Genotype-Phenotype Correlation of T Cell Subtypes Reveals Senescent and Cytotoxic Genes in Alzheimer’s Disease

Abstract Recent studies identifying expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) in immune cells have uncovered important links between disease risk alleles and gene expression trends in monocytes, T cells, and other cell types. However, these studies are generally done with young, healthy subjects, limiting the utility of their findings for age-related conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We have performed RNA sequencing on four T cell subsets in genome-wide genotyped and well-characterized AD subjects and age- and sex-matched healthy controls from the Religious Orders Study/Memory and Aging Project. Correlating gene expression data with AD neuropathological traits, and with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to detect eQTLs, we identified several significant genes involved in T cell senescence and cytotoxicity, consistent with T cell RNA sequencing studies in aged/AD cohorts. We identified unexpected eQTLs previously associated with neuropsychiatric disease traits. Finally, we discovered that pathways related to axon guidance and synaptic function were enriched among trans-eQTLs in coding regions of the genome. Overall, our data sheds more light on the genetic basis behind phenotypic changes in T cells during aging and AD..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 11. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dressman, Dallin [VerfasserIn]
Buttrick, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Cimpean, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Bennett, David [VerfasserIn]
Menon, Vilas [VerfasserIn]
Bradshaw, Elizabeth M. [VerfasserIn]
Vardarajan, Badri [VerfasserIn]
Elyaman, Wassim [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2021.10.19.464914

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XBI032859872