title: Identification of quantitative trait loci underlying proteome variation in human lymphoblastoid cells.
abstract: Population-based variability in protein expression patterns, especially in humans, is often observed but poorly understood. Moreover, very little is known about how interindividual genetic variation contributes to protein expression patterns. To begin to address this, we describe elements of technical and biological variations contributing to expression of 544 proteins in a population of 24 individual human lymphoblastoid cell lines that have been extensively genotyped as part of the International HapMap Project. We determined that expression levels of 10% of the proteins were tightly correlated to cell doubling rates. Using the publicly available genotypes for these lymphoblastoid cell lines, we applied a genetic association approach to identify quantitative trait loci associated with protein expression variation. Results identified 24 protein forms corresponding to 15 proteins for which genetic elements were responsible for >50% of the expression variation. The genetic variation associated with protein expression levels were located in cis with the gene coding for the transcript of the protein for 19 of these protein forms. Four of the genetic elements identified were coding non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms that resulted in migration pattern changes in the two-dimensional gel. This is the first description of large scale proteomics analysis demonstrating the direct relationship between genome and proteome variations in human cells.
authors.affiliation: Biomarkers and Systems Biology Center, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2194, USA.
authors.forename: Nikhil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Garge
authors.forename: Huaqin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Megan D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Rowland
authors.forename: Benjamin J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Cargile
authors.forename: Xinxin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Phillip C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Cooley
authors.forename: Grier P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: Maureen K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Bunger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D020543:Proteome / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics*; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome