Single-cell eQTL analysis of activated T cell subsets reveals activation and cell type–dependent effects of disease-risk variants

BJ Schmiedel, C Gonzalez-Colin, V Fajardo… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The impact of genetic variants on cells challenged in biologically relevant contexts has not
been fully explored. Here, we activated CD4+ T cells from 89 healthy donors and performed …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry meta-analysis of asthma identifies novel associations and highlights the value of increased power and diversity

K Tsuo, W Zhou, Y Wang, M Kanai, S Namba, R Gupta… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Asthma is a complex disease that varies widely in prevalence across populations. The
extent to which genetic variation contributes to these disparities is unclear, as the genetics …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering the impact of genetic variation on human polyadenylation using APARENT2

J Linder, SE Koplik, A Kundaje, G Seelig - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background 3′-end processing by cleavage and polyadenylation is an important and finely
tuned regulatory process during mRNA maturation. Numerous genetic variants are known to …

[HTML][HTML] Methods and insights from single-cell expression quantitative trait loci

JB Kang, A Raveane, A Nathan… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advancements in single-cell technologies have enabled expression quantitative trait
locus (eQTL) analysis across many individuals at single-cell resolution. Compared with bulk …

Interaction molecular QTL mapping discovers cellular and environmental modifiers of genetic regulatory effects

S Kasela, F Aguet, S Kim-Hellmuth, BC Brown… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Bulk-tissue molecular quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been the starting point for
interpreting disease-associated variants, and context-specific QTLs show particular …

[HTML][HTML] eQTL Catalogue 2023: New datasets, X chromosome QTLs, and improved detection and visualisation of transcript-level QTLs

N Kerimov, R Tambets, JD Hayhurst, I Rahu… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The eQTL Catalogue is an open database of uniformly processed human molecular
quantitative trait loci (QTLs). We are continuously updating the resource to further increase …

[HTML][HTML] The whole blood transcriptional regulation landscape in 465 COVID-19 infected samples from Japan COVID-19 Task Force

QS Wang, R Edahiro, H Namkoong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a recently-emerged infectious disease
that has caused millions of deaths, where comprehensive understanding of disease …

Tissue-specific enhancer–gene maps from multimodal single-cell data identify causal disease alleles

S Sakaue, K Weinand, S Isaac, KK Dey, K Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Translating genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci into causal variants and genes
requires accurate cell-type-specific enhancer–gene maps from disease-relevant tissues …

Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation

J Linder, D Srivastava, H Yuan, V Agarwal, DR Kelley - Biorxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Sequence-based machine learning models trained on genome-scale biochemical assays
improve our ability to interpret genetic variants by providing functional predictions describing …

[HTML][HTML] The genetic basis of autoimmunity seen through the lens of T cell functional traits

KA Lagattuta, HL Park, L Rumker, K Ishigaki… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Autoimmune disease heritability is enriched in T cell-specific regulatory regions of the
genome. Modern-day T cell datasets now enable association studies between single …