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Pàgina inicial > Articles > Articles publicats > Epigenomics and transcriptomics of systemic sclerosis CD4+ T cells reveal long-range dysregulation of key inflammatory pathways mediated by disease-associated susceptibility loci |
Data: | 2020 |
Resum: | Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a genetically complex autoimmune disease mediated by the interplay between genetic and epigenetic factors in a multitude of immune cells, with CD4+ T lymphocytes as one of the principle drivers of pathogenesis. Methods: DNA samples exacted from CD4+ T cells of 48 SSc patients and 16 healthy controls were hybridized on MethylationEPIC BeadChip array. In parallel, gene expression was interrogated by hybridizing total RNA on Clariom™ S array. Downstream bioinformatics analyses were performed to identify correlating differentially methylated CpG positions (DMPs) and differentially expressed genes (DEGs), which were then confirmed utilizing previously published promoter capture Hi-C (PCHi-C) data. Results: We identified 9112 and 3929 DMPs and DEGs, respectively. These DMPs and DEGs are enriched in functional categories related to inflammation and T cell biology. Furthermore, correlation analysis identified 17,500 possible DMP-DEG interaction pairs within a window of 5 Mb, and utilizing PCHi-C data, we observed that 212 CD4+ T cell-specific pairs of DMP-DEG also formed part of three-dimensional promoter-enhancer networks, potentially involving CTCF. Finally, combining PCHi-C data with SSc GWAS data, we identified four important SSc-associated susceptibility loci, TNIP1 (rs3792783), GSDMB (rs9303277), IL12RB1 (rs2305743), and CSK (rs1378942), that could potentially interact with DMP-DEG pairs cg17239269-ANXA6, cg19458020-CCR7, cg10808810-JUND, and cg11062629-ULK3, respectively. Conclusion: Our study unveils a potential link between genetic, epigenetic, and transcriptional deregulation in CD4+ T cells of SSc patients, providing a novel integrated view of molecular components driving SSc pathogenesis. |
Ajuts: | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación SAF2017-88086-R Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RT2018-101332-B-I00 Instituto de Salud Carlos III RD16-0012-0013 |
Nota: | Altres ajuts: We thank CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya and the Josep Carreras Foundation for institutional support. |
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Llengua: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Matèria: | CTCF ; DNA methylation ; Epigenetics ; Genetic susceptibility variants ; Hi-C ; Long-distance regulation ; Systemic sclerosis |
Publicat a: | Genome Medicine, Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (25 2020) , p. 81, ISSN 1756-994X |
17 p, 3.1 MB |