Proximal and distal effects of genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis on the T cell epigenome

Tina Roostaei; Hans Ulrich Klein; Yiyi Ma; Daniel Felsky; Pia Kivisäkk; Sarah M. Connor; Alexandra Kroshilina; Christina Yung; Belinda J. Kaskow; Xiaorong Shao; Brooke Rhead; José M. Ordovás; Devin M. Absher; Donna K. Arnett; Jia Liu; Nikolaos Patsopoulos; Lisa F. Barcellos; Howard L. Weiner; Philip L. De Jager

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Proximal and distal effects of genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis on the T cell epigenome

Tina Roostaei, Hans Ulrich Klein, Yiyi Ma, Daniel Felsky, Pia Kivisäkk, Sarah M. Connor, Alexandra Kroshilina, Christina Yung, Belinda J. Kaskow, Xiaorong Shao, Brooke Rhead, José M. Ordovás, Devin M. Absher, Donna K. Arnett, Jia Liu, Nikolaos Patsopoulos, Lisa F. Barcellos, Howard L. Weiner, Philip L. De Jager

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Identifying the effects of genetic variation on the epigenome in disease-relevant cell types can help advance our understanding of the first molecular contributions of genetic susceptibility to disease onset. Here, we establish a genome-wide map of DNA methylation quantitative trait loci in CD4⁺ T-cells isolated from multiple sclerosis patients. Utilizing this map in a colocalization analysis, we identify 19 loci where the same haplotype drives both multiple sclerosis susceptibility and local DNA methylation. We also identify two distant methylation effects of multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci: a chromosome 16 locus affects PRDM8 methylation (a chromosome 4 region not previously associated with multiple sclerosis), and the aggregate effect of multiple sclerosis-associated variants in the major histocompatibility complex influences DNA methylation near PRKCA (chromosome 17). Overall, we present a new resource for a key cell type in inflammatory disease research and uncover new gene targets for the study of predisposition to multiple sclerosis.

Original language	English
Article number	7078
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27427-w
State	Published - Dec 2021

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We are grateful to all the participants for their invaluable contribution to the study. We also thank Albert Boulanger for helping with data organization for the purpose of sharing the summary statistics. The study was funded by a grant to PLD from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

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Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

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General Chemistry
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy

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Roostaei, T., Klein, H. U., Ma, Y., Felsky, D., Kivisäkk, P., Connor, S. M., Kroshilina, A., Yung, C., Kaskow, B. J., Shao, X., Rhead, B., Ordovás, J. M., Absher, D. M., Arnett, D. K., Liu, J., Patsopoulos, N., Barcellos, L. F., Weiner, H. L., & De Jager, P. L. (2021). Proximal and distal effects of genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis on the T cell epigenome. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 7078. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27427-w

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