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Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects/genetics
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Gene Knockdown Techniques
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Genetic Predisposition to Disease/*genetics
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*Genetic Variation
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Genome-Wide Association Study
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Haplotypes/genetics
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HeLa Cells
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Humans
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Interferon-alpha/genetics
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Interferon-gamma/*pharmacology
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Linkage Disequilibrium
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Male
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics
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Protein Binding/drug effects
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Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase/genetics
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STAT1 Transcription Factor/biosynthesis/deficiency/genetics/metabolism
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Signal Transduction/*drug effects
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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