Where are the disease-associated eQTLs?

BD Umans, A Battle, Y Gilad - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Most disease-associated variants, although located in putatively regulatory regions, do not
have detectable effects on gene expression. One explanation could be that we have not …

Current advances in primate genomics: novel approaches for understanding evolution and disease

D Juan, G Santpere, JL Kelley, OE Cornejo… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Primate genomics holds the key to understanding fundamental aspects of human evolution
and disease. However, genetic diversity and functional genomics data sets are currently …

Hepatoprotective Effect of Mitochondria‐Targeted Antioxidant Mito‐TEMPO against Lipopolysaccharide‐Induced Liver Injury in Mouse

PF Wang, K Xie, YX Cao, A Zhang - Mediators of inflammation, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The liver is vulnerable to sepsis, and sepsis‐induced liver injury is closely associated with
poor survival of sepsis patients. Studies have found that the overproduction of reactive …

Ancient hybridization and strong adaptation to viruses across African vervet monkey populations

H Svardal, AJ Jasinska, C Apetrei, G Coppola… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Vervet monkeys are among the most widely distributed nonhuman primates, show
considerable phenotypic diversity, and have long been an important biomedical model for a …

Gene expression variability in human and chimpanzee populations share common determinants

BJ Fair, LE Blake, A Sarkar, BJ Pavlovic, C Cuevas… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Inter-individual variation in gene expression has been shown to be heritable and is often
associated with differences in disease susceptibility between individuals. Many studies …

A generally conserved response to hypoxia in iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes from humans and chimpanzees

MC Ward, Y Gilad - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Despite anatomical similarities, there are differences in susceptibility to cardiovascular
disease (CVD) between primates; humans are prone to myocardial ischemia, while …

Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in vervet monkeys

AJ Jasinska, A Haghani, JA Zoller, CZ Li, A Arneson… - GeroScience, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation-based biomarkers of aging have been developed for many mammals but
not yet for the vervet monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), which is a valuable non-human …

The evolution of the human DNA replication timing program

AN Bracci, A Dallmann, Q Ding… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
DNA is replicated according to a defined spatiotemporal program that is linked to both gene
regulation and genome stability. The evolutionary forces that have shaped replication timing …

Morphological variation in the genus Chlorocebus: Ecogeographic and anthropogenically mediated variation in body mass, postcranial morphology, and growth

TR Turner, CA Schmitt, JD Cramer… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Direct comparative work in morphology and growth on widely dispersed wild
primate taxa is rarely accomplished, yet critical to understanding ecogeographic variation …

A causal association of ANKRD37 with human hippocampal volume

J Xu, X Xia, Q Li, Y Dou, X Suo, Z Sun, N Liu… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Human hippocampal volume has been separately associated with single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs), DNA methylation and gene expression, but their causal …