Recent advances in artificial intelligence, mechanistic models, and speed breeding offer exciting opportunities for precise and accelerated genomics‐assisted …

JA Bhat, X Feng, ZA Mir, A Raina… - Physiologia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Given the challenges of population growth and climate change, there is an urgent need to
expedite the development of high‐yielding stress‐tolerant crop cultivars. While traditional …

The harmonic mean p-value for combining dependent tests

DJ Wilson - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Analysis of “big data” frequently involves statistical comparison of millions of competing
hypotheses to discover hidden processes underlying observed patterns of data, for example …

Using zebrafish to study skeletal genomics

RY Kwon, CJ Watson, D Karasik - Bone, 2019 - Elsevier
While genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revolutionized our understanding of
the genetic architecture of skeletal diseases, animal models are required to identify causal …

Testing and controlling for horizontal pleiotropy with probabilistic Mendelian randomization in transcriptome-wide association studies

Z Yuan, H Zhu, P Zeng, S Yang, S Sun, C Yang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Integrating results from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and gene expression
studies through transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) has the potential to shed light …

A linear mixed-model approach to study multivariate gene–environment interactions

R Moore, FP Casale, M Jan Bonder, D Horta… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Different exposures, including diet, physical activity, or external conditions can contribute to
genotype–environment interactions (G× E). Although high-dimensional environmental data …

Large-scale mutation in the evolution of a gene complex for cryptic coloration

R Villoutreix, CF de Carvalho, V Soria-Carrasco… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The types of mutations affecting adaptation in the wild are only beginning to be understood.
In particular, whether structural changes shape adaptation by suppressing recombination or …

[HTML][HTML] A unified framework for variance component estimation with summary statistics in genome-wide association studies

X Zhou - The annals of applied statistics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Linear mixed models (LMMs) are among the most commonly used tools for genetic
association studies. However, the standard method for estimating variance components in …

A robust method uncovers significant context-specific heritability in diverse complex traits

A Dahl, K Nguyen, N Cai, MJ Gandal, J Flint… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Gene-environment interactions (GxE) can be fundamental in applications ranging from
functional genomics to precision medicine and is a conjectured source of substantial …

A gene-set enrichment and protein–protein interaction network-based GWAS with regulatory SNPs identifies candidate genes and pathways associated with carcass …

K Srikanth, SH Lee, KY Chung, JE Park, GW Jang… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Non-synonymous SNPs and protein coding SNPs within the promoter region of genes
(regulatory SNPs) might have a significant effect on carcass traits. Imputed sequence level …

Fast and flexible linear mixed models for genome-wide genetics

DE Runcie, L Crawford - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Linear mixed effect models are powerful tools used to account for population structure in
genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and estimate the genetic architecture of complex …