High-throughput phenotyping and genetic linkage of cortical bone microstructure in the mouse

BMC Genomics

Marco Stampanoni³  Ralph Müller¹  Leah Rae Donahue²  Kevin S Mader³ 

[1]Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8093, Switzerland

[2]The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, 04609, ME, USA

[3]Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, WBBA 213, 5352, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

关键词: cell alignment;    Cell distribution;    cell shape;    Cortical bone;    3D morphology;    Osteocyte lacunae;    Quantitative trait loci;    3D morphology;    Automated 3D imaging;    Phenotyping;   

Others  :  1219234
DOI  :  10.1186/s12864-015-1617-y

 received in 2014-10-09, accepted in 2015-05-05,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Understanding cellular structure and organization, which plays an important role in biological systems ranging from mechanosensation to neural organization, is a complicated multifactorial problem depending on genetics, environmental factors, and stochastic processes. Isolating these factors necessitates the measurement and sensitive quantification of many samples in a reliable, high-throughput, unbiased manner. In this manuscript we present a pipelined approach using a fully automated framework based on Synchrotron-based X-ray Tomographic Microscopy (SRXTM) for performing a full 3D characterization of millions of substructures.

Results

We demonstrate the framework on a genetic study on the femur bones of in-bred mice. We measured 1300 femurs from a F2 cross experiment in mice without the growth hormone (which can confound many of the smaller structural differences between strains) and characterized more than 50 million osteocyte lacunae (cell-sized hollows in the bone). The results were then correlated with genetic markers in a process called quantitative trait localization (QTL). Our findings provide a mapping between regions of the genome (all 19 autosomes) and observable phenotypes which could explain between 8–40 % of the variance using between 2–10 loci for each trait. This map shows 4 areas of overlap with previous studies looking at bone strength and 3 areas not previously associated with bone.

Conclusions

The mapping of microstructural phenotypes provides a starting point for both structure-function and genetic studies on murine bone structure and the specific loci can be investigated in more detail to identify single gene candidates which can then be translated to human investigations. The flexible infrastructure offers a full spectrum of shape, distribution, and connectivity metrics for cellular networks and can be adapted to a wide variety of materials ranging from plant roots to lung tissue in studies requiring high sample counts and sensitive metrics such as the drug-gene interactions and high-throughput screening.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Mader et al.

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