Advancing the use of genome-wide association studies for drug repurposing

WR Reay, MJ Cairns - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed important biological insights into
complex diseases, which are broadly expected to lead to the identification of new drug …

Genome-wide analysis of human long noncoding RNAs: a provocative review

CP Ponting, W Haerty - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Do long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) contribute little or substantively to human biology? To
address how lncRNA loci and their transcripts, structures, interactions, and functions …

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource

E Sollis, A Mosaku, A Abid, A Buniello… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog (www. ebi. ac. uk/gwas) is a FAIR knowledgebase
providing detailed, structured, standardised and interoperable genome-wide association …

The next-generation Open Targets Platform: reimagined, redesigned, rebuilt

D Ochoa, A Hercules, M Carmona… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Open Targets Platform (https://platform. opentargets. org/) is an open source
resource to systematically assist drug target identification and prioritisation using publicly …

The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank

BV Halldorsson, HP Eggertsson, KHS Moore… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Detailed knowledge of how diversity in the sequence of the human genome affects
phenotypic diversity depends on a comprehensive and reliable characterization of both …

DNA methylation QTL mapping across diverse human tissues provides molecular links between genetic variation and complex traits

M Oliva, K Demanelis, Y Lu, M Chernoff, F Jasmine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies of DNA methylation (DNAm) in solid human tissues are relatively scarce; tissue-
specific characterization of DNAm is needed to understand its role in gene regulation and its …

Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

Writing group Writing group leaders Pathak Gita A. 6 … - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic make-up of an individual contributes to the susceptibility and response to viral
infection. Although environmental, clinical and social factors have a role in the chance of …

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Single-nucleus cross-tissue molecular reference maps toward understanding disease gene function

G Eraslan, E Drokhlyansky, S Anand, E Fiskin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding gene function and regulation in homeostasis and disease requires
knowledge of the cellular and tissue contexts in which genes are expressed. Here, we …

Genome-wide analyses of 200,453 individuals yield new insights into the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis

SP Kar, PM Quiros, M Gu, T Jiang, J Mitchell… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the clonal expansion of a blood stem cell and its progeny driven
by somatic driver mutations, affects over a third of people, yet remains poorly understood …