TY - JOUR KW - Cell Differentiation KW - Cell Line KW - Cell Lineage KW - Epigenesis, Genetic KW - Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental KW - Humans KW - Pluripotent Stem Cells KW - SOX21 KW - Transcriptome KW - Tretinoin KW - acid signaling KW - anterior or posterior neural fates KW - cell line variation KW - early embryo KW - human population KW - Pluripotent Stem Cells KW - retinoic AU - Suel-Kee Kim AU - Seungmae Seo AU - Genevieve Stein-O'Brien AU - Amritha Jaishankar AU - Kazuya Ogawa AU - Nicola Micali AU - Victor Luria AU - Amir Karger AU - Yanhong Wang AU - Hyojin Kim AU - Thomas M. Hyde AU - Joel E. Kleinman AU - Ty Voss AU - Elana J. Fertig AU - Joo-Heon Shin AU - Roland Bürli AU - Alan J. Cross AU - Nicholas J. Brandon AU - Daniel R. Weinberger AU - Joshua G. Chenoweth AU - Daniel J. Hoeppner AU - Nenad Sestan AU - Carlo Colantuoni AU - Ronald D. McKay AB - Variability between human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) lines remains a challenge and opportunity in biomedicine. In this study, hPSC lines from multiple donors were differentiated toward neuroectoderm and mesendoderm lineages. We revealed dynamic transcriptomic patterns that delineate the emergence of these lineages, which were conserved across lines, along with individual line-specific transcriptional signatures that were invariant throughout differentiation. These transcriptomic signatures predicted an antagonism between SOX21-driven forebrain fates and retinoic acid-induced hindbrain fates. Replicate lines and paired adult tissue demonstrated the stability of these line-specific transcriptomic traits. We show that this transcriptomic variation in lineage bias had both genetic and epigenetic origins, aligned with the anterior-to-posterior structure of early mammalian development, and was present across a large collection of hPSC lines. These findings contribute to developing systematic analyses of PSCs to define the origin and consequences of variation in the early events orchestrating individual human development. BT - Stem Cell Reports DA - 2024-09-10 DO - 10.1016/j.stemcr.2024.07.004 IS - 9 LA - eng N2 - Variability between human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) lines remains a challenge and opportunity in biomedicine. In this study, hPSC lines from multiple donors were differentiated toward neuroectoderm and mesendoderm lineages. We revealed dynamic transcriptomic patterns that delineate the emergence of these lineages, which were conserved across lines, along with individual line-specific transcriptional signatures that were invariant throughout differentiation. These transcriptomic signatures predicted an antagonism between SOX21-driven forebrain fates and retinoic acid-induced hindbrain fates. Replicate lines and paired adult tissue demonstrated the stability of these line-specific transcriptomic traits. We show that this transcriptomic variation in lineage bias had both genetic and epigenetic origins, aligned with the anterior-to-posterior structure of early mammalian development, and was present across a large collection of hPSC lines. These findings contribute to developing systematic analyses of PSCs to define the origin and consequences of variation in the early events orchestrating individual human development. PY - 2024 SP - 1336 EP - 1350 T2 - Stem Cell Reports TI - Individual variation in the emergence of anterior-to-posterior neural fates from human pluripotent stem cells VL - 19 SN - 2213-6711 ER -