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Genetic Architecture Modulates Diet-Induced Hepatic mRNA and miRNA Expression Profiles in Diversity Outbred Mice
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Journal Article
Genetic Architecture Modulates Diet-Induced Hepatic mRNA and miRNA Expression Profiles in Diversity Outbred Mice
2020
Overview
Genetic approaches in model organisms have consistently demonstrated that molecular traits such as gene expression are under genetic regulation, similar to clinical traits. The resulting expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) have revolutionized our understanding of genetic regulation and identified numerous candidate genes for clinically relevant traits. More recently, these analyses have been extended to other molecular traits such as protein abundance, metabolite levels, and miRNA expression. Here, we performed global hepatic eQTL and microRNA expression quantitative trait loci (mirQTL) analysis in a population of Diversity Outbred mice fed two different diets. We identified several key features of eQTL and mirQTL, namely differences in the mode of genetic regulation (
or
) between mRNA and miRNA. Approximately 50% of mirQTL are regulated by a
-acting factor, compared to ∼25% of eQTL. We note differences in the heritability of mRNA and miRNA expression and variance explained by each eQTL or mirQTL. In general,
-acting variants affecting mRNA or miRNA expression explain more phenotypic variance than
-acting variants. Lastly, we investigated the effect of diet on the genetic architecture of eQTL and mirQTL, highlighting the critical effects of environment on both eQTL and mirQTL. Overall, these data underscore the complex genetic regulation of two well-characterized RNA classes (mRNA and miRNA) that have critical roles in the regulation of clinical traits and disease susceptibility.
