Multi-omics approaches to disease

Y Hasin, M Seldin, A Lusis - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
High-throughput technologies have revolutionized medical research. The advent of
genotyping arrays enabled large-scale genome-wide association studies and methods for …

Obesity, inflammation, toll-like receptor 4 and fatty acids

MM Rogero, PC Calder - Nutrients, 2018 - mdpi.com
Obesity leads to an inflammatory condition that is directly involved in the etiology of
cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and certain types of cancer. The classic …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
These guidelines are a consensus work of a considerable number of members of the
immunology and flow cytometry community. They provide the theory and key practical …

Co-regulatory networks of human serum proteins link genetics to disease

V Emilsson, M Ilkov, JR Lamb, N Finkel… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Proteins circulating in the blood are critical for age-related disease processes; however, the
serum proteome has remained largely unexplored. To this end, 4137 proteins covering most …

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 …

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

D Shungin, TW Winkler, DC Croteau-Chonka… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic
outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic …

Identification of candidate Parkinson disease genes by integrating genome-wide association study, expression, and epigenetic data sets

DA Kia, D Zhang, S Guelfi, C Manzoni… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Substantial genome-wide association study (GWAS) work in Parkinson disease
(PD) has led to the discovery of an increasing number of loci shown reliably to be associated …

The role of regulatory variation in complex traits and disease

FW Albert, L Kruglyak - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
We are in a phase of unprecedented progress in identifying genetic loci that cause variation
in traits ranging from growth and fitness in simple organisms to disease in humans …

Functional variants in the LRRK2 gene confer shared effects on risk for Crohn's disease and Parkinson's disease

KY Hui, H Fernandez-Hernandez, J Hu… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Crohn's disease (CD), a form of inflammatory bowel disease, has a higher prevalence in
Ashkenazi Jewish than in non-Jewish European populations. To define the role of …

Methods of integrating data to uncover genotype–phenotype interactions

MD Ritchie, ER Holzinger, R Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Recent technological advances have expanded the breadth of available omic data, from
whole-genome sequencing data, to extensive transcriptomic, methylomic and metabolomic …