Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies in ancestrally diverse populations: opportunities, methods, pitfalls, and recommendations

RE Peterson, K Kuchenbaecker, RK Walters, CY Chen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have focused primarily on populations of
European descent, but it is essential that diverse populations become better represented …

Fast two-stage phasing of large-scale sequence data

BL Browning, X Tian, Y Zhou, SR Browning - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Haplotype phasing is the estimation of haplotypes from genotype data. We present a fast,
accurate, and memory-efficient haplotype phasing method that scales to large-scale SNP …

Pangenome-based genome inference allows efficient and accurate genotyping across a wide spectrum of variant classes

J Ebler, P Ebert, WE Clarke, T Rausch, PA Audano… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Typical genotyping workflows map reads to a reference genome before identifying genetic
variants. Generating such alignments introduces reference biases and comes with …

A multi-tissue atlas of regulatory variants in cattle

S Liu, Y Gao, O Canela-Xandri, S Wang, Y Yu, W Cai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of genetic regulatory variants acting on livestock gene expression
is essential for interpreting the molecular mechanisms underlying traits of economic value …

rMVP: a memory-efficient, visualization-enhanced, and parallel-accelerated tool for genome-wide association study

L Yin, H Zhang, Z Tang, J Xu, D Yin… - Genomics …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Along with the development of high-throughput sequencing technologies, both sample size
and SNP number are increasing rapidly in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and …

Signatures of copy number alterations in human cancer

CD Steele, A Abbasi, SMA Islam, AL Bowes… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gains and losses of DNA are prevalent in cancer and emerge as a consequence of inter-
related processes of replication stress, mitotic errors, spindle multipolarity and breakage …

Multiple domestications of Asian rice

CY Jing, FM Zhang, XH Wang, MX Wang, L Zhou, Z Cai… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
The origin of domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been controversial for more than
half a century. The debates have focused on two leading hypotheses: a single domestication …

Accurate, scalable and integrative haplotype estimation

O Delaneau, JF Zagury, MR Robinson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The number of human genomes being genotyped or sequenced increases exponentially
and efficient haplotype estimation methods able to handle this amount of data are now …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic landscape of immune cell-specific gene regulation in immune-mediated diseases

M Ota, Y Nagafuchi, H Hatano, K Ishigaki, C Terao… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Genetic studies have revealed many variant loci that are associated with immune-mediated
diseases. To elucidate the disease pathogenesis, it is essential to understand the function of …