Exploring opportunities for drug repurposing and precision medicine in cannabis use disorder using genetics

LA Greco, WR Reay, CV Dayas, MJ Cairns - Addiction biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cannabis use disorder (CUD) remains a significant public health issue globally, affecting up
to one in five adults who use cannabis. Despite extensive research into the molecular …

FGF20 and PGM2 variants are associated with childhood asthma in family-based whole-genome sequencing studies

J Hecker, S Chun, A Samiei, C Liu… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Asthma is a heterogeneous common respiratory disease that remains poorly
understood. The established genetic associations fail to explain the high estimated …

Implication of genetic variants in primary microRNA processing sites in the risk of multiple sclerosis

M Hecker, B Fitzner, E Putscher, M Schwartz… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous
system with a well-established genetic contribution to susceptibility. Over 200 genetic …

Single-cell analysis of human diversity in circulating immune cells

KH Kock, LM Tan, KY Han, Y Ando, D Jevapatarakul… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Lack of diversity and proportionate representation in genomics datasets and databases
contributes to inequity in healthcare outcomes globally. The relationships of human diversity …

[HTML][HTML] Oral and non-oral lichen planus show genetic heterogeneity and differential risk for autoimmune disease and oral cancer

MP Reeve, M Vehviläinen, S Luo, J Ritari… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Lichen planus (LP) is a T-cell-mediated inflammatory disease affecting squamous epithelia
in many parts of the body, most often the skin and oral mucosa. Cutaneous LP is usually …

Blood cell traits' GWAS loci colocalization with variation in PU. 1 genomic occupancy prioritizes causal noncoding regulatory variants

R Jeong, ML Bulyk - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have uncovered numerous trait-associated loci
across the human genome, most of which are located in noncoding regions, making …

Molecular Landscape of Tourette's Disorder

J Widomska, W De Witte, JK Buitelaar… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tourette's disorder (TD) is a highly heritable childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder
and is caused by a complex interplay of multiple genetic and environmental factors. Yet, the …

Genetic analysis of multiple sclerosis severity identifies a novel locus and implicates CNS resilience as a major determinant of outcome

S Baranzini, S Sawcer… - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that
results in significant neurodegeneration in the majority of those affected and is a common …

[HTML][HTML] 150 risk variants for diverticular disease of intestine prioritize cell types and enable polygenic prediction of disease susceptibility

Y Wu, SB Goleva, LB Breidenbach, M Kim… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of diverticular disease
(DivD) of intestine within 724,372 individuals and identified 150 independent genome-wide …

Sex differences in multilayer functional network topology over the course of aging in 37543 UK Biobank participants

M Mijalkov, D Veréb, O Jamialahmadi… - Network …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Aging is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders, with
considerable societal and economic implications. Healthy aging is accompanied by …