[HTML][HTML] Unraveling hematopoiesis through the lens of genomics

LA Liggett, VG Sankaran - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Hematopoiesis has long served as a paradigm of stem cell biology and tissue homeostasis.
In the past decade, the genomics revolution has ushered in powerful new methods for …

[PDF][PDF] Trans-ethnic and ancestry-specific blood-cell genetics in 746,667 individuals from 5 global populations

MH Chen, LM Raffield, A Mousas, S Sakaue… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Most loci identified by GWASs have been found in populations of European ancestry (EUR).
In trans-ethnic meta-analyses for 15 hematological traits in 746,667 participants, including …

[PDF][PDF] Loss-of-function myeloperoxidase mutations are associated with increased neutrophil counts and pustular skin disease

M Vergnano, M Mockenhaupt… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
The identification of disease alleles underlying human autoinflammatory diseases can
provide important insights into the mechanisms that maintain neutrophil homeostasis. Here …

In the blood: connecting variant to function in human hematopoiesis

SK Nandakumar, X Liao, VG Sankaran - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic variants
associated with a range of human diseases and traits. However, understanding the …

Learning polygenic scores for human blood cell traits

Y Xu, D Vuckovic, SC Ritchie, P Akbari, T Jiang… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Polygenic scores (PGSs) for blood cell traits can be constructed using summary statistics
from genome-wide association studies. As the selection of variants and the modelling of …

Exploring the genetic basis of blood cell traits

D Clyde - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
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Low lymphocyte count is a risk factor for Parkinson's disease

MP Jensen, BM Jacobs, R Dobson, S Bandres-Ciga… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Importance Biomarkers for the early detection of Parkinson's disease (PD) are needed.
Patients with PD display differences in peripheral blood biomarkers of immune function …

find-tfbs: a tool to identify functional non-coding variants associated with complex human traits using open chromatin maps and phased whole-genome sequences

SM de Bellefon, F Thibord, PL Auer, J Blangero… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Motivation Whole-genome DNA sequencing (WGS) enables the discovery of non-coding
variants, but tools are lacking to prioritize the subset that functionally impacts human …

Core gene identification using gene expression

A Claringbould - 2020 - research.rug.nl
While humans share most of their genetic code with one another, small differences in the
DNA can have an impact on an individual's risk of disease. Common genetic variants exert …

[PDF][PDF] Low lymphocyte count is a risk factor for Parkinson's disease

A Noyce - scholar.archive.org
Low lymphocyte count is a risk factor for Parkinson’s disease Page 1 1 Low lymphocyte count is
a risk factor for Parkinson’s disease Melanie P Jensen (MBBS)*1, Benjamin Meir Jacobs …