[HTML][HTML] The impact of rare protein coding genetic variation on adult cognitive function

CY Chen, R Tian, T Ge, M Lam, G Sanchez-Andrade… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Compelling evidence suggests that human cognitive function is strongly influenced by
genetics. Here, we conduct a large-scale exome study to examine whether rare protein …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk alters the penetrance of monogenic kidney disease

A Khan, N Shang, JG Nestor, C Weng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is determined by an interplay of monogenic, polygenic, and
environmental risks. Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and COL4A …

[HTML][HTML] Rare variants in the sodium-dependent phosphate transporter gene SLC34A3 explain missing heritability of urinary stone disease

O Sadeghi-Alavijeh, MMY Chan, SH Moochhala… - Kidney International, 2023 - Elsevier
Urinary stone disease (USD) is a major health burden affecting over 10% of the United
Kingdom population. While stone disease is associated with lifestyle, genetic factors also …

ProtVar: mapping and contextualizing human missense variation

JD Stephenson, P Totoo, DF Burke… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Genomic variation can impact normal biological function in complex ways and so
understanding variant effects requires a broad range of data to be coherently assimilated …

[HTML][HTML] High-dimensional phenotyping to define the genetic basis of cellular morphology

M Tegtmeyer, J Arora, S Asgari, BA Cimini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The morphology of cells is dynamic and mediated by genetic and environmental factors.
Characterizing how genetic variation impacts cell morphology can provide an important link …

[PDF][PDF] Gene expression and RNA splicing explain large proportions of the heritability for complex traits in cattle

R Xiang, L Fang, S Liu, IM Macleod, Z Liu, EJ Breen… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Many quantitative trait loci (QTLs) are in non-coding regions. Therefore, QTLs are assumed
to affect gene regulation. Gene expression and RNA splicing are primary steps of …

[HTML][HTML] Biobanking as a tool for genomic research: from allele frequencies to cross-ancestry association studies

TE Lazareva, YA Barbitoff, AI Changalidis… - Journal of Personalized …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, great advances have been made in the field of collection, storage, and
analysis of biological samples. Large collections of samples, biobanks, have been …

Systematic single-variant and gene-based association testing of thousands of phenotypes in 426,370 UK Biobank exomes

KJ Karczewski, M Solomonson, KR Chao, JK Goodrich… - Medrxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Genome-wide association studies have successfully discovered thousands of common
variants associated with human diseases and traits, but the landscape of rare variation in …

[PDF][PDF] Estimating the number of diseases–the concept of rare, ultra-rare, and hyper-rare

CIE Smith, P Bergman, DW Hagey - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
At the dawn of the personalized medicine era, the number of rare diseases has been
estimated at 10,000. By considering the influence of environmental factors together with …

[HTML][HTML] Causal association between inflammatory bowel disease and 32 site-specific extracolonic cancers: a Mendelian randomization study

H Gao, S Zheng, X Yuan, J Xie, L Xu - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background The risk of extracolonic cancer is increased in inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD) patients, but it is not clear whether there is a causal relationship. We aimed to …