bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 28, 2023
CRISPR-based
gene
activation
(CRISPRa)
is
a
promising
therapeutic
approach
for
therapy,
upregulating
expression
by
targeting
promoters
or
enhancers
in
tissue/cell-type
specific
manner.
Here,
we
describe
an
experimental
framework
that
combines
highly
multiplexed
perturbations
with
single-cell
RNA
sequencing
(sc-RNA-seq)
to
identify
cell-type-specific,
CRISPRa-responsive
Nature Biotechnology,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
42(8), P. 1282 - 1295
Published: Oct. 23, 2023
Abstract
Pooled
CRISPR
screens
with
single-cell
RNA
sequencing
readout
(Perturb-seq)
have
emerged
as
a
key
technique
in
functional
genomics,
but
they
are
limited
scale
by
cost
and
combinatorial
complexity.
In
this
study,
we
modified
the
design
of
Perturb-seq
incorporating
algorithms
applied
to
random,
low-dimensional
observations.
Compressed
measures
multiple
random
perturbations
per
cell
or
cells
droplet
computationally
decompresses
these
measurements
leveraging
sparse
structure
regulatory
circuits.
Applied
598
genes
immune
response
bacterial
lipopolysaccharide,
compressed
achieves
same
accuracy
conventional
an
order
magnitude
reduction
greater
power
learn
genetic
interactions.
We
identified
known
novel
regulators
responses
uncovered
evolutionarily
constrained
downstream
targets
enriched
for
disease
heritability,
including
many
missed
existing
genome-wide
association
studies.
Our
framework
enables
new
scales
interrogation
foundational
method
genomics.
American Journal of Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
180(11), P. 815 - 826
Published: Sept. 27, 2023
Schizophrenia
is
associated
with
increased
risk
of
cardiovascular
disease
(CVD),
although
there
variation
in
among
individuals.
There
are
indications
shared
genetic
etiology
between
schizophrenia
and
CVD,
but
the
nature
overlap
remains
unclear.
The
aim
this
study
was
to
fill
gap
knowledge.Overlapping
architectures
CVD
factors
were
assessed
by
analyzing
recent
genome-wide
association
(GWAS)
results.
bivariate
causal
mixture
model
(MiXeR)
applied
estimate
number
variants
conjunctional
false
discovery
rate
(conjFDR)
approach
used
pinpoint
specific
loci.Extensive
found
factors,
particularly
smoking
initiation
(N=8.6K
variants)
body
mass
index
(BMI)
(N=8.1K
variants).
Several
loci
detected
BMI
(N=304),
waist-to-hip
ratio
(N=193),
(N=293),
systolic
(N=294)
diastolic
(N=259)
blood
pressure,
type
2
diabetes
(N=147),
lipids
(N=471),
coronary
artery
(N=35).
had
mainly
concordant
effect
directions,
opposite
directions.
overlapping
lipids,
ratio,
diabetes,
mixed
Functional
analyses
implicated
mapped
genes
that
expressed
brain
tissue
immune
cells.These
findings
indicate
a
propensity
reduced
obesity
individuals
schizophrenia.
bidirectional
effects
other
may
imply
differences
liability
across
subgroups,
possibly
underlying
comorbidity.