Lymphoblastoid cell lines in pharmacogenomic discovery and clinical translation

HE Wheeler, ME Dolan - Pharmacogenomics, 2012 - Future Medicine
The ability to predict how an individual patient will respond to a particular treatment is the
ambitious goal of personalized medicine. The genetic make up of an individual has been …

Meta-analysis identifies common variants associated with body mass index in east Asians

W Wen, YS Cho, W Zheng, R Dorajoo, N Kato, L Qi… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Multiple genetic loci associated with obesity or body mass index (BMI) have been identified
through genome-wide association studies conducted predominantly in populations of …

Bioinformatics and variability in drug response: a protein structural perspective

JL Lahti, GW Tang, E Capriotti… - Journal of The …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Marketed drugs frequently perform worse in clinical practice than in the clinical trials on
which their approval is based. Many therapeutic compounds are ineffective for a large …

Common variants at 9p21 and 8q22 are associated with increased susceptibility to optic nerve degeneration in glaucoma

JL Wiggs, BL Yaspan, MA Hauser, JH Kang… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Optic nerve degeneration caused by glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide.
Patients affected by the normal-pressure form of glaucoma are more likely to harbor risk …

GWASdb: a database for human genetic variants identified by genome-wide association studies

MJ Li, P Wang, X Liu, EL Lim, Z Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have enabled us to identify
thousands of genetic variants (GVs) that are associated with human diseases. As next …

SNPnexus: a web server for functional annotation of novel and publicly known genetic variants (2012 update)

AZ Dayem Ullah, NR Lemoine… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Broader functional annotation of single nucleotide variations is a valuable mean for
prioritizing targets in further disease studies and large-scale genotyping projects. We …

[PDF][PDF] Imputation of exome sequence variants into population-based samples and blood-cell-trait-associated loci in African Americans: NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing …

PL Auer, JM Johnsen, AD Johnson, BA Logsdon… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
Researchers have successfully applied exome sequencing to discover causal variants in
selected individuals with familial, highly penetrant disorders. We demonstrate the utility of …

seeQTL: a searchable database for human eQTLs

K Xia, AA Shabalin, S Huang, V Madar, YH Zhou… - …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
seeQTL is a comprehensive and versatile eQTL database, including various eQTL studies
and a meta-analysis of HapMap eQTL information. The database presents eQTL association …

Genome-wide association scan of dental caries in the permanent dentition

X Wang, JR Shaffer, Z Zeng, F Begum, AR Vieira… - BMC oral health, 2012 - Springer
Background Over 90% of adults aged 20 years or older with permanent teeth have suffered
from dental caries leading to pain, infection, or even tooth loss. Although caries prevalence …

Identification of genes with a correlation between copy number and expression in gastric cancer

L Cheng, P Wang, S Yang, Y Yang, Q Zhang… - BMC medical …, 2012 - Springer
Background To elucidate gene expression associated with copy number changes, we
performed a genome-wide copy number and expression microarray analysis of 25 pairs of …