Dissecting human brain development at high resolution using RNA-seq

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Dissecting human brain development at high resolution using RNA-seq Leonardo Collado-Torres @fellgernon #ENAR2015

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Dissecting human brain development at high resolution using RNA-seq

Leonardo Collado-Torres @fellgernon #ENAR2015

motivating problem: identify and validate regions of the genome that change expression during brain development

Fetal   Infant  

Child   Teen  

Adult   50+  

6 / group, N = 36

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

LIBD data

•  Gender balanced •  Similar other covariates

like RNA Integrity Number (RIN)

RNA-seq reads

Genome (DNA)

RNA transcripts (many possible variants)

Measuring gene expression: RNA-seq

Adapted from @jtleek

coverage vector 2 6 0 11 6

Genome (DNA)

Read coverage

Adapted from @jtleek

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

derfinder: input data n  samples  →  

~348  million  nt  11.24%    

coverage  

Rows with at least 1 sample with coverage > 5

Adapted from @jtleek

derfinder: statistical model (every base)

•  Null model

•  Alternative Model

•  F-statistic

i: base-pair j: sample

derfinder: annotation-agnostic

Collado-Torres et al, bioRxiv, 2015 BrainSpan data

DERs vs null regions by permutation

Compare DERs vs annotation

Collado-Torres et al, bioRxiv, 2015 BrainSpan data

Identifying DERs

Fetal   Infant  

Child   Teen  

Adult   50+  

6 / group, N = 36

Discovery data Null:

Alt:

Models

Cutoff

Details •  Rank DERs by area •  1000 permutations •  Control FWER (≤  5%) by max area

per permutation

Results

63,135 DERs

20.509 Corresponds to p-value 10-08

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

Replicating DERs

Fetal   Infant  

Child   Teen  

Adult   50+  

6 / group, N = 36

Replication data Null:

Alt:

Models

Cutoff

Details Per sample and per DER calculate average expression

Results

50,650 DERs replicated

Single F-statistic per DER p-value < 0.05

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

Widespread differential expression of novel transcriptional activity

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

DERs validate: Cytosolic vs total mRNA fractions

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

CBC:  28  

MD:  24  STR:  28  AMY:  31  HIP:  32  

DFC:  34  

Total N samples: 487

BrainSpan data

Coverage  Data  from  BrainSpan:  hOp://download.alleninsRtute.org/brainspan/MRF_BigWig_Gencode_v10/  

VFC:  30   MFC:  32   OFC:  30   M1C:  25  

S1C:  26   IPC:  33   A1C:  30   STC:  35   ITC:  33  

V1C:  33  

Age-associated DERs lack regional specificity in the human brain

BrainSpan data Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

Age-associated DERs are conserved in the developing mouse cortex

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

Fetal:  E17     Adult:  C57BL/6  Data  from  Dillman  2013  

n= 4 n = 3

Prop

orRo

n  of  Cells  

Expression changes across development may represent a changing neuronal phenotype

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

Estimation method: Houseman et al, BMC Bioinformatics, 2012

Collado-Torres et al, in prep

regionReport

LIBD Human DLPFC Development

•  UCSC “Track Hub”

Jaffe et al, Nat. Neuroscience, 2014

motivating problem: identify and validate regions of the genome that change expression during brain development 1. derfinder permits discovery of novel

expressed regions 2. we identified & validated gene

expression changes the developing brain 3. we have developed tools for

reproducible/shareable reporting

Acknowledgements

Leek Group Jeffrey Leek Alyssa Frazee Hopkins Sarven Sabunciyan Ben Langmead

LIBD Andrew Jaffe Jooheon Shin Nikolay Ivanov Amy Deep Ran Tao Yankai Jia Thomas Hyde Joel Kleinman Daniel Weinberger

Harvard Rafael Irizarry Michael Love Funding NIH LIBD CONACyT México

References + software + code

•  Collado-Torres L, et al. derfinder: Software for annotation-agnostic RNA-seq differential expression analysis. bioRxiv 015370 (2015). doi:10.1101/015370 –  http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/derfinder.html –  http://lcolladotor.github.io/derSoftware/

•  Jaffe AE, Shin J, Collado-Torres L, Leek JT, et al. Developmental regulation of

human cortex transcription and its clinical relevance at single base resolution. Nat. Neurosci. (2014) doi:10.1038/nn.3898. –  https://github.com/lcolladotor/libd_n36 –  https://github.com/lcolladotor/enrichedRanges

•  http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/regionReport.html •  http://lcolladotor.github.io/regionReportSupp/