Systems genetics approaches for understanding complex traits with relevance for human disease

H Allayee, CR Farber, MM Seldin, EG Williams… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Quantitative traits are often complex because of the contribution of many loci, with further
complexity added by environmental factors. In medical research, systems genetics is a …

GenomeMUSter mouse genetic variation service enables multitrait, multipopulation data integration and analysis

RL Ball, MA Bogue, H Liang, A Srivastava… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Hundreds of inbred mouse strains and intercross populations have been used to
characterize the function of genetic variants that contribute to disease. Thousands of disease …

Interaction models matter: an efficient, flexible computational framework for model-specific investigation of epistasis

S Batista, VS Madar, PJ Freda, P Bhandary, A Ghosh… - BioData Mining, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Epistasis, the interaction between two or more genes, is integral to the study of
genetics and is present throughout nature. Yet, it is seldom fully explored as most …

Rare and common variants associated with alcohol consumption identify a conserved molecular network

BS Leger, JJ Meredith, T Ideker… - Alcohol: Clinical and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of
common variants associated with alcohol consumption. In contrast, genetic studies of …

Computational framework for statistical epistasis supports XOR penetrance function in a living system

S Batista, VS Madar, PJ Freda, P Bhandary, A Ghosh… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Statistical epistasis has been studied extensively because of its potential to provide
evidence for genetic interactions for phenotypes, but there have been methodological …