volume 53 issue 9 pages 1300-1310

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

Urmo Võsa 1, 2
Annique Claringbould 1, 3, 4
Harm Jan Westra 1, 3
Marc Jan Bonder 1, 5
Patrick Deelen 1, 3, 6, 7
Biao Zeng 8
Holger Kirsten 9, 10
Ashis Saha 11
Roman Kreuzhuber 12, 13, 14
Seyhan Yazar 15
Harm Brugge 1, 3
Roy Oelen 1, 3
Dylan H De Vries 1, 3
Monique G P Van Der Wijst 1, 3
Silva Kasela 2
Natalia Pervjakova 2
Isabel Alves 16, 17
Marie Julie Favé 16
Mawusse Agbessi 16
Mark W Christiansen 18
Rick Jansen 19
Ilkka Seppälä 20
Tong Lin 21
Alexander Teumer 22, 23
Katharina Schramm 24, 25
Gibran Hemani 26
Joost A M Verlouw 27
Hanieh Yaghootkar 28, 29, 30
Reyhan Sönmez Flitman 31, 32
Andrew A Brown 33, 34
Viktorija Kukushkina 2
Anette Kalnapenkis 2
Sina Rüeger 35
Eleonora Porcu 35
Jaanika Kronberg 2
Johannes Kettunen 36, 37, 38, 39
Bernett Lee 40
Futao Zhang 41
TING QI 41
Jose Alquicira Hernandez 15
Wibowo Arindrarto 42
Frank Beutner 43
PETER A. C. 'T HOEN 44
Jenny van Dongen 45
Morris A Swertz 42
Marc Jan Bonder 46, 47
Julia Dmitrieva 48
Mahmoud Elansary 11, 49
Benjamin P. Fairfax 45
M. Georges 50
Alex W Hewitt 1, 6
Mika Kähönen 9, 10
Yungil Kim 8, 52, 53
Julian C Knight 54
Peter Kovacs 44, 55
Knut Krohn 24, 25, 56
Shuang Li 23, 57
Markus Loeffler 58
Urko M. Marigorta 19
Hailang Mei 59, 60
Yukihide Momozawa 61, 62, 63
Matthias Nauck 42
M.J.M Nivard 64
Brenda W. J. H. Penninx 65
Jonathan Pritchard 66
Olli T. Raitakari 67
Olaf Rötzschke 10, 68
Coen D.A. Stehouwer 69
Michael Stumvoll 42
Patrick Sullivan 70
Peter A.C. 't Hoen 71
Joachim Thiery 1, 3
Anke Tönjes 1
Jenny van Dongen 6
Maarten van Iterson 40
J. H. Veldink 41
Uwe Völker 72, 73, 74
Robert Warmerdam 75
Cisca Wijmenga 76
Morris A. Swertz 32, 33, 77
Anand Kumar Andiappan 31, 32
Samuli Ripatti 27
Markus Perola 78, 79
Zoltán Kutalik 21
Emmanouil K. Dermitzakis 21
Sven Bergmann 20
Timothy M Frayling 69
Joyce Van Meurs 80
Holger Prokisch 18, 81
Habibul Ahsan 16
Brandon L. Pierce 2
Terho Lehtimäki 12, 13, 82
Dorret I. Boomsma 12, 13
B Psaty 5, 14, 83
Sina A. Gharib 11, 84
Philip Awadalla 41
Lili Milani 41, 85, 86
W. Ouwehand 9, 10
Kate Downes 15, 87
Alexis Battle 2
P. B. Visscher 1, 3
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Oncode Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Department of Internal medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2021-09-03
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR16.586
CiteScore45.1
Impact factor29.0
ISSN10614036, 15461718
Genetics
Abstract
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we performed cis- and trans-expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analyses using blood-derived expression from 31,684 individuals through the eQTLGen Consortium. We detected cis-eQTL for 88% of genes, and these were replicable in numerous tissues. Distal trans-eQTL (detected for 37% of 10,317 trait-associated variants tested) showed lower replication rates, partially due to low replication power and confounding by cell type composition. However, replication analyses in single-cell RNA-seq data prioritized intracellular trans-eQTL. Trans-eQTL exerted their effects via several mechanisms, primarily through regulation by transcription factors. Expression of 13% of the genes correlated with polygenic scores for 1,263 phenotypes, pinpointing potential drivers for those traits. In summary, this work represents a large eQTL resource, and its results serve as a starting point for in-depth interpretation of complex phenotypes. Analyses of expression profiles from whole blood of 31,684 individuals identify cis-expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) effects for 88% of genes and trans-eQTL effects for 37% of trait-associated variants.
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@article{2021_Võsa,
author = {Urmo Võsa and Annique Claringbould and Harm Jan Westra and Marc Jan Bonder and Patrick Deelen and Biao Zeng and Holger Kirsten and Ashis Saha and Roman Kreuzhuber and Seyhan Yazar and Harm Brugge and Roy Oelen and Dylan H De Vries and Monique G P Van Der Wijst and Silva Kasela and Natalia Pervjakova and Isabel Alves and Marie Julie Favé and Mawusse Agbessi and Mark W Christiansen and Rick Jansen and Ilkka Seppälä and Tong Lin and Alexander Teumer and Katharina Schramm and Gibran Hemani and Joost A M Verlouw and Hanieh Yaghootkar and Reyhan Sönmez Flitman and Andrew A Brown and Viktorija Kukushkina and Anette Kalnapenkis and Sina Rüeger and Eleonora Porcu and Jaanika Kronberg and Johannes Kettunen and Bernett Lee and Futao Zhang and TING QI and Jose Alquicira Hernandez and Wibowo Arindrarto and Frank Beutner and PETER A. C. 'T HOEN and Jenny van Dongen and Morris A Swertz and Marc Jan Bonder and Julia Dmitrieva and Mahmoud Elansary and Benjamin P. Fairfax and M. Georges and others},
title = {Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression},
journal = {Nature Genetics},
year = {2021},
volume = {53},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {sep},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00913-z},
number = {9},
pages = {1300--1310},
doi = {10.1038/s41588-021-00913-z}
}
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Võsa, Urmo, et al. “Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression.” Nature Genetics, vol. 53, no. 9, Sep. 2021, pp. 1300-1310. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00913-z.