Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

Genetic impacts on DNA methylation: research findings and future perspectives

S Villicaña, JT Bell - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Multiple recent studies highlight that genetic variants can have strong impacts on a
significant proportion of the human DNA methylome. Methylation quantitative trait loci, or …

The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions

N Rahmioglu, S Mortlock, M Ghiasi, PL Møller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 …

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 …

Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …

[HTML][HTML] A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity

DJ Ahern, Z Ai, M Ainsworth, C Allan, A Allcock… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Treatment of severe COVID-19 is currently limited by clinical heterogeneity and incomplete
description of specific immune biomarkers. We present here a comprehensive multi-omic …

Comprehensive functional genomic resource and integrative model for the human brain

D Wang, S Liu, J Warrell, H Won, X Shi, FCP Navarro… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Strong genetic associations have been found for a number of psychiatric
disorders. However, understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms remains …

Global impact of unproductive splicing on human gene expression

B Fair, CF Buen Abad Najar, J Zhao, S Lozano… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Alternative splicing (AS) in human genes is widely viewed as a mechanism for enhancing
proteomic diversity. AS can also impact gene expression levels without increasing protein …

Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation

C Roselli, MD Chaffin, LC Weng, S Aeschbacher… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide and has a complex
heritability. We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies …