Just a SNP away: The future of in vivo massively parallel reporter assay
The human genome is largely noncoding, yet the field is still grasping to understand how noncoding variants impact transcription and contribute to disease etiology. The massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) has been employed to characterize the function of noncoding variants at unprecedented scal...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Cell insight 2025-02, Vol.4 (1), p.100214, Article 100214 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The human genome is largely noncoding, yet the field is still grasping to understand how noncoding variants impact transcription and contribute to disease etiology. The massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) has been employed to characterize the function of noncoding variants at unprecedented scales, but its application has been largely limited by the in vitro context. The field will benefit from establishing a systemic platform to study noncoding variant function across multiple tissue types under physiologically relevant conditions. However, to date, MPRA has been applied to only a handful of in vivo conditions. Given the complexity of the central nervous system and its widespread interactions with all other organ systems, our understanding of neuropsychiatric disorder-associated noncoding variants would be greatly advanced by studying their functional impact in the intact brain. In this review, we discuss the importance, technical considerations, and future applications of implementing MPRA in the in vivo space with the focus on neuropsychiatric disorders. |
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ISSN: | 2772-8927 2772-8927 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cellin.2024.100214 |