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Analysis of zebrafish periderm enhancers facilitates identification of a regulatory variant near human KRT8/18

  1. Huan Liu  Is a corresponding author
  2. Kaylia Duncan
  3. Annika Helverson
  4. Priyanka Kumari
  5. Camille Mumm
  6. Yao Xiao
  7. Jenna Colavincenzo Carlson
  8. Fabrice Darbellay
  9. Axel Visel
  10. Elizabeth Leslie
  11. Patrick Breheny
  12. Albert J Erives
  13. Robert A Cornell  Is a corresponding author
  1. Wuhan University, China
  2. University of Iowa, United States
  3. University of Pittsburgh, United States
  4. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, United States
  5. DOE Joint Genome Institute, United States
  6. Emory University School of Medicine, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51325
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  1. Huan Liu
  2. Kaylia Duncan
  3. Annika Helverson
  4. Priyanka Kumari
  5. Camille Mumm
  6. Yao Xiao
  7. Jenna Colavincenzo Carlson
  8. Fabrice Darbellay
  9. Axel Visel
  10. Elizabeth Leslie
  11. Patrick Breheny
  12. Albert J Erives
  13. Robert A Cornell
(2020)
Analysis of zebrafish periderm enhancers facilitates identification of a regulatory variant near human KRT8/18
eLife 9:e51325.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51325
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Abstract

Genome wide association studies for non-syndromic orofacial cleft (OFC) have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at loci where the presumed risk-relevant gene is expressed in oral periderm. The functional subsets of such SNPs are difficult to predict because the sequence underpinnings of periderm enhancers are unknown. We applied ATAC-seq to models of human palate periderm, including zebrafish periderm, mouse embryonic palate epithelia, and a human oral epithelium cell line, and to complementary mesenchymal cell types. We identified sets of enhancers specific to the epithelial cells and trained gapped-kmer support-vector-machine classifiers on these sets. We used the classifiers to predict the effect of 14 OFC-associated SNPs at 12q13 near KRT18. All the classifiers picked the same SNP as having the strongest effect, but the significance was highest with the classifier trained on zebrafish periderm. Reporter and deletion analyses support this SNP as lying within a periderm enhancer regulating KRT18/KRT8 expression.

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1 Raw and processed sequencing data were deposited in GEO repository (GSE140241, GSE139945 and GSE139809).2 Custom scripts and piplines we deployed for sequencing data analysis and visualization are available at https://github.com/Badgerliu/periderm_ATACSeq.3 All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. Source data files have been provided for Figures.

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  1. Huan Liu

    State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) and Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedicine of Ministry of Education (KLOBM), School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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  2. Kaylia Duncan

    College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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  3. Annika Helverson

    College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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  4. Priyanka Kumari

    College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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  5. Camille Mumm

    College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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  6. Yao Xiao

    State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) and Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedicine of Ministry of Education (KLOBM), School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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  7. Jenna Colavincenzo Carlson

    Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
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  8. Fabrice Darbellay

    Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, United States
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  9. Axel Visel

    DOE Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, United States
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  10. Elizabeth Leslie

    Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, United States
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  11. Patrick Breheny

    Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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  12. Albert J Erives

    Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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  13. Robert A Cornell

    College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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    robert-cornell@uiowa.edu
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (DE023575)

  • Robert A Cornell

National Institute for Health Research (DE027362)

  • Robert A Cornell

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE025060)

  • Elizabeth Leslie

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE024427)

  • Axel Visel

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE028599)

  • Axel Visel

National Natural Science Foundation of China (81771057)

  • Huan Liu

National Natural Science Foundation of China (81400477)

  • Huan Liu

Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2017CFB515)

  • Huan Liu

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Marianne E Bronner, California Institute of Technology, United States

Ethics

Animal experimentation: D. rerio were maintained in the University of Iowa Animal Care Facility according to a standard protocol (protocol no. 6011616). All mouse experiments were performed in accordance with approval of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at the School and Hospital of Stomatology of Wuhan University (protocol no. 00271454).Mouse experiments for LacZ reporter transgenic animal work performed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) were reviewed and approved by the LBNL Animal Welfare and Research Committee.

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  1. Received: August 25, 2019
  2. Accepted: February 6, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: February 7, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: February 24, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Liu et al.

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  1. Huan Liu
  2. Kaylia Duncan
  3. Annika Helverson
  4. Priyanka Kumari
  5. Camille Mumm
  6. Yao Xiao
  7. Jenna Colavincenzo Carlson
  8. Fabrice Darbellay
  9. Axel Visel
  10. Elizabeth Leslie
  11. Patrick Breheny
  12. Albert J Erives
  13. Robert A Cornell
(2020)
Analysis of zebrafish periderm enhancers facilitates identification of a regulatory variant near human KRT8/18
eLife 9:e51325.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51325

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