Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Genetic insights into the neurodevelopmental origins of schizophrenia

R Birnbaum, DR Weinberger - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder with a longstanding history of
neurobiological investigation. Although the underlying causal mechanisms remain …

Local fitness landscape of the green fluorescent protein

KS Sarkisyan, DA Bolotin, MV Meer, DR Usmanova… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Fitness landscapes, depict how genotypes manifest at the phenotypic level and form the
basis of our understanding of many areas of biology,,,,,, yet their properties remain elusive …

Research review: polygenic methods and their application to psychiatric traits

NR Wray, SH Lee, D Mehta… - Journal of child …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Despite evidence from twin and family studies for an important contribution of
genetic factors to both childhood and adult onset psychiatric disorders, identifying robustly …

Epistasis and adaptation on fitness landscapes

C Bank - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Epistasis occurs when the effect of a mutation depends on its carrier's genetic background.
Despite increasing evidence that epistasis for fitness is common, its role during evolution is …

[HTML][HTML] Bypassing negative epistasis on yield in tomato imposed by a domestication gene

S Soyk, ZH Lemmon, M Oved, J Fisher, KL Liberatore… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Selection for inflorescence architecture with improved flower production and yield is
common to many domesticated crops. However, tomato inflorescences resemble wild …

Natural variation in genome architecture among 205 Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel lines

W Huang, A Massouras, Y Inoue, J Peiffer… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP) is a community resource of
205 sequenced inbred lines, derived to improve our understanding of the effects of naturally …

Detecting epistasis in human complex traits

WH Wei, G Hemani, CS Haley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have become the focus of the statistical analysis
of complex traits in humans, successfully shedding light on several aspects of genetic …

The evolution of gene expression in cis and trans

SA Signor, SV Nuzhdin - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
There is abundant variation in gene expression between individuals, populations, and
species. The evolution of gene regulation and expression within and between species is …

Crop genome‐wide association study: a harvest of biological relevance

HJ Liu, J Yan - The Plant Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of rapid genotyping and next‐generation sequencing technologies, genome‐
wide association study (GWAS) has become a routine strategy for decoding genotype …