A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …

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 …

Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity

S Gazal, O Weissbrod, F Hormozdiari, KK Dey… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) generally do not implicate
target genes, as most disease SNPs are regulatory. Many SNP-to-gene (S2G) linking …

Genomics of hypertension: the road to precision medicine

S Padmanabhan, AF Dominiczak - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
The known genetic architecture of blood pressure now comprises> 30 genes, with rare
variants resulting in monogenic forms of hypertension or hypotension and> 1,477 common …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic analysis in the age of human genome sequencing

T Lappalainen, AJ Scott, M Brandt, IM Hall - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Affordable genome sequencing technologies promise to revolutionize the field of human
genetics by enabling comprehensive studies that interrogate all classes of genome …

Polygenic enrichment distinguishes disease associations of individual cells in single-cell RNA-seq data

MJ Zhang, K Hou, KK Dey, S Sakaue, KA Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides unique insights into the pathology and
cellular origin of disease. We introduce single-cell disease relevance score (scDRS), an …

[HTML][HTML] WNT signaling and bone: lessons from skeletal dysplasias and disorders

Y Huybrechts, G Mortier, E Boudin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Skeletal dysplasias are a diverse group of heritable diseases affecting bone and cartilage
growth. Throughout the years, the molecular defect underlying many of the diseases has …

[HTML][HTML] Facial genetics: a brief overview

S Richmond, LJ Howe, S Lewis, E Stergiakouli… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Historically, craniofacial genetic research has understandably focused on identifying the
causes of craniofacial anomalies and it has only been within the last 10 years, that there has …

Scalable functional assays for the interpretation of human genetic variation

D Tabet, V Parikh, P Mali, FP Roth… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Scalable sequence–function studies have enabled the systematic analysis and cataloging of
hundreds of thousands of coding and noncoding genetic variants in the human genome …

Functional dynamic genetic effects on gene regulation are specific to particular cell types and environmental conditions

AS Findley, A Monziani, AL Richards, K Rhodes… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Genetic effects on gene expression and splicing can be modulated by cellular and
environmental factors; yet interactions between genotypes, cell type, and treatment have not …