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Series GSE78246 Query DataSets for GSE78246
Status Public on Feb 25, 2016
Title Quantitative Trait Locus and Brain Expression of HLA-DPA1 And Shared Immune Alterations in Psychiatric Disorders
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary Genome wide association studies of schizophrenia encompassing the major histocompatibility locus (MHC) were highly significant following genome wide correction. This broad region implicates many genes including the MHC complex class II. Within this interval we examined the expression of two MHC II genes (HLA-DPA1 and HLA-DRB1) in brain from individual subjects with schizophrenia (SZ), bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and controls by differential gene expression methods. A third MHC II mRNA, CD74, was studied outside of the MHC II locus, as it interacts within the same immune complex. HLA-DPA1 and CD74 were both reduced in hippocampus, amygdala, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex regions in SZ and BD compared to controls by specific qPCR assay. We found several novel HLA-DPA1 mRNA variants spanning HLA-DPA1 exons 2-3-4 as suggested by an exon microarray study. The intronic rs9277341 SNP was a significant cis expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) that was associated with the total expression of HLA-DPA1 in five brain regions. A biomarker study of MHC II mRNAs was conducted in SZ, BD, MDD, and control lymphoblastic cell lines (LCL) by qPCR assay of 87 subjects. There was significantly decreased expression of HLA-DPA1 and CD74 in BD, and trends for reductions in SZ in LCLs. The discovery of multiple splicing variants in brain for HLA-DPA1 is important as the HLA-DPA1 gene is highly conserved, there are no reported splicing variants, and the functions in brain are unknown. Future work on the function and localization of MHC Class II proteins in brain will help to understand the role of alterations in neuropsychiatric disorders. The HLA-DPA1 eQTL is located within a large linkage disequilibrium block that has an irrefutable association with schizophrenia. Future tests in a larger cohort are needed to determine the significance of this eQTL association with schizophrenia. Our findings support the long held hypothesis that alterations in immune function are associated with the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders.
 
Overall design There were 20 anterior cingulate postmortem brain samples that were extracted for total RNA, and analyzed using Affymetrix Exon Array (bipolar disorder subjects n = 9, controls n = 11).
 
Contributor(s) Vawter MP, Rollins BL
Citation(s) 26998349
Submission date Feb 24, 2016
Last update date Feb 18, 2019
Contact name Marquis Vawter
E-mail(s) mvawter@uci.edu
Phone 949-824-9014
Organization name University of California, Irvine
Department Psychiatry
Lab Functional Genomics
Street address 837 Health Science Rd
City Irvine
State/province CA
ZIP/Postal code 92697-4260
Country USA
 
Platforms (2)
GPL5175 [HuEx-1_0-st] Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [transcript (gene) version]
GPL5188 [HuEx-1_0-st] Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [probe set (exon) version]
Samples (40)
GSM2070183 subject_1 [gene-level]
GSM2070184 subject_2 [gene-level]
GSM2070185 subject_3 [gene-level]
Relations
BioProject PRJNA313026

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE78246_1834_C_M.CEL.gz 23.3 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_2169_C_M.CEL.gz 21.0 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_2292_C_M.CEL.gz 21.6 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_2311_BP_M.CEL.gz 22.0 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_2466_BP_M.CEL.gz 22.0 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_2566_BP_F.CEL.gz 23.4 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_2805_C_M.CEL.gz 23.1 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3079_BP_M.CEL.gz 21.2 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3085_BP_M.CEL.gz 20.6 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3433_C_M.CEL.gz 21.2 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3516_C_M.CEL.gz 22.2 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3588_C_M.CEL.gz 23.1 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3618_BP_F.CEL.gz 21.6 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3711_BP_F.CEL.gz 22.6 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3772_BP_M.CEL.gz 23.1 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3850_C_M.CEL.gz 23.1 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3878_C_M.CEL.gz 23.8 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_3896_C_F.CEL.gz 21.6 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_4063_C_M.CEL.gz 23.3 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_4087_BP_F.CEL.gz 22.8 Mb (ftp)(http) CEL
GSE78246_HuEx-1_0-st-v2.r2-SNPs-Excluded.pgf.gz 94.8 Mb (ftp)(http) PGF
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