Integration of human organoids single‐cell transcriptomic profiles and human genetics repurposes critical cell type‐specific drug targets for severe COVID‐19

Y Ma, Y Zhou, D Jiang, W Dai, J Li, C Deng… - Cell …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human organoids recapitulate the cell type diversity and function of their primary organs
holding tremendous potentials for basic and translational research. Advances in single‐cell …

Assessing the causal relationships between human blood metabolites and the risk of NAFLD: A comprehensive mendelian randomization study

Z Guo, T Zhang, Z Yun, Q Jin, X Cao, D Kong… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a liver disease associated with
obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and metabolic syndrome. The …

[HTML][HTML] ACE2 and COVID-19 Susceptibility and Severity

M Zheng - Aging and disease, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sick, male, and older populations are more vulnerable to COVID-19. However, it remains
unclear whether a common mechanism exists across different demographic characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] Mendelian randomization in pharmacogenomics: the unforeseen potentials

LQ Khasawneh, ZN Al-Mahayri, BR Ali - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Mendelian randomization (MR) is an epidemiological method that uses genetic variants to
proxy an exposure predicting its causal association with an outcome. It occupies a valuable …

The UK Biobank: A shining example of genome-wide association study science with the power to detect the murky complications of real-world epidemiology

VY Tan, NJ Timpson - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully identified thousands of
genetic variants that are reliably associated with human traits. Although GWASs are …

ELF5 is a potential respiratory epithelial cell-specific risk gene for severe COVID-19

M Pietzner, RL Chua, E Wheeler, K Jechow… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite two years of intense global research activity, host genetic factors that predispose to
a poorer prognosis of COVID-19 infection remain poorly understood. Here, we prioritise …

Ursodeoxycholic acid administration did not reduce susceptibility to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in children

T Liu, JS Wang - Liver International, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims A recent study suggested that administration of ursodeoxycholic acid
(UDCA) at dosages usually employed clinically may reduce rates of severe acute respiratory …

Systematic druggable genome-wide Mendelian randomisation identifies therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease

WM Su, XJ Gu, M Dou, QQ Duan, Z Jiang… - Journal of Neurology …, 2023 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia. Currently, there are
no effective disease-modifying treatments for AD. Mendelian randomisation (MR) has been …

Identifying actionable druggable targets for breast cancer: Mendelian randomization and population-based analyses

N Zhang, Y Li, J Sundquist, K Sundquist, J Ji - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Drug repurposing provides a cost-effective approach to address the need for
breast cancer prevention and therapeutics. We aimed to identify actionable druggable …

Host genetics of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

GS Schulert, SA Blum, RQ Cron - Current opinion in pediatrics, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Several genetic associations have been identified in individuals with severe COVID-19 and
MIS-C via various genetic approaches. Broadly speaking, COVID-19 genetic associations …