Monogenic diabetes

A Bonnefond, R Unnikrishnan, A Doria… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Monogenic diabetes includes several clinical conditions generally characterized by early-
onset diabetes, such as neonatal diabetes, maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) …

Mendelian inheritance revisited: dominance and recessiveness in medical genetics

J Zschocke, PH Byers, AOM Wilkie - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the consequences of genotype for phenotype (which ranges from molecule-
level effects to whole-organism traits) is at the core of genetic diagnostics in medicine. Many …

UK Biobank release and systematic evaluation of optimised polygenic risk scores for 53 diseases and quantitative traits

DJ Thompson, D Wells, S Selzam, I Peneva, R Moore… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
We present and assess the UK Biobank (UKB) Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Release, a set of
PRSs for 28 diseases and 25 quantitative traits being made available on the individuals in …

[HTML][HTML] Incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity: from clinical studies to population cohorts

R Kingdom, CF Wright - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The same genetic variant found in different individuals can cause a range of diverse
phenotypes, from no discernible clinical phenotype to severe disease, even among related …

Sequencing and characterizing short tandem repeats in the human genome

HA Tanudisastro, IW Deveson, H Dashnow… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are highly polymorphic sequences throughout the human
genome that are composed of repeated copies of a 1–6-bp motif. Over 1 million variable …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced penetrance of MODY-associated HNF1A/HNF4A variants but not GCK variants in clinically unselected cohorts

UL Mirshahi, K Colclough, CF Wright, AR Wood… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
The true prevalence and penetrance of monogenic disease variants are often not known
because of clinical-referral ascertainment bias. We comprehensively assess the penetrance …

A combined polygenic score of 21,293 rare and 22 common variants improves diabetes diagnosis based on hemoglobin A1C levels

P Dornbos, R Koesterer, A Ruttenburg, T Nguyen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGSs) combine the effects of common genetic variants, to predict risk or
treatment strategies for complex diseases,,,–. Adding rare variation to PGSs has largely …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic and genetic classification of diabetes

AJ Deutsch, E Ahlqvist, MS Udler - Diabetologia, 2022 - Springer
The historical subclassification of diabetes into predominantly types 1 and 2 is well
appreciated to inadequately capture the heterogeneity seen in patient presentations …

Genetically transitional disease: a new concept in genomic medicine

Q Yao, P Gorevic, B Shen, G Gibson - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Traditional classification of genetic diseases as monogenic and polygenic has lagged far
behind scientific progress. In this opinion article, we propose and define a new terminology …

[HTML][HTML] The individual and global impact of copy-number variants on complex human traits

C Auwerx, M Lepamets, MC Sadler, M Patxot… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
The impact of copy-number variations (CNVs) on complex human traits remains
understudied. We called CNVs in 331,522 UK Biobank participants and performed genome …