Functional and genetic analysis of haplotypic sequence variation at the nicastrin genomic locus

Hamilton, Gillian, Killick, Richard, Lambert, Jean-Charles, Amouyel, Philippe, Carrasquillo, Minerva M., Pankratz, V. Shane, Graff-Radford, Neill R., Dickson, Dennis W., Petersen, Ronald C., Younkin, Steven G., Powell, John F., Wade-Martins, Richard, Chapman, Jade, Denning, Nicola, Escott-Price, Valentina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1784-5483, Gerrish, Amy, Hamshere, Marian Lindsay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8990-0958, Harold, Denise, Hollingworth, Paul, Holmans, Peter Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0870-9412, O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379, Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862, Pahwa, Jaspreet, Russo, Giancarlo, Sims, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3885-1199, Thomas, Charlene and Williams, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-0259 2012. Functional and genetic analysis of haplotypic sequence variation at the nicastrin genomic locus. Neurobiology of Aging 33 (8) , 1848.e1. 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.02.005

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Abstract

Nicastrin (NCSTN) is a component of the γ-secretase complex and therefore potentially a candidate risk gene for Alzheimer's disease. Here, we have developed a novel functional genomics methodology to express common locus haplotypes to assess functional differences. DNA recombination was used to engineer 5 bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) to each express a different haplotype of the NCSTN locus. Each NCSTN-BAC was delivered to knockout nicastrin (Ncstn(-/-)) cells and clonal NCSTN-BAC(+)/Ncstn(-/-) cell lines were created for functional analyses. We showed that all NCSTN-BAC haplotypes expressed nicastrin protein and rescued γ-secretase activity and amyloid beta (Aβ) production in NCSTN-BAC(+)/Ncstn(-/-) lines. We then showed that genetic variation at the NCSTN locus affected alternative splicing in human postmortem brain tissue. However, there was no robust functional difference between clonal cell lines rescued by each of the 5 different haplotypes. Finally, there was no statistically significant association of NCSTN with disease risk in the 4 cohorts. We therefore conclude that it is unlikely that common variation at the NCSTN locus is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Additional Information:	Chapman; Jade, Denning (Jones); Nicola, Escott-Price; Valentina, Gerrish; Amy, Hamshere; Marian, Harold; Denise, Hollingworth; Paul, Holmans; Peter, O'Donovan; Michael, Owen; Michael, Pahwa; Jaspreet, Russo; Giancarlo, Sims; Rebecca, Thomas; Charlene, Williams; Julie are collaborators on this article.
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0197-4580
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2023 01:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79884

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