Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

The post-GWAS era: from association to function

MD Gallagher, AS Chen-Plotkin - The American Journal of Human …, 2018 - cell.com
During the past 12 years, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have uncovered
thousands of genetic variants that influence risk for complex human traits and diseases. Yet …

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 …

The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions

N Rahmioglu, S Mortlock, M Ghiasi, PL Møller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 …

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 …

High-coverage whole-genome sequencing of the expanded 1000 Genomes Project cohort including 602 trios

M Byrska-Bishop, US Evani, X Zhao, AO Basile… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) is the largest fully open resource of whole-
genome sequencing (WGS) data consented for public distribution without access or use …

Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level

ECB Johnson, EK Carter, EB Dammer, DM Duong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The biological processes that are disrupted in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain remain
incompletely understood. In this study, we analyzed the proteomes of more than 1,000 brain …

Haplotype-aware variant calling with PEPPER-Margin-DeepVariant enables high accuracy in nanopore long-reads

K Shafin, T Pesout, PC Chang, M Nattestad… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing has the potential to transform variant detection by reaching currently
difficult-to-map regions and routinely linking together adjacent variations to enable read …

Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …