Experiment / E3SHAVH5KEpisomal Plasmid MPRA

ENIGMA cortical-structure variant MPRA in phNPCs, vehicle condition

Massively parallel assessment of gene regulatory activity at human cortical structure associated variants

Both alleles of 9,052 cortical-structure-associated variants from 198 ENIGMA GWAS loci were tested as 150-bp episomal reporter elements in primary human neural progenitor cells under baseline vehicle treatment. The table combines allele-level regulatory activity, vehicle allelic effects, and the published stimulation-versus-vehicle comparisons where available.

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Perturbation & assay details

DMSO vehicle for 48 h after 24 h post-transfection

Both alleles of each selected SNP-centered 150-bp human reference sequence were synthesized and cloned upstream of a minimal promoter driving luciferase followed by a random 20-bp barcode. The pooled plasmid library was transfected into 16 biological replicates of phNPCs; after 24 h, cells received DMSO vehicle and were harvested 48 h later for barcode DNA-seq and RNA-seq. Activity and allelic effects were analyzed with MPRAnalyze v1.9.1; CHIR-treated samples were assayed in parallel for the condition-dependent columns.

Processed data

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Column dictionary · 40 definitions
element_id
Unique dataset/locus/variant/tested-allele identifier generated for this table row.
dataset
Analytical MPRA subset; ENIGMA_GWAS identifies cortical-structure-associated GWAS variants.
locus_id
ENIGMA GWAS locus identifier.
variant_id
dbSNP or source SNP identifier from the supplementary workbook.
tested_allele
Allele represented by the activity row.
reference_allele
Reference allele in the source allelic-effect result, when reported.
alternative_allele
Tested alternative allele in the source allelic-effect result, when reported.
peak_or_locus
ENIGMA GWAS locus label for the tested variant.
chromosome
Chromosome label from the source workbook.
position_reference_genome
1-based variant position in GRCh37/hg19.
condition
MPRA biological condition represented by this experiment.
regulatory_activity_mad_score
Median absolute deviation score for activity relative to negative controls.
regulatory_activity_alpha
MPRAnalyze transcription-rate estimate for the element allele.
regulatory_activity_p_value
P-value for the regulatory activity test.
regulatory_activity_fdr
Benjamini–Hochberg adjusted P-value for regulatory activity.
regulatory_activity_status
Source activity call: active or inactive.
gwas_thickness_p_lt_1e_5_count
Number of cortical-thickness associations at P < 1 × 10^-5.
gwas_thickness_p_lt_5e_8_count
Number of cortical-thickness associations at P < 5 × 10^-8.
gwas_surface_area_p_lt_1e_5_count
Number of cortical-surface-area associations at P < 1 × 10^-5.
gwas_surface_area_p_lt_5e_8_count
Number of cortical-surface-area associations at P < 5 × 10^-8.
allelic_log2fc_alt_vs_ref
Source log2 fold-change for the tested alternative allele relative to the reference allele.
allelic_average_log2_expression
Average log2 expression used in the allelic model.
allelic_moderated_t
Moderated t-statistic for the vehicle allelic effect.
allelic_p_value
P-value for the vehicle allelic effect.
allelic_fdr
Benjamini–Hochberg adjusted P-value for the vehicle allelic effect.
allelic_B_log_odds
B-statistic/log-odds that the allele is differentially expressed.
emvar
Source binary call indicating an expression-modulating variant/allelic effect.
caqtl_beta
Published caQTL effect size; blank for ENIGMA rows.
higher_accessibility_allele
Higher-accessibility caQTL allele; blank for ENIGMA rows.
condition_activity_statistic
Squared condition-dependent activity statistic (logFC/se)^2.
condition_activity_log2fc_stim_vs_vehicle
Condition-dependent activity log2 fold-change for CHIR stimulation versus vehicle.
condition_activity_p_value
P-value for the condition-dependent activity test.
condition_activity_fdr
Benjamini–Hochberg adjusted P-value for condition-dependent activity.
condition_allelic_log2fc_stim_vs_vehicle
Condition-dependent allelic interaction log2 fold-change for CHIR stimulation versus vehicle.
condition_allelic_average_log2_expression
Average log2 expression in the condition-dependent allelic model.
condition_allelic_moderated_t
Moderated t-statistic for the condition-dependent allelic interaction.
condition_allelic_p_value
P-value for the condition-dependent allelic interaction.
condition_allelic_fdr
Benjamini–Hochberg adjusted P-value for the condition-dependent allelic interaction.
condition_allelic_B_log_odds
B-statistic/log-odds for the condition-dependent allelic interaction.
qc_pass
TRUE for rows retained after the documented source and package-level QC checks.

Quality control

The authors trimmed adapters with cutadapt v4.1, retained perfectly matched 20-bp barcodes, filtered barcode observations with DNA or RNA counts below 5, required at least 5 unique barcodes per element, removed barcode-level RNA/DNA outliers with boxplot.stats(), removed low-correlation biological replicates (correlations 0.3–0.7), and retained elements represented in at least 10 replicates. The supplementary vehicle activity sheet is post-QC and contains 17,837 rows, of which 988 are called active at FDR < 0.1 and 16,849 inactive. The package additionally required non-empty identifiers, finite activity statistics, and active/inactive status; all 17,837 rows passed. For the stimulation-versus-vehicle comparative analysis, the authors excluded one replicate with a DNA library-size correction factor below 0.10. A source p-value of 0 is retained as the authors’ underflow indicator (<2.225074 × 10^-308).

Curation notes

This is the ENIGMA vehicle sheet (Supplementary Table 3a-style activity results) and uses the source legend's hg19 coordinates. The activity rows include inactive elements so researchers can compare active calls against the tested background; inactive is not a QC failure. The condition-dependent columns are repeated from the authors' separate interaction sheets and are blank when a variant was not included in that test. The biological source is primary human neural progenitor cells; CL:0011020 is the generic neural progenitor-cell ontology term because a more specific terminal cell type was not stated.

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