Cancer transcriptome profiling at the juncture of clinical translation

M Cieślik, AM Chinnaiyan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Methodological breakthroughs over the past four decades have repeatedly revolutionized
transcriptome profiling. Using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), it has now become possible to …

The roles of RNA processing in translating genotype to phenotype

KS Manning, TA Cooper - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
A goal of human genetics studies is to determine the mechanisms by which genetic variation
produces phenotypic differences that affect human health. Efforts in this respect have …

An expanded genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Europeans

RA Scott, LJ Scott, R Mägi, L Marullo, KJ Gaulton… - Diabetes, 2017 - Am Diabetes Assoc
To characterize type 2 diabetes (T2D)-associated variation across the allele frequency
spectrum, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data from 26,676 T2D …

An atlas of alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci contributing to complex trait and disease heritability

L Li, KL Huang, Y Gao, Y Cui, G Wang, ND Elrod, Y Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of noncoding variants
associated with human traits and diseases. However, the functional interpretation of these …

Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies celltype-specific cis-eQTLs and co-expression QTLs

MGP Van Der Wijst, H Brugge, DH De Vries, P Deelen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of genetic variants that are
associated with disease. Most of these variants have small effect sizes, but their downstream …

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

HJ Westra, MJ Peters, T Esko, H Yaghootkar… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Identifying the downstream effects of disease-associated SNPs is challenging. To help
overcome this problem, we performed expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) meta …

[HTML][HTML] From genome to function by studying eQTLs

HJ Westra, L Franke - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-molecular basis …, 2014 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have shown a large number of genetic variants
to be associated with complex diseases. The identification of the causal variant within an …

Cell specific eQTL analysis without sorting cells

HJ Westra, D Arends, T Esko, MJ Peters… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The functional consequences of trait associated SNPs are often investigated using
expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) mapping. While trait-associated variants may …

Identification of common genetic variants controlling transcript isoform variation in human whole blood

X Zhang, R Joehanes, BH Chen, T Huan, S Ying… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
An understanding of the genetic variation underlying transcript splicing is essential to dissect
the molecular mechanisms of common disease. The available evidence from splicing …

[HTML][HTML] Refined mapping of autoimmune disease associated genetic variants with gene expression suggests an important role for non-coding RNAs

I Ricaño-Ponce, DV Zhernakova, P Deelen, O Luo… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association and fine-mapping studies in 14 autoimmune diseases (AID) have
implicated more than 250 loci in one or more of these diseases. As more than 90% of AID …