COVID-19 annual update: a narrative review

M Biancolella, VL Colona, L Luzzatto, JL Watt… - Human genomics, 2023 - Springer
Three and a half years after the pandemic outbreak, now that WHO has formally declared
that the emergency is over, COVID-19 is still a significant global issue. Here, we focus on …

Omics-based investigations of breast cancer

AN Neagu, D Whitham, P Bruno, H Morrissiey… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer (BC) is characterized by an extensive genotypic and phenotypic
heterogeneity. In-depth investigations into the molecular bases of BC phenotypes …

A joint transcriptome-wide association study across multiple tissues identifies candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes

G Gao, PN Fiorica, J McClellan, AN Barbeira… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 200 genomic loci for
breast cancer risk, but specific causal genes in most of these loci have not been identified. In …

A proteome-wide association study identifies putative causal proteins for breast cancer risk

T Zhao, S Xu, J Ping, G Jia, Y Dou, JE Henry… - British Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200
breast cancer risk-associated genetic loci, yet the causal genes and biological mechanisms …

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 …

Refining breast cancer genetic risk and biology through multi-ancestry fine-mapping analyses of 192 risk regions

G Jia, Z Chen, J Ping, Q Cai, R Tao, C Li, JA Bauer… - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified approximately 200 genetic risk loci for
breast cancer, but the causal variants and target genes are mostly unknown. We sought to …

Identification of target proteins for breast cancer genetic risk loci and blood risk biomarkers in a large study by integrating genomic and proteomic data

G Jia, Y Yang, J Ping, S Xu, L Liu, X Guo… - … journal of cancer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified around 200 loci associated with
breast cancer risk. However, protein targets for these loci remain largely unknown …

Integrating muti-omics data to identify tissue-specific DNA methylation biomarkers for cancer risk

Y Yang, Y Chen, S Xu, X Guo, G Jia, J Ping… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The relationship between tissue-specific DNA methylation and cancer risk remains
inadequately elucidated. Leveraging resources from the Genotype-Tissue Expression …

[HTML][HTML] Using genome and transcriptome data from African-ancestry female participants to identify putative breast cancer susceptibility genes

J Ping, G Jia, Q Cai, X Guo, R Tao… - Nature …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
African-ancestry (AA) participants are underrepresented in genetics research. Here, we
conducted a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) in AA female participants to …

Expression-and splicing-based multi-tissue transcriptome-wide association studies identified multiple genes for breast cancer by estrogen-receptor status

JC McClellan, JL Li, G Gao, D Huo - Breast Cancer Research, 2024 - Springer
Background Although several transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) have been
performed to identify genes associated with overall breast cancer (BC) risk, only a few TWAS …