Prospective study design and data analysis in UK Biobank

NE Allen, B Lacey, DA Lawlor, JP Pell… - Science Translational …, 2024 - science.org
Population-based prospective studies, such as UK Biobank, are valuable for generating and
testing hypotheses about the potential causes of human disease. We describe how UK …

RNA‐binding proteins in autoimmunity: From genetics to molecular biology

V Lodde, M Floris, E Zoroddu… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Autoimmune diseases (ADs) are chronic pathologies generated by the loss of immune
tolerance to the body's own cells and tissues. There is growing recognition that RNA …

PROBER identifies proteins associated with programmable sequence-specific DNA in living cells

S Mondal, M Ramanathan, W Miao, RM Meyers… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA–protein interactions mediate physiologic gene regulation and may be altered by DNA
variants linked to polygenic disease. To enhance the speed and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) …

[PDF][PDF] Clotting factor genes are associated with preeclampsia in high-altitude pregnant women in the Peruvian Andes

MA Nieves-Colón, KMB Rivera, K Sandoval… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Preeclampsia is a multi-organ complication of pregnancy characterized by sudden
hypertension and proteinuria that is among the leading causes of preterm delivery and …

[HTML][HTML] Two decades of association mapping: Insights on disease resistance in major crops

SS Gangurde, A Xavier, YD Naik, UC Jha… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change across the globe has an impact on the occurrence, prevalence, and severity
of plant diseases. About 30% of yield losses in major crops are due to plant diseases; …

Toward identification of functional sequences and variants in noncoding DNA

R Monti, U Ohler - Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the noncoding part of the genome, which encodes gene regulation, is
necessary to identify genetic mechanisms of disease and translate findings from genome …

Graph convolutional network-based feature selection for high-dimensional and low-sample size data

C Chen, ST Weiss, YY Liu - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Feature selection is a powerful dimension reduction technique which selects a
subset of relevant features for model construction. Numerous feature selection methods …

[HTML][HTML] Invited review: Good practices in genome-wide association studies to identify candidate sequence variants in dairy cattle

G Sahana, Z Cai, MP Sanchez, AC Bouwman… - Journal of Dairy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Genotype data from dairy cattle selection programs have greatly facilitated GWAS to identify
variants related to economic traits. Results can enhance the accuracy of genomic prediction …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of COVID-19 outcomes reveals novel host genetic risk loci in the Serbian population

M Zecevic, N Kotur, B Ristivojevic, V Gasic… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Host genetics, an important contributor to the COVID-19 clinical susceptibility and severity,
currently is the focus of multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in populations …

How can clinical safety and efficacy concerns in stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury be overcome?

N Hejrati, R Wong, M Khazaei… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Spinal cord injury (SCI) can lead to severe neurological dysfunction. Despite
scientific and medical advances, clinically effective regenerative therapies including stem …