HMC3 integrated lentiMPRA of Alzheimer’s and microglial candidate variants
Regulatory landscape of Alzheimer’s disease variants in human microgliaA pooled second-generation lentiviral MPRA tested both alleles of candidate regulatory variants nominated from Alzheimer’s disease GWAS fine-mapping, microglial eQTLs, and caQTLs in the immortalized human HMC3 microglial cell line. Reporter DNA and RNA barcodes were collected after 72 hours and analyzed for allelic activity.
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Perturbation & assay details
Basal / Untreated
The library used approximately 230-bp HiFi oligonucleotides carrying candidate sequences, both alleles, and random 15-bp barcodes, cloned upstream of a minimal promoter and eGFP reporter in a lentiviral vector. HMC3 cells were transduced at approximately MOI 50, using about 1 × 10^7 cells per biological replicate; three biological replicates were analyzed. MPRAflow v2.0 associated barcodes with constructs and MPRAnalyze v1.24.0 modeled DNA/RNA counts; log2 fold change is the alternate- versus reference-allele activity effect.
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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 · 21 definitions
- variant_id
- Unique dbSNP rs identifier for the tested variant.
- chromosome
- Chromosome label for the tested variant.
- position_hg38
- 1-based genomic base-pair coordinate treated as GRCh38/hg38.
- reported_effect_allele
- Effect allele reported in the authors’ allelic-activity result.
- reported_non_effect_allele
- Non-effect comparator allele reported in the authors’ allelic-activity result.
- reference_allele_match
- Authors’ REF_match flag for whether the reported allele orientation matches the sequence-design reference.
- log2_alt_vs_ref_activity
- MPRAnalyze log2 fold change for alternate versus reference allele reporter activity; positive values indicate higher alternate-allele activity.
- fdr
- Benjamini–Hochberg-adjusted allelic-effect significance value from MPRAnalyze.
- emVar
- TRUE when the allelic-effect FDR is < 0.05, marking an expression-modulating variant.
- allelic_effect_direction
- Direction of the alternate-allele activity effect based on the log2 fold change.
- prioritization_source
- Variant-prioritization source label from the authors’ MPRA library-design table; NA means no matching library annotation was available.
- gwas_finemapping
- Indicator that the library-design table flags Bellenguez GWAS fine-mapping.
- caQTL_finemapping
- Indicator that the library-design table flags microglial caQTL fine-mapping.
- lead_eQTL
- Indicator that the library-design table flags a microglial lead eQTL.
- LD_eQTL_ABC
- Indicator that the library-design table flags an eQTL-LD variant overlapping an ABC enhancer.
- LD_eQTL_sig_peak
- Indicator that the library-design table flags an eQTL-LD variant overlapping a significant microglial ATAC peak.
- schwartzentruber_finemapping
- Indicator that the library-design table flags Schwartzentruber GWAS fine-mapping.
- bellenguez_gwas
- Indicator that the library-design table flags a Bellenguez GWAS lead variant.
- jansen_gwas
- Indicator that the library-design table flags a Jansen GWAS lead variant.
- kunkle_gwas
- Indicator that the library-design table flags a Kunkle GWAS lead variant.
- qc_status
- Final processing status; pass means the row passed the author-provided active-CRS filter and required-field checks.
Quality control
The authors retained candidate regulatory sequences with at least 10 unique barcodes, removed incomplete reference–alternate pairs, and excluded constructs with log2 RNA/DNA ≤ 0. MPRAnalyze modeled normalized DNA and RNA counts with scrambled-sequence controls, and Benjamini–Hochberg correction defined emVars at FDR < 0.05. The generated table additionally retained only rows marked CRS=active in the authors’ AllelicActivity export and required non-missing variant, allele, log2 fold-change, and FDR fields; this removed unlabeled control/invalid rows and all CRS=remove rows.
Curation notes
The processed table contains 3,786 variant rows from the HMC3 AllelicActivity export and 1,177 emVars, after excluding CRS=remove rows, 263 unlabeled NA control rows, and incomplete records. The authors’ export reports 1,181 FDR-significant active rows before removal of four active rows lacking variant identifiers. Source annotations are joined by variant_id from iMGL_MPRA_consensus_table.tsv while all activity statistics come from HMC3_MPRA_AllelicActivity.tsv.gz. The activity export does not explicitly state an assembly; GRCh38 is used because the manuscript’s functional annotations use TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38, while some upstream fine-mapping filenames reference hg19.