Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

Variant interpretation using population databases: Lessons from gnomAD

S Gudmundsson, M Singer‐Berk, NA Watts… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reference population databases are an essential tool in variant and gene interpretation.
Their use guides the identification of pathogenic variants amidst the sea of benign variation …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

A Okbay, Y Wu, N Wang, H Jayashankar, M Bennett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment (EA) in a
sample of~ 3 million individuals and identify 3,952 approximately uncorrelated genome …

Global detection of human variants and isoforms by deep proteome sequencing

P Sinitcyn, AL Richards, RJ Weatheritt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
An average shotgun proteomics experiment detects approximately 10,000 human proteins
from a single sample. However, individual proteins are typically identified by peptide …

Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

Writing group Writing group leaders Pathak Gita A. 6 … - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic make-up of an individual contributes to the susceptibility and response to viral
infection. Although environmental, clinical and social factors have a role in the chance of …

High-coverage whole-genome sequencing of the expanded 1000 Genomes Project cohort including 602 trios

M Byrska-Bishop, US Evani, X Zhao, AO Basile… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) is the largest fully open resource of whole-
genome sequencing (WGS) data consented for public distribution without access or use …

Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation

P Ebert, PA Audano, Q Zhu, B Rodriguez-Martin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The characterization of the full spectrum of genetic variation is critical to
understanding human health and disease. Recent technological advances have made it …

Histopathologic and proteogenomic heterogeneity reveals features of clear cell renal cell carcinoma aggressiveness

Y Li, TSM Lih, SM Dhanasekaran, R Mannan, L Chen… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCCs) represent∼ 75% of RCC cases and account for
most RCC-associated deaths. Inter-and intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) results in varying …

[HTML][HTML] Probable pangolin origin of SARS-CoV-2 associated with the COVID-19 outbreak

T Zhang, Q Wu, Z Zhang - Current biology, 2020 - cell.com
An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus
(SARS-CoV-2) began in the city of Wuhan in China and has widely spread worldwide …

Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype

D Kim, JM Paggi, C Park, C Bennett… - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
The human reference genome represents only a small number of individuals, which limits its
usefulness for genotyping. We present a method named HISAT2 (hierarchical indexing for …