Interpreting non-coding disease-associated human variants using single-cell epigenomics

KJ Gaulton, S Preissl, B Ren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have linked hundreds of thousands of sequence
variants in the human genome to common traits and diseases. However, translating this …

CSEA-DB: an omnibus for human complex trait and cell type associations

Y Dai, R Hu, AM Manuel, A Liu, P Jia… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
During the past decade, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many
genetic variants with susceptibility to several thousands of complex diseases or traits. The …

Identifying disease-critical cell types and cellular processes across the human body by integration of single-cell profiles and human genetics

KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, DT Montoro, R Mohan… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a powerful means to identify loci and
genes contributing to disease, but in many cases the related cell types/states through which …

Epigenome-wide association studies and the interpretation of disease-omics

E Birney, GD Smith, JM Greally - PLoS genetics, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Epigenome-wide association studies represent one means of applying genome-wide
assays to identify molecular events that could be associated with human phenotypes. The …

Intergenic disease-associated regions are abundant in novel transcripts

N Bartonicek, MB Clark, XC Quek, JR Torpy… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Genotyping of large populations through genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) has successfully identified many genomic variants associated with traits or disease …

scGWAS: landscape of trait-cell type associations by integrating single-cell transcriptomics-wide and genome-wide association studies

P Jia, R Hu, F Yan, Y Dai, Z Zhao - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background The rapid accumulation of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data
presents unique opportunities to decode the genetically mediated cell-type specificity in …

SURGE: uncovering context-specific genetic-regulation of gene expression from single-cell RNA sequencing using latent-factor models

BJ Strober, K Tayeb, J Popp, G Qi, MG Gordon… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Genetic regulation of gene expression is a complex process, with genetic effects known to
vary across cellular contexts such as cell types and environmental conditions. We …

Genetic and epigenetic contribution to complex traits

H Kilpinen, ET Dermitzakis - Human molecular genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Much of the recent advances in functional genomics owe to developments in next-
generation sequencing technology, which has contributed to the exponential increase of …

An analytical framework for decoding cell type-specific genetic variation of gene regulation

Y Xiao, J Wang, J Li, P Zhang, J Li, Y Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A deeper understanding of genetic regulation and functional mechanisms underlying
genetic associations with complex traits and diseases is impeded by cellular heterogeneity …

Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases

M Kanai, M Akiyama, A Takahashi, N Matoba… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Clinical measurements can be viewed as useful intermediate phenotypes to promote
understanding of complex human diseases. To acquire comprehensive insights into the …