Identification of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes by integrating eight human brain single-cell transcriptomes with genome-wide association studies
To date, several studies have integrated genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data from bulk tissues to identify novel Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetic variants and susceptibility genes. However, there is highly cell-type-specific nature in different bulk eQTL data. Until now, eQTL data from different brain single cells have been reported. Therefore, integrating eQTL data from different brain single-cell types along with AD GWAS data makes biological sense for studying the potential biological explanations of AD. Here, we utilized the summary-data-based Mendelian randomization (SMR) method to integrate AD GWAS data with eQTL data from eight brain single-cell types. We identified a larger number of significant genes compared to previous SMR study based on bulk eQTL. Notably, microglia exhibited the highest number of significant genes. Moreover, we conducted validation-phase SMR analysis, single-cell analysis, protein-protein interaction (PPI), druggability evaluation, functional enrichment analyses, and colocalization analysis of the top 20 SMR significant genes in microglia. We found that most genes passed the validation and were significantly enriched in microglia. PPI analysis uncovered interactions among PICALM, BIN1, RIN3, CD2AP, CASS4, and MS4A6E. Five most significant SMR genes were further validated through colocalization analysis. RIN3 is the only significant gene across all mentioned analyses and is a novel AD susceptibility gene at the genome-wide significance level. Druggability evaluation identified KCNQ3, HLA-DQB1, and RABEP1 as known genes previously targeted for drug development in neurological disorders, suggesting their potential therapeutic relevance in AD.image
基金:
National Key Research and Development Program of China, Grant/Award Number:2023YFC3605200; Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: JQ21022; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/ Award Number: 82071212 and 82471449; Anhui Province Youth Teacher Training Action Discipline (Professional) Leader
Cultivation Project, Grant/Award Number:DTR2024031
第一作者机构:[1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Inst Brain Disorders, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Brain Disorders, Lab Brain Disorders,Minist Sci & Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Inst Brain Disorders, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Brain Disorders, Lab Brain Disorders,Minist Sci & Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China[3]Wannan Med Coll, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol & Biostat, Wuhu, Peoples R China[4]Shengli Oilfield Cent Hosp, Brain Hosp, Dongying, Peoples R China[5]Capital Med Univ, Xuanwu Hosp, Beijing Key Lab Hypoxia Translat Med, Natl Engn Lab Internet Med Diag & Treatment Techno, Beijing, Peoples R China[*1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Inst Brain Disorders, Room 713,Morphol Bldg,10,Xitoutiao,Youan Men Wai, Beijing 100069, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
He Yijie,Zhu Ping,Gao Shan,et al.Identification of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes by integrating eight human brain single-cell transcriptomes with genome-wide association studies[J].JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY.2025,169(1):doi:10.1111/jnc.16276.
APA:
He, Yijie,Zhu, Ping,Gao, Shan,Wu, Shiyang,Li, Xuan...&Liu, Guiyou.(2025).Identification of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes by integrating eight human brain single-cell transcriptomes with genome-wide association studies.JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY,169,(1)
MLA:
He, Yijie,et al."Identification of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes by integrating eight human brain single-cell transcriptomes with genome-wide association studies".JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY 169..1(2025)