Combined population transcriptomic and genomic analysis reveals cis-regulatory differentiation of non-coding RNAs in maize

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第一作者： Lu, Jiawen

作者： Lu, Jiawen;Zhen, Sihan;Zhang, Jie;He, Cheng;Wang, Zheyuan;Zhang, Song;Wang, Jianhua;Gu, Riliang;Lu, Jiawen;Zhen, Sihan;Zhang, Jie;Xie, Yuxin;He, Cheng;Wang, Xiaoli;Wang, Zheyuan;Zhang, Song;Li, Yongxiang;Cui, Yu;Wang, Guoying;Liu, Jun;Fu, Junjie;Zheng, Xiaoming;Wang, Guoying;Zheng, Xiaoming;Zheng, Xiaoming;Li, Lin

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期刊名称：THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS （ 影响因子：5.4； 五年影响因子：5.7 ）

ISSN： 0040-5752

年卷期： 2023 年 136 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Key messageLong intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA), cis-acting expression quantitative trait locus (cis-eQTL), maize, regulatory evolution.The law of genetic variation during domestication explains the evolutionary mechanism and provides a theoretical basis for improving existing varieties of maize. Previous studies focused on exploiting regulatory variations controlling the expression of protein-coding genes rather than of non-protein-coding genes. Here, we examined the genetic and evolutionary features of long non-coding RNAs from intergenic regions (long intergenic non-coding RNAs, lincRNAs) using population-scale transcriptome data and identified 1168 lincRNAs with cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci (cis-eQTLs). We found that lincRNAs are more likely to be regulated by cis-eQTLs, which exert stronger effects than the protein-coding genes. During maize domestication and improvement, upregulated alleles of lincRNAs, which originated from both standing variation and new mutation, accumulate more frequently and show larger effect sizes than the coding genes. A stronger signature of genetic differentiation was observed in their regulatory regions compared to those of randomly sampled lincRNAs. In addition, we found that cis-regulatory differentiation of lincRNAs is related to the sequence conservation of lincRNA transcripts. Non-conserved lincRNAs more tend to gain upregulated alleles and show a stronger relationship with selected traits than conserved lincRNAs between maize and its wild relatives. Our findings in maize improve the understanding of cis-regulatory variation in lincRNA genes during domestication and improvement and provide an effective approach for prioritizing candidates for further investigation.

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