Computational principles and challenges in single-cell data integration

R Argelaguet, ASE Cuomo, O Stegle… - Nature biotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
The development of single-cell multimodal assays provides a powerful tool for investigating
multiple dimensions of cellular heterogeneity, enabling new insights into development …

Over 1000 tools reveal trends in the single-cell RNA-seq analysis landscape

L Zappia, FJ Theis - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Recent years have seen a revolution in single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq)
technologies, datasets, and analysis methods. Since 2016, the scRNA-tools database has …

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 …

Cell-type-specific cis-eQTLs in eight human brain cell types identify novel risk genes for psychiatric and neurological disorders

J Bryois, D Calini, W Macnair, L Foo, E Urich… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To date, most expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies, which investigate how genetic
variants contribute to gene expression, have been performed in heterogeneous brain …

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Single-cell eQTL models reveal dynamic T cell state dependence of disease loci

A Nathan, S Asgari, K Ishigaki, C Valencia, T Amariuta… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Non-coding genetic variants may cause disease by modulating gene expression. However,
identifying these expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) is complicated by differences in …

Brain Chimeroids reveal individual susceptibility to neurotoxic triggers

N Antón-Bolaños, I Faravelli, T Faits, S Andreadis… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Interindividual genetic variation affects the susceptibility to and progression of many
diseases,. However, efforts to study how individual human brains differ in normal …

Where are the disease-associated eQTLs?

BD Umans, A Battle, Y Gilad - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Most disease-associated variants, although located in putatively regulatory regions, do not
have detectable effects on gene expression. One explanation could be that we have not …

Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

A reference human induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies

CB Pantazis, A Yang, E Lara, JA McDonough… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines are a powerful tool for studying
development and disease, but the considerable phenotypic variation between lines makes it …