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ArticleeLife2021

Divergence in alternative polyadenylation contributes to gene regulatory differences between humans and chimpanzees.

Briana E Mittleman, Sebastian Pott, Shane Warland, Kenneth Barr, Claudia Cuevas, Yoav Gilad

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Briana E MittlemanGenetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4979-4652
Sebastian PottDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4118-6150
Shane WarlandSection of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Kenneth BarrSection of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0769-7053
Claudia CuevasSection of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Yoav GiladDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8284-8926
University of Chicago · US

Funding

Development of iPSCs for comparative genomics in primatesR01HG010772 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Yoav Gilad · 2019 to 2026
$4.8M
Characterizing and Understanding Variation in Gene Regulatory Mechanisms Within and Between Species'R35GM131726 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Yoav Gilad · 2019 to 2026
$3.7M
Training of Junior Faculty for Careers in Omics of Lung DiseasesK12HL119995 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI GOZAL, DAVID, GROSSMAN, ROBERT L. · 2013 to 2017
$1.3M
Mapping alternative polyadenylation QTLs in induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytesF31HL149259 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MITTLEMAN, BRIANA ERIN · 2019 to 2019
$45k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010772NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL149259NHLBI NIH HHS K12 HL119995NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131726NIH HHS R35GM13172NIH HHS T32GM09197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While comparative functional genomic studies have shown that inter-species differences in gene expression can be explained by corresponding inter-species differences in genetic and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, co-transcriptional mechanisms, such as alternative polyadenylation (APA), have received little attention. We characterized APA in lymphoblastoid cell lines from six humans and six chimpanzees by identifying and estimating the usage for 44,432 polyadenylation sites (PAS) in 9518 genes. Although APA is largely conserved, 1705 genes showed significantly different PAS usage (FDR 0.05) between species. Genes with divergent APA also tend to be differentially expressed, are enriched among genes showing differences in protein translation, and can explain a subset of observed inter-species protein expression differences that do not differ at the transcript level. Finally, we found that genes with a dominant PAS, which is used more often than other PAS, are particularly enriched for differentially expressed genes.

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Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsCell LineEpigenesis, GeneticHumansPan troglodytesPolyadenylationalternative polyadenylationcomparativegene expressiongeneticsgenomicshumanP. troglodytestranslation

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PMID33595436
PMCPMC7954529
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