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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2015

Deciphering H3K4me3 broad domains associated with gene-regulatory networks and conserved epigenomic landscapes in the human brain.

A Dincer, D P Gavin, K Xu, B Zhang, J T Dudley, E E Schadt, S Akbarian

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

A DincerDepartment of Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
D P GavinDepartment of Psychiatry, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
K XuDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
B ZhangDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
J T DudleyDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
E E SchadtDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
S AkbarianDepartment of Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USAllen Institute for Brain Science · USJesse Brown VA Medical Center · US

Funding

REPRESSIVE HISTONE AND DNA METHYLATION IN RODENT DEPRESSION MODELSP50MH096890 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI TAMMINGA, CAROL A · 2012 to 2021
$20.2M
Cis-Regulatory Epigenome Mappings in SchizophreniaU01MH103392 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI AKBARIAN, SCHAHRAM, SKLAR, PAMELA · 2014 to 2017
$7.6M
BLRD VA IK2 BX001650NIMH NIH HHS MH103392NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH096890NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH103392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulators of the histone H3-trimethyl lysine-4 (H3K4me3) mark are significantly associated with the genetic risk architecture of common neurodevelopmental disease, including schizophrenia and autism. Typical H3K4me3 is primarily localized in the form of sharp peaks, extending in neuronal chromatin on average only across 500-1500 base pairs mostly in close proximity to annotated transcription start sites. Here, through integrative computational analysis of epigenomic and transcriptomic data based on next-generation sequencing, we investigated H3K4me3 landscapes of sorted neuronal and non-neuronal nuclei in human postmortem, non-human primate and mouse prefrontal cortex (PFC), and blood. To explore whether H3K4me3 peak signals could also extend across much broader domains, we examined broadest domain cell-type-specific H3K4me3 peaks in an unbiased manner with an innovative approach on 41+12 ChIP-seq and RNA-seq data sets. In PFC neurons, broadest H3K4me3 distribution ranged from 3.9 to 12 kb, with extremely broad peaks (~10 kb or broader) related to synaptic function and GABAergic signaling (DLX1, ELFN1, GAD1, IGSF9B and LINC00966). Broadest neuronal peaks showed distinct motif signatures and were centrally positioned in prefrontal gene-regulatory Bayesian networks and sensitive to defective neurodevelopment. Approximately 120 of the broadest H3K4me3 peaks in human PFC neurons, including many genes related to glutamatergic and dopaminergic signaling, were fully conserved in chimpanzee, macaque and mouse cortical neurons. Exploration of spread and breadth of lysine methylation markings could provide novel insights into epigenetic mechanism involved in neuropsychiatric disease and neuronal genome evolution.

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AdultAnimalsBrainEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleGene Regulatory NetworksHistonesHumansMacacaMaleMicePan troglodytesHistones

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PMID26575220
PMCPMC5068762
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