Lipoprotein (a) in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and aortic stenosis: a European Atherosclerosis Society consensus statement

F Kronenberg, S Mora, ESG Stroes… - European heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract This 2022 European Atherosclerosis Society lipoprotein (a)[Lp (a)] consensus
statement updates evidence for the role of Lp (a) in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease …

[HTML][HTML] Lipoprotein (a) beyond the kringle IV repeat polymorphism: the complexity of genetic variation in the LPA gene

S Coassin, F Kronenberg - Atherosclerosis, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract High lipoprotein (a)[Lp (a)] concentrations are one of the most important genetically
determined risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Lp (a) concentrations are an enigmatic …

[HTML][HTML] A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

L Yengo, S Vedantam, E Marouli, J Sidorenko, E Bartell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–
50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and …

[HTML][HTML] Biobank-scale inference of ancestral recombination graphs enables genealogical analysis of complex traits

BC Zhang, A Biddanda, ÁF Gunnarsson, F Cooper… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide genealogies compactly represent the evolutionary history of a set of genomes
and inferring them from genetic data has the potential to facilitate a wide range of analyses …

Long-read sequencing of 3,622 Icelanders provides insight into the role of structural variants in human diseases and other traits

D Beyter, H Ingimundardottir, A Oddsson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing (LRS) promises to improve the characterization of structural variants
(SVs). We generated LRS data from 3,622 Icelanders and identified a median of 22,636 SVs …

Sequencing and characterizing short tandem repeats in the human genome

HA Tanudisastro, IW Deveson, H Dashnow… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are highly polymorphic sequences throughout the human
genome that are composed of repeated copies of a 1–6-bp motif. Over 1 million variable …

[HTML][HTML] Repetitive DNA sequence detection and its role in the human genome

X Liao, W Zhu, J Zhou, H Li, X Xu, B Zhang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Repetitive DNA sequences playing critical roles in driving evolution, inducing variation, and
regulating gene expression. In this review, we summarized the definition, arrangement, and …

[HTML][HTML] A concerted neuron–astrocyte program declines in ageing and schizophrenia

E Ling, J Nemesh, M Goldman, N Kamitaki, N Reed… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Human brains vary across people and over time; such variation is not yet understood in
cellular terms. Here we describe a relationship between people's cortical neurons and …

Lipoprotein (a) and ethnicities

A Mehta, V Jain, A Saeed, JJ Saseen, M Gulati… - Atherosclerosis, 2022 - Elsevier
The initial studies focusing on lipoprotein (a)[Lp (a)] and its role in atherosclerotic
cardiovascular disease were conducted exclusively in Whites. Subsequently, multiple large …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis fine-mapping is often miscalibrated at single-variant resolution

M Kanai, R Elzur, W Zhou, KHH Wu, H Rasheed… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Meta-analysis is pervasively used to combine multiple genome-wide association studies
(GWASs). Fine-mapping of meta-analysis studies is typically performed as in a single-cohort …