Genetics of diabetes mellitus and diabetes complications

JB Cole, JC Florez - Nature reviews nephrology, 2020 - nature.com
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases worldwide, projected to affect 693 million
adults by 2045. Devastating macrovascular complications (cardiovascular disease) and …

Deconstructing a syndrome: genomic insights into PCOS causal mechanisms and classification

M Dapas, A Dunaif - Endocrine reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common disorders in women of
reproductive age, affecting up to 15% worldwide, depending on the diagnostic criteria …

Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation

P Ebert, PA Audano, Q Zhu, B Rodriguez-Martin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The characterization of the full spectrum of genetic variation is critical to
understanding human health and disease. Recent technological advances have made it …

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 …

Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes

DJ Weiner, A Nadig, KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, BM Neale… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Both common and rare genetic variants influence complex traits and common diseases.
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …

[HTML][HTML] Regulatory genomic circuitry of human disease loci by integrative epigenomics

CA Boix, BT James, YP Park, W Meuleman, M Kellis - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Annotating the molecular basis of human disease remains an unsolved challenge, as 93%
of disease loci are non-coding and gene-regulatory annotations are highly incomplete …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

DM Howard, MJ Adams, TK Clarke, JD Hafferty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low
mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to …

Challenges and opportunities for developing more generalizable polygenic risk scores

Y Wang, K Tsuo, M Kanai, BM Neale… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate an individual's genetic likelihood of complex traits and
diseases by aggregating information across multiple genetic variants identified from genome …

[HTML][HTML] Index and biological spectrum of human DNase I hypersensitive sites

W Meuleman, A Muratov, E Rynes, J Halow, K Lee… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are generic markers of regulatory DNA,,,–and contain
genetic variations associated with diseases and phenotypic traits,–. We created high …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

SV Faraone, H Larsson - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Decades of research show that genes play an vital role in the etiology of attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its comorbidity with other disorders. Family, twin, and …