[HTML][HTML] Multimodal biomedical AI

JN Acosta, GJ Falcone, P Rajpurkar, EJ Topol - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The increasing availability of biomedical data from large biobanks, electronic health records,
medical imaging, wearable and ambient biosensors, and the lower cost of genome and …

Deconstructing a syndrome: genomic insights into PCOS causal mechanisms and classification

M Dapas, A Dunaif - Endocrine reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common disorders in women of
reproductive age, affecting up to 15% worldwide, depending on the diagnostic criteria …

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, W Zhang, MCY Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

C Bellenguez, F Küçükali, IE Jansen, L Kleineidam… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the genetic landscape of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related
dementias (ADD) provides a unique opportunity for a better understanding of the associated …

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

V Trubetskoy, AF Pardiñas, T Qi, G Panagiotaropoulou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%, much of which is attributable to common risk
alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with …

Single-cell eQTL mapping identifies cell type–specific genetic control of autoimmune disease

S Yazar, J Alquicira-Hernandez, K Wing, A Senabouth… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human immune system displays substantial variation between individuals, leading to
differences in susceptibility to autoimmune disease. We present single-cell RNA sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use

GRB Saunders, X Wang, F Chen, SK Jang, M Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of
worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of the microbiome, diet and genetics on inter-individual variation in the human plasma metabolome

L Chen, DV Zhernakova, A Kurilshikov… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The levels of the thousands of metabolites in the human plasma metabolome are strongly
influenced by an individual's genetics and the composition of their diet and gut microbiome …

[HTML][HTML] The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank

BV Halldorsson, HP Eggertsson, KHS Moore… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Detailed knowledge of how diversity in the sequence of the human genome affects
phenotypic diversity depends on a comprehensive and reliable characterization of both …