[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A global overview of pleiotropy and genetic architecture in complex traits

K Watanabe, S Stringer, O Frei, M Umićević Mirkov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
After a decade of genome-wide association studies (GWASs), fundamental questions in
human genetics, such as the extent of pleiotropy across the genome and variation in genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma proteomic associations with genetics and health in the UK Biobank

BB Sun, J Chiou, M Traylor, C Benner, YH Hsu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Pharma Proteomics Project is a precompetitive biopharmaceutical consortium
characterizing the plasma proteomic profiles of 54,219 UK Biobank participants. Here we …

A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

S Sakaue, M Kanai, Y Tanigawa, J Karjalainen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Current genome-wide association studies do not yet capture sufficient diversity in
populations and scope of phenotypes. To expand an atlas of genetic associations in non …

Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 17 loci associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Y Chen, X Du, A Kuppa, MF Feitosa, LF Bielak… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is common and partially heritable and has no
effective treatments. We carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta …

webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study

C Cao, J Wang, D Kwok, F Cui, Z Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The development of transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) has enabled
researchers to better identify and interpret causal genes in many diseases. However, there …

[HTML][HTML] Rare variant contribution to human disease in 281,104 UK Biobank exomes

Q Wang, RS Dhindsa, K Carss, AR Harper, A Nag… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have uncovered thousands of common variants
associated with human disease, but the contribution of rare variants to common disease …

GATK-gCNV enables the discovery of rare copy number variants from exome sequencing data

M Babadi, JM Fu, SK Lee, AN Smirnov, LD Gauthier… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) are major contributors to genetic diversity and disease. While
standardized methods, such as the genome analysis toolkit (GATK), exist for detecting short …

[HTML][HTML] An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney

BB Lake, R Menon, S Winfree, Q Hu, R Melo Ferreira… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding kidney disease relies on defining the complexity of cell types and states, their
associated molecular profiles and interactions within tissue neighbourhoods. Here we …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

J Schwartzentruber, S Cooper, JZ Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified. We …