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 …

Limited overlap of eQTLs and GWAS hits due to systematic differences in discovery

H Mostafavi, JP Spence, S Naqvi, JK Pritchard - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Most signals in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of complex traits point to
noncoding genetic variants with putative gene regulatory effects. However, currently …

Estimating the causal tissues for complex traits and diseases

H Ongen, AA Brown, O Delaneau, NI Panousis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
How to interpret the biological causes underlying the predisposing markers identified
through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) remains an open question. One direct …

Opportunities and challenges for transcriptome-wide association studies

M Wainberg, N Sinnott-Armstrong, N Mancuso… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) integrate genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) and gene expression datasets to identify gene–trait associations. In this …

Adjusting for genetic confounders in transcriptome-wide association studies improves discovery of risk genes of complex traits

S Zhao, W Crouse, S Qian, K Luo, M Stephens, X He - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Many methods have been developed to leverage expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL)
data to nominate candidate genes from genome-wide association studies. These methods …

The missing link between genetic association and regulatory function

NJ Connally, S Nazeen, D Lee, H Shi… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The genetic basis of most traits is highly polygenic and dominated by non-coding alleles. It is
widely assumed that such alleles exert small regulatory effects on the expression of cis …

Multiple causal variants underlie genetic associations in humans

NS Abell, MK DeGorter, MJ Gloudemans, E Greenwald… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Associations between genetic variation and traits are often in noncoding regions with strong
linkage disequilibrium (LD), where a single causal variant is assumed to underlie the …

Predicting causal variants affecting expression by using whole-genome sequencing and RNA-seq from multiple human tissues

AA Brown, A Vinuela, O Delaneau, TD Spector… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Genetic association mapping produces statistical links between phenotypes and genomic
regions, but identifying causal variants remains difficult. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) …

Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets

Z Zhu, F Zhang, H Hu, A Bakshi, MR Robinson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic variants
associated with human complex traits. However, the genes or functional DNA elements …

Patterns of Cis Regulatory Variation in Diverse Human Populations

BE Stranger, SB Montgomery, AS Dimas, L Parts… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The genetic basis of gene expression variation has long been studied with the aim to
understand the landscape of regulatory variants, but also more recently to assist in the …