TY - JOUR T1 - Assigning function to natural allelic variation via dynamic modeling of gene network induction JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/140467 SP - 140467 AU - Magali Richard AU - Florent Chuffart AU - Hélène Duplus-Bottin AU - Fanny Pouyet AU - Martin Spichty AU - Etienne Fulcrand AU - Marianne Entrevan AU - Audrey Barthelaix AU - Michael Springer AU - Daniel Jost AU - Gaёl Yvert Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/20/140467.abstract N2 - More and more natural DNA variants are being linked to physiological traits. Yet, understanding what differences they make on molecular regulations remains challenging. Important properties of gene regulatory networks can be captured by computational models. If model parameters can be ‘personalized’ according to the genotype, their variation may then reveal how DNA variants operate in the network. Here, we combined experiments and computations to visualize natural alleles of the yeast GAL3 gene in a space of model parameters describing the galactose response network. Alleles altering the activation of Gal3p by galactose were discriminated from those affecting its activity (production/degradation or efficiency of the activated protein). The approach allowed us to correctly predict that a non-synonymous SNP would change the binding affinity of Gal3p with the Gal80p transcriptional repressor. Our results illustrate how personalizing gene regulatory models can be used for the mechanistic interpretation of genetic variants. ER -