Insights from multi-omics integration in complex disease primary tissues

P Kreitmaier, G Katsoula, E Zeggini - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have provided insights into the genetic basis of
complex diseases. In the next step, integrative multi-omics approaches can characterize …

Network-based methods for prediction of drug-target interactions

Z Wu, W Li, G Liu, Y Tang - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drug-target interaction (DTI) is the basis of drug discovery. However, it is time-consuming
and costly to determine DTIs experimentally. Over the past decade, various computational …

Systematic differences in discovery of genetic effects on gene expression and complex traits

H Mostafavi, JP Spence, S Naqvi, JK Pritchard - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Most signals in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of complex traits implicate
noncoding genetic variants with putative gene regulatory effects. However, currently …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of insomnia prioritizes genes associated with metabolic and psychiatric pathways

K Watanabe, PR Jansen, JE Savage, P Nandakumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insomnia is a heritable, highly prevalent sleep disorder for which no sufficient treatment
currently exists. Previous genome-wide association studies with up to 1.3 million subjects …

NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

R Browaeys, W Saelens, Y Saeys - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Computational methods that model how gene expression of a cell is influenced by
interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet (https://github. com/saeyslab/nichenetr), a …

Metascape provides a biologist-oriented resource for the analysis of systems-level datasets

Y Zhou, B Zhou, L Pache, M Chang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A critical component in the interpretation of systems-level studies is the inference of enriched
biological pathways and protein complexes contained within OMICs datasets. Successful …

Network medicine framework for identifying drug-repurposing opportunities for COVID-19

D Morselli Gysi, Í Do Valle, M Zitnik… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to quickly and reliably prioritize clinically
approved compounds for their potential effectiveness for severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Plasma proteomics identify biomarkers and pathogenesis of COVID-19

T Shu, W Ning, D Wu, J Xu, Q Han, M Huang, X Zou… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global public health
crisis. However, little is known about the pathogenesis and biomarkers of COVID-19. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale exome sequencing study implicates both developmental and functional changes in the neurobiology of autism

FK Satterstrom, JA Kosmicki, J Wang, MS Breen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We present the largest exome sequencing study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to date
(n= 35,584 total samples, 11,986 with ASD). Using an enhanced analytical framework to …