The whole blood transcriptional regulation landscape in 465 COVID-19 infected samples from Japan COVID-19 Task Force

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32276-2
• Publication Date: 2022-08-22T10:02:55Z
• Authors: Qingbo S. Wang; Ryuya Edahiro; Ho Namkoong; Takanori Hasegawa; Yuya Shirai; Kyuto Sonehara; Hiromu Tanaka; Ho Lee; Ryunosuke Saiki; Takayoshi Hyugaji; Eigo Shimizu; Kotoe Katayama; Masahiro Kanai; Tatsuhiko Naito; Noah Sasa; Kenichi Yamamoto; Yasuhiro Kato; Takayoshi Morita; Kazuhisa Takahashi; Norihiro Harada; Toshio Naito; Makoto Hiki; Yasushi Matsushita; Haruhi Takagi; Masako Ichikawa; Ai Nakamura; Sonoko Harada; Yuuki Sandhu; Hiroki Kabata; Katsunori Masaki; Hirofumi Kamata; Shinnosuke Ikemura; Shotaro Chubachi; Satoshi Okamori; Hideki Terai; Atsuho Morita; Takanori Asakura; Junichi Sasaki; Hiroshi Morisaki; Yoshifumi Uwamino; Kosaku Nanki; Sho Uchida; Shunsuke Uno; Tomoyasu Nishimura; Takashri Ishiguro; Taisuke Isono; Shun Shibata; Yuma Matsui; Chiaki Hosoda; Kenji Takano; Takashi Nishida; Yoichi Kobayashi; Yotaro Takaku; Noboru Takayanagi; Soichiro Ueda; Ai Tada; Masayoshi Miyawaki; Masaomi Yamamoto; Eriko Yoshida; Reina Hayashi; Tomoki Nagasaka; Sawako Arai; Yutaro Kaneko; Kana Sasaki; Etsuko Tagaya; Masatoshi Kawana; Ken Arimura; Kunihiko Takahashi; Tatsuhiko Anzai; Satoshi Ito; Akifumi Endo; Yuji Uchimura; Yasunari Miyazaki; Takayuki Honda; Tomoya Tateishi; Shuji Tohda; Naoya Ichimura; Kazunari Sonobe; Chihiro Tani Sassa; Jun Nakajima; Yasushi Nakano; Yukiko Nakajima; Ryusuke Anan; Ryosuke Arai; Yuko Kurihara; Yuko Harada; Kazumi Nishio; Tetsuya Ueda; Masanori Azuma; Ryuichi Saito; Toshikatsu Sado; Yoshimune Miyazaki; Ryuichi Sato; Yuki Haruta; Tadao Nagasaki; Yoshinori Yasui; Yoshinori Hasegawa; Yoshikazu Mutoh; Tomoki Kimura; Tomonori Sato; Reoto Takei; Satoshi Hagimoto; Yoichiro Noguchi; Yasuhiko Yamano; Hajime Sasano; Sho Ota; Yasushi Nakamori; Kazuhisa Yoshiya; Fukuki Saito; Tomoyuki Yoshihara; Daiki Wada; Hiromu Iwamura; Syuji Kanayama; Shuhei Maruyama; Takashi Yoshiyama; Ken Ohta; Hiroyuki Kokuto; Hideo Ogata; Yoshiaki Tanaka; Kenichi Arakawa; Masafumi Shimoda; Takeshi Osawa; Hiroki Tateno; Isano Hase; Shuichi Yoshida; Shoji Suzuki; Miki Kawada; Hirohisa Horinouchi; Fumitake Saito; Keiko Mitamura; Masao Hagihara; Junichi Ochi; Tomoyuki Uchida; Rie Baba; Daisuke Arai; Takayuki Ogura; Hidenori Takahashi; Shigehiro Hagiwara; Genta Nagao; Shunichiro Konishi; Ichiro Nakachi; Koji Murakami; Mitsuhiro Yamada; Hisatoshi Sugiura; Hirohito Sano; Shuichiro Matsumoto; Nozomu Kimura; Yoshinao Ono; Hiroaki Baba; Yusuke Suzuki; Sohei Nakayama; Keita Masuzawa; Shinichi Namba; Takayuki Shiroyama; Yoshimi Noda; Takayuki Niitsu; Yuichi Adachi; Takatoshi Enomoto; Saori Amiya; Reina Hara; Yuta Yamaguchi; Teruaki Murakami; Tomoki Kuge; Kinnosuke Matsumoto; Yuji Yamamoto; Makoto Yamamoto; Midori Yoneda; Kazunori Tomono; Kazuto Kato; Haruhiko Hirata; Yoshito Takeda; Hidefumi Koh; Tadashi Manabe; Yohei Funatsu; Fumimaro Ito; Takahiro Fukui; Keisuke Shinozuka; Sumiko Kohashi; Masatoshi Miyazaki; Tomohisa Shoko; Mitsuaki Kojima; Tomohiro Adachi; Motonao Ishikawa; Kenichiro Takahashi; Takashi Inoue; Toshiyuki Hirano; Keigo Kobayashi; Hatsuyo Takaoka; Kazuyoshi Watanabe; Naoki Miyazawa; Yasuhiro Kimura; Reiko Sado; Hideyasu Sugimoto; Akane Kamiya; Naota Kuwahara; Akiko Fujiwara; Tomohiro Matsunaga; Yoko Sato; Takenori Okada; Yoshihiro Hirai; Hidetoshi Kawashima; Atsuya Narita; Kazuki Niwa; Yoshiyuki Sekikawa; Koichi Nishi; Masaru Nishitsuji; Mayuko Tani; Junya Suzuki; Hiroki Nakatsumi; Takashi Ogura; Hideya Kitamura; Eri Hagiwara; Kota Murohashi; Hiroko Okabayashi; Takao Mochimaru; Shigenari Nukaga; Ryosuke Satomi; Yoshitaka Oyamada; Nobuaki Mori; Tomoya Baba; Yasutaka Fukui; Mitsuru Odate; Shuko Mashimo; Yasushi Makino; Kazuma Yagi; Mizuha Hashiguchi; Junko Kagyo; Tetsuya Shiomi; Satoshi Fuke; Hiroshi Saito; Tomoya Tsuchida; Shigeki Fujitani; Mumon Takita; Daiki Morikawa; Toru Yoshida; Takehiro Izumo; Minoru Inomata; Naoyuki Kuse; Nobuyasu Awano; Mari Tone; Akihiro Ito; Yoshihiko Nakamura; Kota Hoshino; Junichi Maruyama; Hiroyasu Ishikura; Tohru Takata; Toshio Odani; Masaru Amishima; Takeshi Hattori; Yasuo Shichinohe; Takashi Kagaya; Toshiyuki Kita; Kazuhide Ohta; Satoru Sakagami; Kiyoshi Koshida; Kentaro Hayashi; Tetsuo Shimizu; Yutaka Kozu; Hisato Hiranuma; Yasuhiro Gon; Namiki Izumi; Kaoru Nagata; Ken Ueda; Reiko Taki; Satoko Hanada; Kodai Kawamura; Kazuya Ichikado; Kenta Nishiyama; Hiroyuki Muranaka; Kazunori Nakamura; Naozumi Hashimoto; Keiko Wakahara; Sakamoto Koji; Norihito Omote; Akira Ando; Nobuhiro Kodama; Yasunari Kaneyama; Shunsuke Maeda; Takashige Kuraki; Takemasa Matsumoto; Koutaro Yokote; Taka-Aki Nakada; Ryuzo Abe; Taku Oshima; Tadanaga Shimada; Masahiro Harada; Takeshi Takahashi; Hiroshi Ono; Toshihiro Sakurai; Takayuki Shibusawa; Yoshifumi Kimizuka; Akihiko Kawana; Tomoya Sano; Chie Watanabe; Ryohei Suematsu; Hisako Sageshima; Ayumi Yoshifuji; Kazuto Ito; Saeko Takahashi; Kota Ishioka; Morio Nakamura; Makoto Masuda; Aya Wakabayashi; Hiroki Watanabe; Suguru Ueda; Masanori Nishikawa; Yusuke Chihara; Mayumi Takeuchi; Keisuke Onoi; Jun Shinozuka; Atsushi Sueyoshi; Yoji Nagasaki; Masaki Okamoto; Sayoko Ishihara; Masatoshi Shimo; Yoshihisa Tokunaga; Yu Kusaka; Takehiko Ohba; Susumu Isogai; Aki Ogawa; Takuya Inoue; Satoru Fukuyama; Yoshihiro Eriguchi; Akiko Yonekawa; Keiko Kan-o; Koichiro Matsumoto; Kensuke Kanaoka; Shoichi Ihara; Kiyoshi Komuta; Yoshiaki Inoue; Shigeru Chiba; Kunihiro Yamagata; Yuji Hiramatsu; Hirayasu Kai; Koichiro Asano; Tsuyoshi Oguma; Yoko Ito; Satoru Hashimoto; Masaki Yamasaki; Yu Kasamatsu; Yuko Komase; Naoya Hida; Takahiro Tsuburai; Baku Oyama; Minoru Takada; Hidenori Kanda; Yuichiro Kitagawa; Tetsuya Fukuta; Takahito Miyake; Shozo Yoshida; Shinji Ogura; Shinji Abe; Yuta Kono; Yuki Togashi; Hiroyuki Takoi; Ryota Kikuchi; Shinichi Ogawa; Tomouki Ogata; Shoichiro Ishihara; Arihiko Kanehiro; Shinji Ozaki; Yasuko Fuchimoto; Sae Wada; Nobukazu Fujimoto; Kei Nishiyama; Mariko Terashima; Satoru Beppu; Kosuke Yoshida; Osamu Narumoto; Hideaki Nagai; Nobuharu Ooshima; Mitsuru Motegi; Akira Umeda; Kazuya Miyagawa; Hisato Shimada; Mayu Endo; Yoshiyuki Ohira; Masafumi Watanabe; Sumito Inoue; Akira Igarashi; Masamichi Sato; Hironori Sagara; Akihiko Tanaka; Shin Ohta; Tomoyuki Kimura; Yoko Shibata; Yoshinori Tanino; Takefumi Nikaido; Hiroyuki Minemura; Yuki Sato; Yuichiro Yamada; Takuya Hashino; Masato Shinoki; Hajime Iwagoe; Hiroshi Takahashi; Kazuhiko Fujii; Hiroto Kishi; Masayuki Kanai; Tomonori Imamura; Tatsuya Yamashita; Masakiyo Yatomi; Toshitaka Maeno; Shinichi Hayashi; Mai Takahashi; Mizuki Kuramochi; Isamu Kamimaki; Yoshiteru Tominaga; Tomoo Ishii; Mitsuyoshi Utsugi; Akihiro Ono; Toru Tanaka; Takeru Kashiwada; Kazue Fujita; Yoshinobu Saito; Masahiro Seike; Hiroko Watanabe; Hiroto Matsuse; Norio Kodaka; Chihiro Nakano; Takeshi Oshio; Takatomo Hirouchi; Shohei Makino; Moritoki Egi; Yosuke Omae; Yasuhito Nannya; Takafumi Ueno; Tomomi Takano; Kazuhiko Katayama; Masumi Ai; Atsushi Kumanogoh; Toshiro Sato; Naoki Hasegawa; Katsushi Tokunaga; Makoto Ishii; Ryuji Koike; Yuko Kitagawa; Akinori Kimura; Seiya Imoto; Satoru Miyano; Seishi Ogawa; Takanori Kanai; Koichi Fukunaga; Yukinori Okada
• Keywords: Quantitative trait loci; 0303 health sciences; Membrane Glycoproteins; Science; Q; Quantitative Trait Loci; COVID-19; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Article; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; Japan; Viral infection; Humans; Lectins, C-Type; Gene expression; Receptors, Immunologic; Transcriptomics; Genome-Wide Association Study

Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a recently-emerged infectious that has caused millions of deaths, where comprehensive understanding mechanisms still unestablished. In particular, studies gene expression dynamics and regulation landscape in COVID-19 infected individuals are limited. Here, we report on thorough analysis whole blood RNA-seq data from 465 genotyped samples the Japan Task Force, including 359 severe 106 non-severe cases. We discover 1169 putative causal quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) 34 possible colocalizations with biobank fine-mapping results hematopoietic traits Japanese population, 1549 splice QTLs (sQTLs; e.g. two independent sQTLs at TOR1AIP1 ), as well biologically interpretable trans-eQTL examples (e.g., REST STING1 all fine-mapped single variant resolution. perform differential to elucidate 198 genes increased cases enriched for innate immune-related functions. Finally, evaluate limited but non-zero effect phenotype eQTL discovery, highlight presence severity-interaction eQTLs (ieQTLs; e.g., CLEC4C MYBL2 ). Our study provides catalog regulatory variants Japanese, reference transcriptional landscapes response infection.