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    宋晓元

    • 教授 博士生导师 硕士生导师
    • 教师英文名称:Xiaoyuan Song
    • 教师拼音名称:songxiaoyuan
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    • 学历:博士研究生毕业
    • 办公地点:中国科学技术大学西校区科技东楼915
    • 学位:博士
    • 毕业院校:美国罗彻斯特大学
    • 学科:生物学
    • 2022-10-01曾获荣誉当选:“典赞 2022科普安徽”科普活动“年度科普作品”
    • 2021-05-01曾获荣誉当选:安徽省优秀科普作品一等奖
    • 2019-09-16曾获荣誉当选:王宽诚育才奖

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    9p21 DNA variants associated with coronary artery disease impair interferon-γ signalling response.

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    DOI码:10.1038/nature09753

    发表刊物:Nature

    摘要:Genome-wide association studies have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the 9p21 gene desert associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and type 2 diabetes. Despite evidence for a role of the associated interval in neighbouring gene regulation, the biological underpinnings of these genetic associations with CAD or type 2 diabetes have not yet been explained. Here we identify 33 enhancers in 9p21; the interval is the second densest gene desert for predicted enhancers and six times denser than the whole genome (P < 6.55 × 10(-33)). The CAD risk alleles of SNPs rs10811656 and rs10757278 are located in one of these enhancers and disrupt a binding site for STAT1. Lymphoblastoid cell lines homozygous for the CAD risk haplotype show no binding of STAT1, and in lymphoblastoid cell lines homozygous for the CAD non-risk haplotype, binding of STAT1 inhibits CDKN2BAS (also known as CDKN2B-AS1) expression, which is reversed by short interfering RNA knockdown of STAT1. Using a new, open-ended approach to detect long-distance interactions, we find that in human vascular endothelial cells the enhancer interval containing the CAD locus physically interacts with the CDKN2A/B locus, the MTAP gene and an interval downstream of IFNA21. In human vascular endothelial cells, interferon-γ activation strongly affects the structure of the chromatin and the transcriptional regulation in the 9p21 locus, including STAT1-binding, long-range enhancer interactions and altered expression of neighbouring genes. Our findings establish a link between CAD genetic susceptibility and the response to inflammatory signalling in a vascular cell type and thus demonstrate the utility of genome-wide association study findings in directing studies to novel genomic loci and biological processes important for disease aetiology.

    卷号:470

    期号:7333

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