Overlapping genetic architecture between Parkinson disease and melanoma

U Dube, L Ibanez, JP Budde, BA Benitez, AA Davis… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
Epidemiologic studies have reported inconsistent results regarding an association between
Parkinson disease (PD) and cutaneous melanoma (melanoma). Identifying shared genetic …

Multi‐omics cannot replace sample size in genome‐wide association studies

DAA Baranger, AS Hatoum, R Polimanti… - Genes, Brain and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of multi‐omics information (eg, epigenetics and transcriptomics) can be
useful for interpreting findings from genome‐wide association studies (GWAS). It has been …

Prioritising causal genes at type 2 diabetes risk loci

AK Grotz, AL Gloyn, SK Thomsen - Current diabetes reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for type 2 diabetes
(T2D) risk have identified a large number of genetic loci associated with disease …

Integration of machine learning methods to dissect genetically imputed transcriptomic profiles in Alzheimer's disease

C Maj, T Azevedo, V Giansanti, O Borisov… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The genetic component of many common traits is associated with the gene expression and
several variants act as expression quantitative loci, regulating the gene expression in a …

Rewiring of gene expression in circulating white blood cells is associated with pregnancy outcome in heifers (Bos taurus)

SE Moorey, BN Walker, MF Elmore, JB Elmore… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Infertility is a challenging phenomenon in cattle that reduces the sustainability of beef
production worldwide. Here, we tested the hypothesis that gene expression profiles of …

A tissue-specific collaborative mixed model for jointly analyzing multiple tissues in transcriptome-wide association studies

X Shi, X Chai, Y Yang, Q Cheng, Y Jiao… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) integrate expression quantitative trait loci
(eQTLs) studies with genome-wide association studies (GWASs) to prioritize candidate …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-ancestry fine-mapping improves precision to identify causal genes in transcriptome-wide association studies

Z Lu, S Gopalan, D Yuan, DV Conti, B Pasaniuc… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) are a powerful approach to identify genes
whose expression is associated with complex disease risk. However, non-causal genes can …

Cis-and trans-eQTL TWASs of breast and ovarian cancer identify more than 100 susceptibility genes in the BCAC and OCAC consortia

ST Head, F Dezem, A Todor, J Yang, J Plummer… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) have investigated the role of genetically
regulated transcriptional activity in the etiologies of breast and ovarian cancer. However …

A genome-wide association study of total child psychiatric problems scores

A Neumann, IM Nolte, I Pappa, TS Ahluwalia… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Substantial genetic correlations have been reported across psychiatric disorders and
numerous cross-disorder genetic variants have been detected. To identify the genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Powerful eQTL mapping through low-coverage RNA sequencing

T Schwarz, T Boltz, K Hou, M Bot, C Duan… - Human Genetics and …, 2022 - cell.com
Mapping genetic variants that regulate gene expression (eQTL mapping) in large-scale RNA
sequencing (RNA-seq) studies is often employed to understand functional consequences of …