Alternative polyadenylation transcriptome-wide association study identifies APA-linked susceptibility genes in brain disorders

Y Cui, FJ Arnold, F Peng, D Wang, JS Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) plays an essential role in brain development; however,
current transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) largely overlook APA in nominating …

APAatlas: decoding alternative polyadenylation across human tissues

W Hong, H Ruan, Z Zhang, Y Ye, Y Liu, S Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an RNA-processing mechanism on the 3′ terminus
that generates distinct isoforms of mRNAs and/or other RNA polymerase II transcripts with …

3′ aQTL-atlas: an atlas of 3′ UTR alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci across human normal tissues

Y Cui, F Peng, D Wang, Y Li, JS Li, L Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of non-coding single-
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with human traits and diseases. However …

Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation of genes associated with protein turnover and mitochondrial function are deregulated in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ALS …

R Patel, C Brophy, M Hickling, J Neve, A Furger - BMC Medical Genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Transcriptome wide changes have been assessed extensively during the
progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Alternative polyadenylation (APA) occurs in …

ipaQTL-atlas: an atlas of intronic polyadenylation quantitative trait loci across human tissues

X Ma, S Cheng, R Ding, Z Zhao, XD Zou… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Functional interpretation of disease-associated non-coding variants remains a significant
challenge in the post-GWAS era. Our recent study has identified 3′ UTR alternative …

PolyA-miner: Accurate assessment of differential alternative poly-adenylation from 3′ Seq data using vector projections and non-negative matrix factorization

HK Yalamanchili, CE Alcott, P Ji… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Almost 70% of human genes undergo alternative polyadenylation (APA) and generate
mRNA transcripts with varying lengths, typically of the 3′ untranslated regions (UTR). APA …

APAlyzer: a bioinformatics package for analysis of alternative polyadenylation isoforms

R Wang, B Tian - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Most eukaryotic genes produce alternative polyadenylation (APA) isoforms. APA is
dynamically regulated under different growth and differentiation conditions. Here, we …

An atlas of alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci contributing to complex trait and disease heritability

L Li, KL Huang, Y Gao, Y Cui, G Wang, ND Elrod, Y Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of noncoding variants
associated with human traits and diseases. However, the functional interpretation of these …

Alternative polyadenylation alters protein dosage by switching between intronic and 3′ UTR sites

N de Prisco, C Ford, ND Elrod, W Lee, LC Tang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) creates distinct transcripts from the same gene by
cleaving the pre-mRNA at poly (A) sites that can lie within the 3′ untranslated region (3 …

Accurate transcriptome-wide identification and quantification of alternative polyadenylation from RNA-seq data with APAIQ

Y Long, B Zhang, S Tian, JJ Chan, J Zhou, Z Li… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) enables a gene to generate multiple transcripts with
different 3′ ends, which is dynamic across different cell types or conditions. Many …