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Huang KL, Marcora E, Pimenova AA, Di Narzo AF, Kapoor M, Jin SC, Harari O, Bertelsen S, Fairfax BP, Czajkowski J, Chouraki V, Grenier-Boley B, Bellenguez C, Deming Y, McKenzie A, Raj T, Renton AE, Budde J, Smith A, Fitzpatrick A, Bis JC, DeStefano A, Adams HHH, Ikram MA, van der Lee S, Del-Aguila JL, Fernandez MV, Ibañez L, Sims R, Escott-Price V, Mayeux R, Haines JL, Farrer LA, Pericak-Vance MA, Lambert JC, van Duijn C, Launer L, Seshadri S, Williams J, Amouyel P, Schellenberg GD, Zhang B, Borecki I, Kauwe JSK, Cruchaga C, Hao K, Goate AM. A common haplotype lowers PU.1 expression in myeloid cells and delays onset of Alzheimer's disease. Nat Neurosci 2017; 20:1052-1061. [PMID: 28628103 PMCID: PMC5759334 DOI: 10.1038/nn.4587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
A genome-wide survival analysis of 14,406 Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases and 25,849 controls identified eight previously reported AD risk loci and 14 novel loci associated with age at onset. Linkage disequilibrium score regression of 220 cell types implicated the regulation of myeloid gene expression in AD risk. The minor allele of rs1057233 (G), within the previously reported CELF1 AD risk locus, showed association with delayed AD onset and lower expression of SPI1 in monocytes and macrophages. SPI1 encodes PU.1, a transcription factor critical for myeloid cell development and function. AD heritability was enriched within the PU.1 cistrome, implicating a myeloid PU.1 target gene network in AD. Finally, experimentally altered PU.1 levels affected the expression of mouse orthologs of many AD risk genes and the phagocytic activity of mouse microglial cells. Our results suggest that lower SPI1 expression reduces AD risk by regulating myeloid gene expression and cell function.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kuan-lin Huang
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
- Department of McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in
St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA
| | - Edoardo Marcora
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease,
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA
| | - Anna A Pimenova
- Department of Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease,
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA
| | - Antonio F Di Narzo
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Manav Kapoor
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease,
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA
| | - Sheng Chih Jin
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New
Haven, CT, USA
| | - Oscar Harari
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
| | - Sarah Bertelsen
- Department of Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease,
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA
| | - Benjamin P Fairfax
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of
Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - Jake Czajkowski
- Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
| | - Vincent Chouraki
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine,
Boston, MA, USA
| | - Benjamin Grenier-Boley
- Inserm, U1167, RID-AGE –Risk factors and molecular
determinants of aging-related diseases, F-59000 Lille, France
- Univ. Lille - Excellence laboratory Labex DISTALZ, F-59000 Lille,
France
- Institut Pasteur de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
| | - Céline Bellenguez
- Inserm, U1167, RID-AGE –Risk factors and molecular
determinants of aging-related diseases, F-59000 Lille, France
- Univ. Lille - Excellence laboratory Labex DISTALZ, F-59000 Lille,
France
- Institut Pasteur de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
| | - Yuetiva Deming
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
| | - Andrew McKenzie
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Towfique Raj
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease,
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA
| | - Alan E Renton
- Department of Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease,
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA
| | - John Budde
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
| | | | - Annette Fitzpatrick
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington, USA
| | - Joshua C Bis
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington, USA
| | - Anita DeStefano
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public
Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Hieab HH Adams
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - M Arfan Ikram
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Sven van der Lee
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jorge L. Del-Aguila
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
| | | | - Laura Ibañez
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
| | | | | | - Rebecca Sims
- Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Medical Research
Council (MRC) Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University,
Cardiff, UK
| | - Valentina Escott-Price
- Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Medical Research
Council (MRC) Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University,
Cardiff, UK
| | - Richard Mayeux
- Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain,
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, NY,
USA
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY,
USA
| | - Jonathan L Haines
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University
School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Lindsay A Farrer
- Institut Pasteur de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public
Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), Boston University
School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public
Health, Boston, MA, USA
- The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of
Miami, Miami, FL, USA
| | - Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
- The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of
Miami, Miami, FL, USA
- Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of
Miami, Miami, FL, USA
| | - Jean Charles Lambert
- Inserm, U1167, RID-AGE –Risk factors and molecular
determinants of aging-related diseases, F-59000 Lille, France
- Univ. Lille - Excellence laboratory Labex DISTALZ, F-59000 Lille,
France
- Institut Pasteur de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
| | - Cornelia van Duijn
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Lenore Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National
Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Sudha Seshadri
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine,
Boston, MA, USA
| | - Julie Williams
- Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Medical Research
Council (MRC) Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University,
Cardiff, UK
| | - Philippe Amouyel
- Inserm, U1167, RID-AGE –Risk factors and molecular
determinants of aging-related diseases, F-59000 Lille, France
- Univ. Lille - Excellence laboratory Labex DISTALZ, F-59000 Lille,
France
- Institut Pasteur de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, U1167, F-59000 Lille,
France
| | - Gerard D Schellenberg
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Bin Zhang
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | | | - John S K Kauwe
- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah,
USA
| | - Carlos Cruchaga
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint
Louis, MO, USA
| | - Ke Hao
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Alison M Goate
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease,
Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA
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