Chapter title |
Systems Genetics Analysis to Identify the Genetic Modulation of a Glaucoma-Associated Gene
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Chapter number | 18 |
Book title |
Systems Genetics
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6427-7_18 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6425-3, 978-1-4939-6427-7
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Authors |
Sumana R. Chintalapudi, Monica M. Jablonski |
Editors |
Klaus Schughart, Robert W. Williams |
Abstract |
Loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) is one of the hallmarks of retinal neurodegenerative diseases, glaucoma being one of the most common. Recently, γ-synuclein (SNCG) was shown to be highly expressed in the somas and axons of RGCs. In various mouse models of glaucoma, downregulation of Sncg gene expression correlates with RGC loss. To investigate the regulation of Sncg in RGCs, we used a systems genetics approach to identify a gene that modulates the expression of Sncg, followed by confirmatory studies in both healthy and diseased retinas. We found that chromosome 1 harbors an eQTL that modulates the expression of Sncg in the mouse retina and identified Pfdn2 as the candidate upstream modulator of Sncg expression. Downregulation of Pfdn2 in enriched RGCs causes a concomitant reduction in Sncg. In this chapter, we describe our strategy and methods for identifying and confirming a genetic modulation of a glaucoma-associated gene. A similar method can be applied to other genes expressed in other tissues. |
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