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Marta Perez-Alcantara1, Christian Honoré2, Agata Wesolowska-Andersen1, Anna L Gloyn1,3,4, Mark I McCarthy1,3,4, Mattias Hansson5, Nicola L Beer6, Martijn van de Bunt1,3.
Abstract
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Most type 2 diabetes-associated genetic variants identified via genome-wide association studies (GWASs) appear to act via the pancreatic islet. Observed defects in insulin secretion could result from an impact of these variants on islet development and/or the function of mature islets. Most functional studies have focused on the latter, given limitations regarding access to human fetal islet tissue. Capitalising upon advances in in vitro differentiation, we characterised the transcriptomes of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines differentiated along the pancreatic endocrine lineage, and explored the contribution of altered islet development to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes.Entities:
Keywords: Diabetes; Endocrine pancreas; In vitro differentiation; Islets; Stem cells; Transcriptome
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29675560 PMCID: PMC6354904 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-018-4612-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diabetologia ISSN: 0012-186X Impact factor: 10.122
Fig. 1Principal component analysis of whole-transcriptome data derived from multiple differentiated human islet-like cell models. Data include all stages from our current differentiation protocol (Current), the most mature stage of a previously published differentiation protocol (Previous) [10], and cells derived via in vivo maturation by Xie and colleagues (Xie) [14]. The first two principal components (PC1, PC2) have been calculated using normalised gene counts for all stages of all three studies and corrected for batch effects. DE, definitive endoderm; GT, primitive gut tube; PF, posterior foregut; PE, pancreatic endoderm; EP, endocrine precursor; EN, endocrine-like cells; BLC, beta-like cells. Stages shown from the current study are iPSC, DE, GT, PF, PE, EP, EN and BLC. The stage shown from the previously reported study [10] is EN. The stage shown from Xie and colleagues’ in vivo maturation study [14] is ‘Matured in vivo’
Fig. 2Both developing and mature islet-like cells are enriched for genes within type 2 diabetes-associated loci. (a) Results from the GSEA. SNPs from the type 2 diabetes GWAS meta-analysis from DIAGRAM (96 loci) [24] were mapped to genes, and type 2 diabetes association scores were calculated for each gene using MAGENTA. Two complementary analyses were performed: enrichment of all genes ordered by their MAGENTA scores in sets of differentially expressed genes for each stage (Ranked T2D GWAS list), and enrichment of differentially expressed genes per stage (ordered by q value) in significant (p < 0.05 by MAGENTA) gene scores (ranked differentially expressed genes). The y-axis represents the results of the GSEA in FDR-adjusted p values (q values, −log10). The horizontal grey dashed line marks the 5% significance threshold. (b) Results for the hypergeometric enrichment analysis. Enrichment was tested for all differentially expressed genes per stage in the 96 type 2 diabetes credible intervals [T2D (all)] from DIAGRAM [24] and the 16 fasting glucose credible intervals (Fasting glucose) from ENGAGE [25] (ESM Table 10), and for all differentially expressed genes in only physiological type 2 diabetes loci [T2D (beta cell)] (ESM Table 11). We consider beta cell function loci as 15 loci influencing hyperglycaemia, beta cell function and insulin processing [26, 27]. The y-axis represents the results of the hypergeometric test in permuted p values (−log10). The horizontal grey dashed line marks the 5% significance threshold. T2D, type 2 diabetes; DE, definitive endoderm; GT, primitive gut tube; PF, posterior foregut; PE, pancreatic endoderm; EP, endocrine precursor; EN, endocrine-like cells; BLC, beta-like cells