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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2019

Using Transcriptomic Hidden Variables to Infer Context-Specific Genotype Effects in the Brain.

Bernard Ng, William Casazza, Ellis Patrick, Shinya Tasaki, Gherman Novakovsky, Daniel Felsky, Yiyi Ma, David A Bennett, Chris Gaiteri, Philip L De Jager and 1 more

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Bernard NgDepartment of Statistics and Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4; Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada.
William CasazzaDepartment of Statistics and Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4; Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada.
Ellis PatrickSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Shinya TasakiRush Alzheimer Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Gherman NovakovskyCentre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada.
Daniel FelskyCenter for Translational and Computational Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Yiyi MaCenter for Translational and Computational Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
David A BennettRush Alzheimer Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Chris GaiteriRush Alzheimer Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Philip L De JagerCenter for Translational and Computational Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Sara MostafaviDepartment of Statistics and Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4; Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Child and Brain Development Program, Toronto M5G 1M1, Canada. Electronic address: saram@stat.ubc.ca.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · USPacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine · CARush University Medical Center · USThe University of Sydney · AUUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

SUPPLEMENT TO RUSH ALZHEIMERS DISEASE CENTER COREP30AG010161 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEURGANS, SUE E. · 1991 to 2020
$49.1M
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NEURAL RESERVE AND NEUROBIOLOGY IN AGINGR01AG017917 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 2001 to 2023
$43.3M
RISK FACTORS, PATHOLOGY, AND CLINICAL EXPRESSIONS OF ADR01AG015819 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 1998 to 2024
$21.4M
Pathway discovery, validation and compound identification for Alzheimer's disease - SupplementU01AG046152 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN, DE JAGER, PHILIP L · 2013 to 2017
$13.6M
Exploring the Role of the Brain Epigenome: Cognitive Decline and Life ExperiencesRF1AG036042 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN, DE JAGER, PHILIP L · 2016 to 2016
$5.5M
Exploring the Role of the Brain Epigenome: Cognitive Decline and Life ExperiencesR01AG036042 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 2009 to 2013
$4.1M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010161NIA NIH HHS R01 AG015819NIA NIH HHS R01 AG017917NIA NIH HHS R01 AG036042NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG036042NIA NIH HHS U01 AG046152
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deciphering the environmental contexts at which genetic effects are most prominent is central for making full use of GWAS results in follow-up experiment design and treatment development. However, measuring a large number of environmental factors at high granularity might not always be feasible. Instead, here we propose extracting cellular embedding of environmental factors from gene expression data by using latent variable (LV) analysis and taking these LVs as environmental proxies in detecting gene-by-environment (GxE) interaction effects on gene expression, i.e., GxE expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs). Applying this approach to two largest brain eQTL datasets (n = 1,100), we show that LVs and GxE eQTLs in one dataset replicate well in the other dataset. Combining the two samples via meta-analysis, 895 GxE eQTLs are identified. On average, GxE effect explains an additional ∼4% variation in expression of each gene that displays a GxE effect. Ten of these 52 genes are associated with cell-type-specific eQTLs, and the remaining genes are multi-functional. Furthermore, after substituting LVs with expression of transcription factors (TF), we found 91 TF-specific eQTLs, which demonstrates an important use of our brain GxE eQTLs.

Indexed as

GenotypeTranscriptomeBrainHumansQuantitative Trait Locicell-type specificitycellular embedding of environmentcontext-specific genotype effectseQTLgene by environment interactionsgene expression

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PMID31447098
PMCPMC6731371
OpenAlexW2969441599

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