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An integrated multi-omics analysis of sleep-disordered breathing traits implicates P2XR4 purinergic signaling

  • Nuzulul Kurniansyah
  • , Danielle A. Wallace
  • , Ying Zhang
  • , Bing Yu
  • , Brian Cade
  • , Heming Wang
  • , Heather M. Ochs-Balcom
  • , Alexander P. Reiner
  • , Alberto R. Ramos
  • , Joshua D. Smith
  • , Jianwen Cai
  • , Martha Daviglus
  • , Phyllis C. Zee
  • , Robert Kaplan
  • , Charles Kooperberg
  • , Stephen S. Rich
  • , Jerome I. Rotter
  • , Sina A. Gharib
  • , Susan Redline
  • , Tamar Sofer
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Harvard University
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • University of Washington
  • University of Miami
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Northwestern University
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • University of Virginia
  • The Lundquist Institute

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Abstract

Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is a common disease associated with increased risk for cardiometabolic, cardiovascular, and cognitive diseases. How SDB affects the molecular environment is still poorly understood. We study the association of three SDB measures with gene expression measured using RNA-seq in multiple blood tissues from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. We develop genetic instrumental variables for the associated transcripts as polygenic risk scores (tPRS), then generalize and validate the tPRS in the Women’s Health Initiative. We measure the associations of the validated tPRS with SDB and serum metabolites in Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Here we find differential gene expression by blood cell type in relation to SDB traits and link P2XR4 expression to average oxyhemoglobin saturation during sleep and butyrylcarnitine (C4) levels. These findings can be used to develop interventions to alleviate the effect of SDB on the human molecular environment.

Original languageEnglish
Article number125
JournalCommunications Biology
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2023

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