[HTML][HTML] Genetic impacts on DNA methylation: research findings and future perspectives

S Villicaña, JT Bell - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Multiple recent studies highlight that genetic variants can have strong impacts on a
significant proportion of the human DNA methylome. Methylation quantitative trait loci, or …

Function and information content of DNA methylation

D Schübeler - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Cytosine methylation is a DNA modification generally associated with transcriptional
silencing. Factors that regulate methylation have been linked to human disease, yet how …

A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease

DP Wightman, IE Jansen, JE Savage, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts
for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying …

DNA methylation QTL mapping across diverse human tissues provides molecular links between genetic variation and complex traits

M Oliva, K Demanelis, Y Lu, M Chernoff, F Jasmine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies of DNA methylation (DNAm) in solid human tissues are relatively scarce; tissue-
specific characterization of DNAm is needed to understand its role in gene regulation and its …

Discovery of target genes and pathways at GWAS loci by pooled single-cell CRISPR screens

JA Morris, C Caragine, Z Daniloski, J Domingo, T Barry… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most variants associated with complex traits and diseases identified by genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) map to noncoding regions of the genome with unknown effects …

[HTML][HTML] A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

J Schwartzentruber, S Cooper, JZ Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified. We …

Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation

JL Min, G Hemani, E Hannon, KF Dekkers… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Characterizing genetic influences on DNA methylation (DNAm) provides an opportunity to
understand mechanisms underpinning gene regulation and disease. In the present study …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes

MJP Chaisson, AD Sanders, X Zhao, A Malhotra… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The incomplete identification of structural variants (SVs) from whole-genome sequencing
data limits studies of human genetic diversity and disease association. Here, we apply a …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic drivers of epigenetic and transcriptional variation in human immune cells

L Chen, B Ge, FP Casale, L Vasquez, T Kwan… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Characterizing the multifaceted contribution of genetic and epigenetic factors to disease
phenotypes is a major challenge in human genetics and medicine. We carried out high …