The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected millions of people worldwide, igniting an unprecedented effort from the scientific community to understand the biological underpinning of COVID19 pathophysiology. In this Review, we summarize the current state of knowledge of innate and adaptive immune responses elicited by SARS-CoV-2 infection and the immunological pathways that likely contribute to disease severity and death. We also discuss the rationale and clinical outcome of current therapeutic strategies as well as prospective clinical trials to prevent or treat SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Despite progress in defining genetic risk for psychiatric disorders, their molecular mechanisms remain elusive. Addressing this, the PsychENCODE Consortium has generated a comprehensive online resource for the adult brain across 1866 individuals. The PsychENCODE resource contains ~79,000 brain-active enhancers, sets of Hi-C linkages, and topologically associating domains; single-cell expression profiles for many cell types; expression quantitative-trait loci (QTLs); and further QTLs associated with chromatin, splicing, and cell-type proportions. Integration shows that varying cell-type proportions largely account for the cross-population variation in expression (with >88% reconstruction accuracy). It also allows building of a gene regulatory network, linking genome-wide association study variants to genes (e.g., 321 for schizophrenia). We embed this network into an interpretable deep-learning model, which improves disease prediction by ~6-fold versus polygenic risk scores and identifies key genes and pathways in psychiatric disorders.
Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia associated variants, yet how these variants confer liability is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium sequenced RNA from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenia cases (N = 258) and control subjects (N = 279), creating a resource of gene expression and its genetic regulation. Using this resource, ~20% of schizophrenia loci have variants that could contribute to altered gene expression and liability. In five loci, only a single gene was involved: FURIN, TSNARE1, CNTN4, CLCN3, or SNAP91. Altering expression of FURIN, TSNARE1, or CNTN4 changes neurodevelopment in zebrafish; knockdown of FURIN in human neural progenitor cells yields abnormal migration. Of 693 genes showing significant case/control differential expression, their fold changes are ≤ 1.33, and an independent cohort yields similar results. Gene co-expression implicates a network relevant for schizophrenia. Our findings show schizophrenia is polygenic and highlight the utility of this resource for mechanistic interpretations of genetic liability for brain diseases.
73Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia associated variants, yet how these common 74 variants confer risk is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium has sequenced dorsolateral 75 prefrontal cortex RNA from schizophrenia cases (n=258) and control subjects (n=279), creating 76 the largest publicly available resource to date of gene expression and its genetic regulation; ~5 77 times larger than the latest release of GTEx. Using this resource, we find that ~20% of the 78 schizophrenia risk loci have common variants that could explain regulation of brain gene 79 expression. In five loci, these variants modulate expression of a single gene: FURIN, TSNARE1, 80 CNTN4, CLCN3 or SNAP91. Experimentally altered expression of three of them, FURIN, 81 TSNARE1, and CNTN4, perturbs the proliferation and apoptotic index of neural progenitors and 82 leads to neuroanatomical deficits in zebrafish. Furthermore, shRNA mediated knock-down of 83 FURIN in neural progenitor cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells produces 84 abnormal neural migration. Although 4.2% of genes (N = 693) display significant differential 85 expression between cases and controls, 44% show some evidence for differential expression. 86All fold changes are ≤ 1.33, and an independent cohort yields similar differential expression for 87 these 693 genes (r = 0.58). These findings are consistent with schizophrenia being highly 88 polygenic, as has been reported in investigations of common and rare genetic variation. Co-89 expression analyses identify a gene module that shows enrichment for genetic associations and 90 is thus relevant for schizophrenia. Taken together, these results pave the way for mechanistic 91 interpretations of genetic liability for schizophrenia and other brain diseases. 4The human brain is complicated and not well understood. Seemingly straightforward 93 fundamental information such as which genes are expressed therein and what functions they 94 perform are only partially characterized. To overcome these obstacles, we established the 95 CommonMind Consortium (CMC; www.synpase.org/CMC), a public-private partnership to 96 generate functional genomic data in brain samples obtained from autopsies of cases with and 97 without severe psychiatric disorders. The CMC is the largest existing collection of collaborating 98 brain banks and includes over 1,150 samples. A wide spectrum of data is being generated on 99 these samples including regional gene expression, epigenomics (cell-type specific histone 100 modifications and open chromatin), whole genome sequencing, and somatic mosaicism. 101 102 Schizophrenia (SCZ), affecting roughly 0.7% of adults, is a severe psychiatric disorder 103 characterized by abnormalities in thought and cognition (1). Despite a century of evidence 104 establishing its genetic basis, only recently have specific genetic risk factors been conclusively 105identified, including rare copy number variants (2) and >100 common variants (3). However, 106 there is not a one-to-one Mendelian mapping between these SCZ ris...
Highlights d Comprehensive LUAD proteogenomics exposes multi-omic clusters and immune subtypes d Phosphoproteomics identifies candidate ALK-fusion diagnostic markers and targets d Candidate drug targets: PTPN11 (EGFR), SOS1 (KRAS), neutrophil degranulation (STK11) d Phospho and acetyl modifications denote tumor-specific markers and druggable proteins
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