[HTML][HTML] From GWAS to gene: transcriptome-wide association studies and other methods to functionally understand GWAS discoveries

B Li, MD Ritchie - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since their inception, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than a
hundred thousand single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci that are associated with …

Variation in genes implicated in B‐cell development and antibody production affects susceptibility to pemphigus

V Calonga‐Solís, LM Amorim, TDJ Farias… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A bstract Pemphigus foliaceus (PF) is an autoimmune blistering skin disease characterized
by the presence of pathogenic autoantibodies against desmoglein 1, a component of …

Novel insights into the common heritable liability to addiction: a multivariate genome-wide association study

T Schoeler, J Baldwin, A Allegrini, W Barkhuizen… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Addiction to nicotine, alcohol and cannabis commonly co-occurs, which is thought to partly
stem from a common heritable liability. To elucidate its genetic architecture, we modelled the …