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ArticleGenome research2025

Genetic regulation of nascent RNA maturation revealed by direct RNA nanopore sequencing.

Karine Choquet, Louis-Philippe Chaumont, Simon Bache, Autum R Baxter-Koenigs, L Stirling Churchman

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Article in Genome research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Karine ChoquetDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke J1E 4K8, Canada; karine.choquet@usherbrooke.ca churchman@genetics.med.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5625-7268
Louis-Philippe ChaumontDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke J1E 4K8, Canada.
Simon BacheDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke J1E 4K8, Canada.
Autum R Baxter-KoenigsDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
L Stirling ChurchmanDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA karine.choquet@usherbrooke.ca churchman@genetics.med.harvard.edu.

Funding

Global control of co-transcriptional splicingR01GM136794 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Lee Stirling Churchman · 2021 to 2026
$3.2M
Direct nanopore detection of modified RNA to probe structure and dynamicsR01HG010538 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI TIMP, WINSTON GEORGE · 2019 to 2022
$3.1M
Direct sequencing of nascent RNA to uncover the functional impact of genetic variants on RNA processingR21HG011682 · NHGRI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CHURCHMAN, LEE STIRLING · 2021 to 2021
$455k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010538NHGRI NIH HHS R21 HG011682NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM136794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative trait loci analyses have revealed an important role for genetic variants in regulating alternative splicing (AS) and alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA) in humans. Yet, these studies are generally performed with mature mRNA, so they report on the outcome rather than the processes of RNA maturation and thus may overlook how variants directly modulate pre-mRNA processing. The order in which the many introns of a human gene are removed can substantially influence AS, while nascent RNA polyadenylation can affect RNA stability and decay. However, how splicing order and poly(A) tail length are regulated by genetic variation has never been explored. Here, we used direct RNA nanopore sequencing to investigate allele-specific pre-mRNA maturation in 12 human lymphoblastoid cell lines. We find frequent splicing order differences between alleles and uncover significant single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-splicing order associations in 17 genes. This includes SNPs located in or near splice sites as well as more distal intronic and exonic SNPs. Moreover, several genes showed allele-specific poly(A) tail lengths, many of which also have a skewed allelic abundance ratio.

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Alternative SplicingNanopore SequencingRNA PrecursorsRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalAllelesCell LineExonsHumansIntronsPolyadenylationPolymorphism, Single NucleotideQuantitative Trait LociSequence Analysis, RNARNA Precursors

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PMID39952678
PMCPMC12047268

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