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Series GSE40181 Query DataSets for GSE40181
Status Public on Dec 03, 2018
Title Human Sperm Epigenomes and Transcriptomes Reveal Novel Features of Enhancers, Sex Chromosomes, piRNAs, Gametogenesis, and Inherited Small RNAs (RNA-Seq)
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary To better understand the paternally inherited epigenome and transcriptome, we profiled multiple histone modifications, histone H3.3 variant, cytosine DNA methylation at base-pair resolution, and small RNA transcriptomes. We report new and surprising features of enhancers, pluripotency factor targets, spermiogenesis genes, piRNA clusters, CpG islands, partially methylated domains, imprinted loci, repetitive elements and sex chromosomes. First, we find that enhancers for embryonic transcription factors bear H3K27me3, but low H3K14ac and DNA methylation -- consistent with poising for future activation -- whereas enhancers near genes active in gametogenesis have high H3K27ac/H3K14ac, consistent with past activation. Second, binding site regions (in ES cells) for the pluripotency factors SOX2 and NANOG are DNA methylated in sperm, suggesting a need for zygotic demethylation/reprogramming. Unexpectedly, genes for spermiogenesis (but not spermatogenesis), and almost half of piRNA cluster promoters, bear both H3K4me3 and DNA methylation, a co-incidence not previously observed in mammals. Furthermore, we find major assymetries in H3.3 and H3K9me3 density between the X and Y chromosomes after MSCI. Lastly, deep sequencing reveals >10-fold increase in the known repertoire of retained/inherited miRNAs and piRNAs than previous estimates. Thus, the paternal epigenome contributes a mosaic of epigenetic regions that reflect past gametogenesis or poising for subsequent embryonic developmental regulation -- and a complex repertoire of small RNAs.
 
Overall design Total RNA was extracted from the sperm of two independent fertile donors and subjected to directional RNA-seq using both small RNA-seq and mRNA-seq Illumina protocols.
 
Contributor(s) Hammoud SS, Nix DA, Oler AJ, Carrell D, Cairns BR
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Submission date Aug 16, 2012
Last update date May 15, 2019
Contact name Andrew J Oler
E-mail(s) andrew.oler@nih.gov
Organization name NIAID/NIH
Department Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB)
Lab Computational Biology Section
Street address 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62E
City Bethesda
State/province MD
ZIP/Postal code 20892
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL9115 Illumina Genome Analyzer II (Homo sapiens)
Samples (4)
GSM987942 Sperm Donor1 mRNA-seq
GSM987943 Sperm Donor2 mRNA-seq
GSM987944 Sperm Donor1 smRNA-seq
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE40196 Human Sperm Epigenomes and Transcriptomes Reveal Novel Features of Enhancers, Sex Chromosomes, piRNAs, Gametogenesis, and Inherited Small RNAs
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BioProject PRJNA173072
SRA SRP014899

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE40181_D1D2_DefinedRegionsScanSeq_refFlat_Results_RPKMgrthn0.4.txt.gz 153.6 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE40181_Donor1_DRSS_miRNA_drssResults.txt.gz 23.1 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE40181_Donor1_DRSS_piRNAs_drssResults.txt.gz 575.3 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE40181_Donor1_DRSS_refseq_drssResults.txt.gz 825.7 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE40181_Donor2_DRSS_miRNAs_drssResults.txt.gz 22.0 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE40181_Donor2_DRSS_piRNAs_drssResults.txt.gz 504.1 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE40181_Donor2_DRSS_refseq_drssResults.txt.gz 810.0 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
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