Human Molecular Genetics Advance Access published online on September 22, 2004
Human Molecular Genetics, doi:10.1093/hmg/ddh299
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1 Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: odonovanmc{at}cardiff.ac.uk.
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Allelic expression of APOE in human brain: effects of epsilon status and promoter haplotypes
2 Biostatistics Bioinformatics Unit, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN. UK
3 Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY10021. USA
4 Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY10021. USA; Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centres (MIRECC), Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Centre, Bronx, New York, NY10468. USA
5 Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK; Biostatistics Bioinformatics Unit, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN. UK
Abstract 
4 haplotype of APOE is the only undisputed genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). It has been proposed that at least two other polymorphisms in the promoter of the APOE gene (-219G>T, and -491A>T) might also contribute to disease susceptibility, and modulate the impact of structural changes in the ApoE protein, by altering its expression. In order to assess the extent of cis-acting influences on APOE expression in human brain, highly quantitative measures of allele discrimination were applied to cortical RNA from individuals heterozygous for the epsilon alleles. A small, but significant, increase in expression of the 4 allele was observed relative to that of the 3 and 2 alleles (P<0.0001). Similar differences were observed in brain tissue from confirmed LOAD subjects, and between cortical regions BA10 (fronto-polar) and BA20 (inferior temporal). Stratification of 4/3 allelic expression ratios according to heterozygosity for the -219G>T promoter polymorphism revealed significantly lower relative expression of haplotypes containing the -219T allele (P=0.02). Our data indicate that, in human brain, most of the cis-acting variance in APOE expression is accounted for by the 4 haplotype, but there are additional, small, cis-acting influences associated with promoter genotype.
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