Recent advances and challenges of rare variant association analysis in the biobank sequencing era

W Chen, BJ Coombes, NB Larson - Frontiers in genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Causal variants for rare genetic diseases are often rare in the general population. Rare
variants may also contribute to common complex traits and can have much larger per-allele …

Public platform with 39,472 exome control samples enables association studies without genotype sharing

M Artomov, AA Loboda, MN Artyomov, MJ Daly - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Acquiring a sufficiently powered cohort of control samples matched to a case sample can be
time-consuming or, in some cases, impossible. Accordingly, an ability to leverage genetic …

Identification of TCF3 germline variants in pediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

C Escherich, W Chen, S Miyamoto… - Blood …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
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Genetic architecture of oral glucose-stimulated insulin release provides biological insights into type 2 diabetes aetiology

AL Madsen, S Bonàs-Guarch, S Gheibi, R Prasad… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The genetics of β-cell function (BCF) offer valuable insights into the aetiology of type 2
diabetes (T2D),. Previous studies have expanded the catalogue of BCF genetic associations …

Germ line genetic NBN variation and predisposition to B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children

CS Escherich, W Chen, Y Li, W Yang, R Nishii, Z Li… - Blood, 2024 - ashpublications.org
Biallelic mutation in the DNA-damage repair gene NBN is the genetic cause of Nijmegen
breakage syndrome, which is associated with predisposition to lymphoid malignancies …

Deciphering novel TCF4-driven mechanisms underlying a common triplet repeat expansion-mediated disease

N Bhattacharyya, N Chai, NJ Hafford-Tear… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) is an age-related cause of vision loss, and the
most common repeat expansion-mediated disease in humans characterised to date. Up to …

Germline landscape of RPA1, RPA2 and RPA3 variants in pediatric malignancies: identification of RPA1 as a novel cancer predisposition candidate gene

R Sharma, N Oak, W Chen, R Gogal… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Replication Protein A (RPA) is single-strand DNA binding protein that plays a key role in the
replication and repair of DNA. RPA is a heterotrimer made of 3 subunits–RPA1, RPA2, and …

Genetic assessment of pathogenic germline alterations in lysosomal genes among Asian patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Y Koh, H Kim, SY Joo, S Song, YH Choi… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Lysosomes are closely linked to autophagic activity, which plays a vital role in
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) biology. The survival of PDAC patients is still …

Understanding Parkinson disease in Spain: Genetic and clinical insights

P Gómez‐Garre, M Martín‐Bórnez… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Parkinson disease (PD) is a complex and heterogeneous
neurodegenerative disorder with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, determined by …

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