Molecular quantitative trait loci

F Aguet, K Alasoo, YI Li, A Battle, HK Im… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding functional effects of genetic variants is one of the key challenges in human
genetics, as much of disease-associated variation is located in non-coding regions with …

Cloud computing for genomic data analysis and collaboration

B Langmead, A Nellore - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing has made major strides in the past decade. Studies based on
large sequencing data sets are growing in number, and public archives for raw sequencing …

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 …

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 …

A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

L Yengo, S Vedantam, E Marouli, J Sidorenko, E Bartell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–
50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and …

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 …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals cell type–specific molecular and genetic associations to lupus

RK Perez, MG Gordon, M Subramaniam, MC Kim… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease. Knowledge
of circulating immune cell types and states associated with SLE remains incomplete. We …

A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue

MP Emont, C Jacobs, AL Essene, D Pant, D Tenen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
White adipose tissue, once regarded as morphologically and functionally bland, is now
recognized to be dynamic, plastic and heterogenous, and is involved in a wide array of …