Advancing human genetics research and drug discovery through exome sequencing of the UK Biobank

JD Szustakowski, S Balasubramanian, E Kvikstad… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The UK Biobank Exome Sequencing Consortium (UKB-ESC) is a private–public
partnership between the UK Biobank (UKB) and eight biopharmaceutical companies that …

Regulatory genomic circuitry of human disease loci by integrative epigenomics

CA Boix, BT James, YP Park, W Meuleman, M Kellis - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Annotating the molecular basis of human disease remains an unsolved challenge, as 93%
of disease loci are non-coding and gene-regulatory annotations are highly incomplete …

Single-molecule genome-wide mutation profiles of cell-free DNA for non-invasive detection of cancer

DC Bruhm, D Mathios, ZH Foda, AV Annapragada… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Somatic mutations are a hallmark of tumorigenesis and may be useful for non-invasive
diagnosis of cancer. We analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 2,511 individuals in …

A human cell atlas of fetal chromatin accessibility

S Domcke, AJ Hill, RM Daza, J Cao, DR O'Day… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In recent years, the single-cell genomics field has made incredible
progress toward disentangling the cellular heterogeneity of human tissues. However, the …

Artificial intelligence in cancer target identification and drug discovery

Y You, X Lai, Y Pan, H Zheng, J Vera, S Liu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence is an advanced method to identify novel anticancer targets and discover
novel drugs from biology networks because the networks can effectively preserve and …

Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis

M Vujkovic, JM Keaton, JA Lynch, DR Miller, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated type 2 diabetes (T2D) genetic susceptibility via multi-ancestry meta-analysis
of 228,499 cases and 1,178,783 controls in the Million Veteran Program (MVP), DIAMANTE …

The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

GTEx Consortium - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project was established to characterize genetic
effects on the transcriptome across human tissues and to link these regulatory mechanisms …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

Accurate and efficient detection of gene fusions from RNA sequencing data

S Uhrig, J Ellermann, T Walther, P Burkhardt… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
The identification of gene fusions from RNA sequencing data is a routine task in cancer
research and precision oncology. However, despite the availability of many computational …

Deconstructing a syndrome: genomic insights into PCOS causal mechanisms and classification

M Dapas, A Dunaif - Endocrine reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common disorders in women of
reproductive age, affecting up to 15% worldwide, depending on the diagnostic criteria …