[HTML][HTML] Transcriptome-wide association studies: recent advances in methods, applications and available databases

J Mai, M Lu, Q Gao, J Zeng, J Xiao - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association study has identified fruitful variants impacting heritable traits.
Nevertheless, identifying critical genes underlying those significant variants has been a …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry and multi-trait genome-wide association meta-analyses inform clinical risk prediction for systemic lupus erythematosus

C Khunsriraksakul, Q Li, H Markus, MT Patrick… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus is a heritable autoimmune disease that predominantly affects
young women. To improve our understanding of genetic etiology, we conduct multi-ancestry …

The landscape of the methodology in drug repurposing using human genomic data: a systematic review

L Wang, Y Lu, D Li, Y Zhou, L Yu… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The process of drug development is expensive and time-consuming. In contrast, drug
repurposing can be introduced to clinical practice more quickly and at a reduced cost. Over …

A multi-tissue, splicing-based joint transcriptome-wide association study identifies susceptibility genes for breast cancer

G Gao, J McClellan, AN Barbeira, PN Fiorica… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Splicing-based transcriptome-wide association studies (splicing-TWASs) of breast cancer
have the potential to identify susceptibility genes. However, existing splicing-TWASs test the …

NCH-DDA: Neighborhood contrastive learning heterogeneous network for drug–disease association prediction

P Zhang, C Che, B Jin, J Yuan, R Li, Y Zhu - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Exploring new therapeutic diseases for existing drugs plays an essential role in reducing
drug development costs. However, existing methods for predicting drug–disease association …

[HTML][HTML] Smoking-related dysregulation of plasma circulating microRNAs: the Rotterdam study

I Karabegović, SCE Maas, Y Shuai, MA Ikram… - Human Genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression.
Differential miRNA expression, which is widely shown to be associated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic imputation of kidney transcriptome, proteome and multi-omics illuminates new blood pressure and hypertension targets

X Xu, C Khunsriraksakul, JM Eales, S Rubin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic mechanisms of blood pressure (BP) regulation remain poorly defined. Using kidney-
specific epigenomic annotations and 3D genome information we generated and validated …

Multi-ancestry meta-analysis of tobacco use disorder identifies 461 potential risk genes and reveals associations with multiple health outcomes

S Toikumo, MV Jennings, BK Pham, H Lee… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Tobacco use disorder (TUD) is the most prevalent substance use disorder in the world.
Genetic factors influence smoking behaviours and although strides have been made using …

Genetic and molecular architecture of complex traits

T Lappalainen, YI Li, S Ramachandran, A Gusev - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Human genetics has emerged as one of the most dynamic areas of biology, with a
broadening societal impact. In this review, we discuss recent achievements, ongoing efforts …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry meta-analysis of tobacco use disorder prioritizes novel candidate risk genes and reveals associations with numerous health outcomes

S Toikumo, MV Jennings, BK Pham, H Lee, TT Mallard… - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tobacco use disorder (TUD) is the most prevalent substance use disorder in the world.
Genetic factors influence smoking behaviors, and although strides have been made using …