期刊
GENETICS
卷 211, 期 2, 页码 757-772出版社
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301833
关键词
Gene expression; Allele-specific expression; Stabilizing selection; Heritability
资金
- Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [HG008140, HG009431]
Gene expression variation is a major contributor to phenotypic variation in human complex traits. Selection on complex traits may therefore be reflected in constraint on gene expression. Here, we explore the effects of stabilizing selection on cis-regulatory genetic variation in humans. We analyze patterns of expression variation at copy number variants and find evidence for selection against large increases in gene expression. Using allele-specific expression (ASE) data, we further show evidence of selection against smaller-effect variants. We estimate that, across all genes, singletons in a sample of 122 individuals have similar to 2.23 greater effects on expression variation than the average variant across allele frequencies. Despite their increased effect size relative to common variants, we estimate that singletons in the sample studied explain, on average, only 5% of the heritability of gene expression from cisregulatory variants. Finally, we show that genes depleted for loss-of-function variants are also depleted for cis-eQTLs and have low levels of allelic imbalance, confirming tighter constraint on the expression levels of these genes. We conclude that constraint on gene expression is present, but has relatively weak effects on most cis-regulatory variants, thus permitting high levels of gene-regulatory genetic variation.
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