Strategic vision for improving human health at The Forefront of Genomics

ED Green, C Gunter, LG Biesecker, V Di Francesco… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Starting with the launch of the Human Genome Project three decades ago, and continuing
after its completion in 2003, genomics has progressively come to have a central and …

Improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies

H Wand, SA Lambert, C Tamburro, MA Iacocca… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs), which often aggregate results from genome-wide association
studies, can bridge the gap between initial discovery efforts and clinical applications for the …

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 enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes

J Nasser, DT Bergman, CP Fulco, P Guckelberger… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of noncoding loci that
are associated with human diseases and complex traits, each of which could reveal insights …

[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 …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

[PDF][PDF] A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome

K Zhang, JD Hocker, M Miller, X Hou, J Chiou… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Current catalogs of regulatory sequences in the human genome are still incomplete and lack
cell type resolution. To profile the activity of gene regulatory elements in diverse cell types …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic background modifies penetrance of monogenic variants for tier 1 genomic conditions

AC Fahed, M Wang, JR Homburger, AP Patel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic variation can predispose to disease both through (i) monogenic risk variants that
disrupt a physiologic pathway with large effect on disease and (ii) polygenic risk that …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative genomics multitool for scientific discovery and conservation

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Zoonomia Project is investigating the genomics of shared and specialized traits
in eutherian mammals. Here we provide genome assemblies for 131 species, of which all …

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

S Gazal, O Weissbrod, F Hormozdiari, KK Dey… - Nature …, 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 …