Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Single cell transcriptome in aneuploidies reveals mechanisms of gene dosage imbalance

  • Georgios Stamoulis,
  • Marco Garieri,
  • Periklis Makrythanasis,
  • Audrey Letourneau,
  • Michel Guipponi,
  • Nikolaos Panousis,
  • Frédérique Sloan-Béna,
  • Emilie Falconnet,
  • Pascale Ribaux,
  • Christelle Borel,
  • Federico Santoni,
  • Stylianos E. Antonarakis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12273-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Gene dosage anomalies such as those caused by aneuploidy underlie diseases including Down syndrome. Here, the authors perform allele-specific single cell transcriptome analysis to investigate the mechanisms of gene dosage imbalance in fibroblasts with trisomies T21, T18, T13 and T8.