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 …

The role of epigenetic in dental and oral regenerative medicine by different types of dental stem cells: a comprehensive overview

A Hussain, H Tebyaniyan… - Stem cells international, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Postnatal teeth, wisdom teeth, and exfoliated deciduous teeth can be harvested for dental
stem cell (DSC) researches. These mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can differentiate and …

Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity

S Gazal, O Weissbrod, F Hormozdiari, KK Dey… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) generally do not implicate
target genes, as most disease SNPs are regulatory. Many SNP-to-gene (S2G) linking …

An open approach to systematically prioritize causal variants and genes at all published human GWAS trait-associated loci

E Mountjoy, EM Schmidt, M Carmona… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified many variants associated with
complex traits, but identifying the causal gene (s) is a major challenge. In the present study …

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

H Zhang, TU Ahearn, J Lecarpentier, D Barnes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor
subtype,–. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including …

Exome sequencing identifies breast cancer susceptibility genes and defines the contribution of coding variants to breast cancer risk

N Wilcox, M Dumont, A González-Neira, S Carvalho… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Linkage and candidate gene studies have identified several breast cancer susceptibility
genes, but the overall contribution of coding variation to breast cancer is unclear. To …

CARMA is a new Bayesian model for fine-mapping in genome-wide association meta-analyses

Z Yang, C Wang, L Liu, A Khan, A Lee, B Vardarajan… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Fine-mapping is commonly used to identify putative causal variants at genome-wide
significant loci. Here we propose a Bayesian model for fine-mapping that has several …

High-throughput PRIME-editing screens identify functional DNA variants in the human genome

X Ren, H Yang, JL Nierenberg, Y Sun, J Chen… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Despite tremendous progress in detecting DNA variants associated with human disease,
interpreting their functional impact in a high-throughput and single-base resolution manner …

Statistical and functional convergence of common and rare genetic influences on autism at chromosome 16p

DJ Weiner, E Ling, S Erdin, DJC Tai, R Yadav… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The canonical paradigm for converting genetic association to mechanism involves iteratively
mapping individual associations to the proximal genes through which they act. In contrast, in …

Personalized risk assessment for prevention and early detection of breast cancer: integration and implementation (PERSPECTIVE I&I)

JD Brooks, H Nabi, IL Andrulis, AC Antoniou… - Journal of personalized …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Early detection of breast cancer through screening reduces breast cancer mortality. The
benefits of screening must also be considered within the context of potential harms (eg, false …