Journal
HUMAN MUTATION
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 32-41Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22212
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olfactory candidate genes; congenital general anosmia; RNA-seqIntroduction
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- NIH [DC04657, DC006070]
- NIA [K23 AG036762]
- Crown Human Genome Center
- ISF Legacy grant
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [T32GM007754] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [K23AG036762] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS [R01DC005782, R01DC010857, P30DC004657, R01DC006070, R01DC012095] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Genetic variations in olfactory receptors likely contribute to the diversity of odorant-specific sensitivity phenotypes. Our working hypothesis is that genetic variations in auxiliary olfactory genes, including those mediating transduction and sensory neuronal development, may constitute the genetic basis for general olfactory sensitivity (GOS) and congenital general anosmia (CGA). We thus performed a systematic exploration for auxiliary olfactory genes and their documented variation. This included a literature survey, seeking relevant functional in vitro studies, mouse gene knockouts and human disorders with olfactory phenotypes, as well as data mining in published transcriptome and proteome data for genes expressed in olfactory tissues. In addition, we performed next-generation transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) of human olfactory epithelium and mouse olfactory epithelium and bulb, so as to identify sensory-enriched transcripts. Employing a global score system based on attributes of the 11 data sources utilized, we identified a list of 1,680 candidate auxiliary olfactory genes, of which 450 are shortlisted as having higher probability of a functional role. For the top-scoring 136 genes, we identified genomic variants (probably damaging single nucleotide polymorphisms, indels, and copy number deletions) gleaned from public variation repositories. This database of genes and their variants should assist in rationalizing the great interindividual variation in human overall olfactory sensitivity (http://genome.weizmann.ac.il/GOSdb). Hum Mutat 34:32-41, 2013. (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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