Gene regulatory network inference in the era of single-cell multi-omics

P Badia-i-Mompel, L Wessels, S Müller-Dott… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between chromatin, transcription factors and genes generates complex
regulatory circuits that can be represented as gene regulatory networks (GRNs). The study …

Molecular quantitative trait loci

F Aguet, K Alasoo, YI Li, A Battle, HK Im… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding functional effects of genetic variants is one of the key challenges in human
genetics, as much of disease-associated variation is located in non-coding regions with …

FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Population isolates such as those in Finland benefit genetic research because deleterious
alleles are often concentrated on a small number of low-frequency variants (0.1%≤ minor …

FinnGen: Unique genetic insights from combining isolated population and national health register data

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - medrxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Population isolates such as Finland provide benefits in genetic studies because the allelic
spectrum of damaging alleles in any gene is often concentrated on a small number of low …

Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets

JH Zhao, D Stacey, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating proteins have important functions in inflammation and a broad range of diseases.
To identify genetic influences on inflammation-related proteins, we conducted a genome …

Ensembl 2022

F Cunningham, JE Allen, J Allen… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ensembl (https://www. ensembl. org) is unique in its flexible infrastructure for access
to genomic data and annotation. It has been designed to efficiently deliver annotation at …

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 …

Discovery of target genes and pathways at GWAS loci by pooled single-cell CRISPR screens

JA Morris, C Caragine, Z Daniloski, J Domingo, T Barry… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most variants associated with complex traits and diseases identified by genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) map to noncoding regions of the genome with unknown effects …

An open approach to systematically prioritize causal variants and genes at all published human GWAS trait-associated loci

E Mountjoy, EM Schmidt, M Carmona… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified many variants associated with
complex traits, but identifying the causal gene (s) is a major challenge. In the present study …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide analysis of 102,084 migraine cases identifies 123 risk loci and subtype-specific risk alleles

H Hautakangas, BS Winsvold, SE Ruotsalainen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Migraine affects over a billion individuals worldwide but its genetic underpinning remains
largely unknown. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study of 102,084 …