Impact of Rare Non-coding Variants on Human Diseases through Alternative Polyadenylation Outliers

L Li, X Zou, Z Zhao, Y Chen, K Xiong, Z Wang, S Chen… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Although rare non-coding variants (RVs) play crucial roles in human complex traits and
diseases, understanding their functional mechanisms and identifying those most closely …

Alternative polyadenylation-associated loci interpret human traits and diseases

Z Fang, S Li - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA)-associated genetic variants have been proposed to
impact diverse human phenotypes and disorders. In a recent study, Li et al. established a …

Population‐scale genetic control of alternative polyadenylation and its association with human diseases

L Li, Y Li, X Zou, F Peng, Y Cui, EJ Wagner… - Quantitative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of
genomic non‐coding variants statistically associated with many human traits and diseases …

Genetic basis of alternative polyadenylation is an emerging molecular phenotype for human traits and diseases

L Li, Y Gao, F Peng, EJ Wagner, W Li - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of non-coding variants that are
statistically associated with human traits and diseases. However, functional interpretation of …

ipaQTL-atlas: an atlas of intronic polyadenylation quantitative trait loci across human tissues

X Ma, S Cheng, R Ding, Z Zhao, XD Zou… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Functional interpretation of disease-associated non-coding variants remains a significant
challenge in the post-GWAS era. Our recent study has identified 3′ UTR alternative …

An atlas of alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci contributing to complex trait and disease heritability

L Li, KL Huang, Y Gao, Y Cui, G Wang, ND Elrod, Y Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of noncoding variants
associated with human traits and diseases. However, the functional interpretation of these …

Large-scale alternative polyadenylation (APA)-wide association studies to identify putative susceptibility genes in human common cancers

X Guo, J Ping, Y Yang, X Shu, X Shu, W Wanqing… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) modulates mRNA processing in the 3 untranslated
regions (3UTR), which affect mRNA stability and translation efficiency. Here, we build …

Systematic evaluation of the effect of polyadenylation signal variants on the expression of disease-associated genes

M Chen, R Wei, G Wei, M Xu, Z Su, C Zhao… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) within polyadenylation signals (PASs), a specific six-
nucleotide sequence required for mRNA maturation, can impair RNA-level gene expression …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative polyadenylation patterns for novel gene discovery and classification in cancer

O Begik, M Oyken, TC Alican, T Can, AE Erson-Bensan - Neoplasia, 2017 - Elsevier
Certain aspects of diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of cancer patients are still important
challenges to be addressed. Therefore, we propose a pipeline to uncover patterns of …

3′ aQTL-atlas: an atlas of 3′ UTR alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci across human normal tissues

Y Cui, F Peng, D Wang, Y Li, JS Li, L Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of non-coding single-
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with human traits and diseases. However …