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3D chromatin-based variant-to-gene maps across 57 human cell types reveal the cellular and genetic architecture of autoimmune disease susceptibility [captureC]

GSE272080 Homo sapiens (human) Other 6 samples Submitted 2025/11/10 Platform GPL24676

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Organism: Homo sapiens (human)
Samples: 6 samples: 6 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groupsGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get: A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI.
Paper: 3D chromatin-based variant-to-gene maps across 57 human cell types reveal the cellular and genetic architecture of autoimmune disease susceptibilityGenome biology · 2025

Summary (written by the submitters)

The genetic basis for many common autoimmune disorders has been uncovered by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but GWAS do not reveal causal variants, effector genes, or the cell types impacted by disease-associated variation. We have generated 3D genomic datasets consisting of promoter-focused Capture-C, Hi-C, ATAC-seq, and RNA-seq and integrated these data with GWAS of 16 autoimmune traits to physically map disease-associated variants to the genes they likely regulate in over 50 human cell types.

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These 3D maps of gene cis-regulatory architecture are highly powered to identify the cell types most likely impacted by disease-associated genetic variation compared to 1D genomic features, and tend to implicate different effector genes than eQTL approaches in the same cell types. Most of the variants implicated by these cis-regulatory architectures are highly trait-specific, but nearly half of the target genes connected to these variants are shared across multiple autoimmune disorders in multiple cell types, suggesting a high level of genetic diversity and complexity among autoimmune diseases that nonetheless converge at the level of target gene and cell type. Substantial effector gene sharing led to common enrichment of similar biological networks across disease and cell type, however, trait-specific pathways representing potential areas for disease-specific intervention were identified. To test this, we functionally validated squalene synthase, a cholesterol biosynthetic enzyme encoded by the FDFT1 gene implicated in MS and SLE, as a novel immunomodulatory drug target controlling inflammatory cytokine production by human T cells. These data represent a comprehensive resource for basic discovery of gene cis-regulatory mechanisms, and the analyses reported reveal mechanism by which autoimmune-associated variants act to regulate gene expression, function, and pathology across multiple, distinct tissues and cell types.

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3D chromatin-based variant-to-gene maps across 57 human cell types reveal the cellular and genetic architecture of autoimmune disease susceptibility

Trang KB, Sharma P, Cook L et al. · Genome biology 2025 · PMID 41361473 · doi:10.1186/s13059-025-03880-4

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Study design

6 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groups

Any grouping that defines a comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Read from 6 sample titles: 6 distinct titles with little repetition. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study

GSM8392642 Epstein-Barr Virus transformed lymphoblastoid cell line
GSM8392643 T helper 17cells
GSM8392644 T helper 1cells
GSM8392645 T helper 2cells
GSM8392646 T regulatory type 1 cells
GSM8392647 Regulatory T cells

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