Experiment / E45U0UUWCEpisomal Plasmid MPRA

Baseline plasmid MPRA of psychiatric risk SNPs in Neuro-2a cells

Transcriptional-regulatory convergence across functional MDD risk variants identified by massively parallel reporter assays

A pooled library of human hg19 SNP-centered allele tiles was transfected into mouse Neuro-2a cells without drug treatment. Each allele was represented by up to ten unique 10-bp barcodes, and reporter RNA activity was quantified relative to delivered plasmid DNA across six replicate wells.

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Perturbation & assay details

Basal / Untreated

Episomal plasmid MPRA using human hg19 allele tiles up to 126 bp centered on each candidate SNP, ten unique 10-bp barcodes per allele, an hsp68 minimal promoter driving dsRed, and a WPRE RNA-stabilization element. The pooled plasmid was delivered by Lipofectamine 2000; targeted reporter-barcode RNA and input-plasmid DNA were sequenced, and activity was calculated from log2 RNA/DNA barcode expression with basal-barcode normalization. Six wells were assayed, with three at each of two initial plating densities.

Processed data

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Filters apply to this table only. The CSV download contains the complete processed table; filtered rows are available through the API.

Column dictionary · 41 definitions
variant_id
dbSNP rs identifier for the tested SNP.
source_locus
GWAS or control locus label associated with the library element.
ld_block
Source LD-block identifier for the SNP.
tag_snp
GWAS index/tag SNP for the LD block.
reference_allele
dbSNP reference allele used for the allele contrast.
alternate_allele
dbSNP alternative allele used for the allele contrast.
sequence_alleles
Allele pair recorded in the library design sheet.
maf
Minor allele frequency recorded in the library design sheet.
ld_r2
LD R2 to the tag SNP recorded in the library design sheet.
snp_hg19_coord
SNP coordinate in hg19 notation.
hg38_chromosome
Chromosome label supplied by the source annotation; coordinates are the source hg38 fields.
hg38_start
Source hg38 start coordinate.
hg38_end
Source hg38 end coordinate.
ref_dna_barcodes_after_qc
Number of reference-allele barcode oligos remaining after DNA and replicate QC.
alt_dna_barcodes_after_qc
Number of alternate-allele barcode oligos remaining after DNA and replicate QC.
ref_barcode_n_after_qc
Number of reference barcodes contributing at least one post-QC expression value.
alt_barcode_n_after_qc
Number of alternate barcodes contributing at least one post-QC expression value.
ref_valid_replicates
Number of replicate-level reference activity means available after QC.
alt_valid_replicates
Number of replicate-level alternate activity means available after QC.
ref_activity_rep1
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the reference allele in replicate 1 (HD1).
ref_activity_rep2
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the reference allele in replicate 2 (HD2).
ref_activity_rep3
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the reference allele in replicate 3 (HD3).
ref_activity_rep4
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the reference allele in replicate 4 (MH1).
ref_activity_rep5
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the reference allele in replicate 5 (MH2).
ref_activity_rep6
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the reference allele in replicate 6 (MH3).
alt_activity_rep1
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the alternate allele in replicate 1 (HD1).
alt_activity_rep2
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the alternate allele in replicate 2 (HD2).
alt_activity_rep3
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the alternate allele in replicate 3 (HD3).
alt_activity_rep4
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the alternate allele in replicate 4 (MH1).
alt_activity_rep5
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the alternate allele in replicate 5 (MH2).
alt_activity_rep6
Basal-normalized mean log2 RNA/DNA activity for the alternate allele in replicate 6 (MH3).
ref_mean_activity_log2
Mean of available reference-allele replicate activity values.
alt_mean_activity_log2
Mean of available alternate-allele replicate activity values.
alt_minus_ref_log2fc
Derived alternate-minus-reference difference in mean basal-normalized log2 activity.
qc_missing_allele_replicate_means
Number of missing allele-by-replicate activity means among the 12 expected values.
published_mpra1_mean_log2fc
Authors' published first-assay allelic mean log2 fold change, when present in the summary table.
published_first_assay_ttest_p
Authors' published uncorrected first-assay allelic t-test p-value, when present.
published_first_assay_empirical_q
Authors' empirical q-value for the first-assay allelic test, when present.
published_first_assay_hit
Authors' first-assay significance call (Yes/No), when present.
published_first_and_vehicle_hit
Authors' call for significance in both the first assay and second-assay vehicle condition, when present.
qc_pass
TRUE for a row retained after the package QC filters.

Quality control

GEO unfiltered barcode counts were reprocessed using the authors' stated thresholds: DNA barcodes with <75 counts were removed; allele sequences with <4 DNA-supported barcodes were removed; RNA barcode counts <30 per sample were removed; barcode expression outliers >2 standard deviations from the allele mean within a sample were removed; barcodes observed in <3 of 6 RNA replicates were removed; allele/sample groups with <4 remaining barcodes were removed; and SNPs lacking at least two valid allele-level replicate means for either allele were excluded. The resulting table contains 1,011 of 1,454 candidate SNPs and only QC-passing rows. The article reports 1,013 analyzed SNPs; the two-row difference is noted as a deposited-count/version or boundary-handling discrepancy. Published first-assay statistics and hit calls are merged where available from the authors' 277-SNP summary.

Curation notes

The processed table is one row per QC-passing SNP and reports allele-level activity in six untreated Neuro-2a replicates. Effects are explicitly calculated as alternate minus reference; source summary statistics are retained separately because the authors used empirical basal-barcode calibration rather than a conventional FDR for this assay. The two-density design was reported as having no detectable density effect. The library includes a CDKAL1 negative-control locus and a positive control sequence, but these non-SNP controls are not represented in table.csv because the table is variant-focused.

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