MicroRNA signatures in human cancers

GA Calin, CM Croce - Nature reviews cancer, 2006 - nature.com
MicroRNA (miRNA) alterations are involved in the initiation and progression of human
cancer. The causes of the widespread differential expression of miRNA genes in malignant …

Heritability in the genomics era—concepts and misconceptions

PM Visscher, WG Hill, NR Wray - Nature reviews genetics, 2008 - nature.com
Heritability allows a comparison of the relative importance of genes and environment to the
variation of traits within and across populations. The concept of heritability and its definition …

Understanding mechanisms underlying human gene expression variation with RNA sequencing

JK Pickrell, JC Marioni, AA Pai, JF Degner… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying natural variation in gene expression is a
central goal of both medical and evolutionary genetics, and studies of expression …

Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming

Z Hochberg, R Feil, M Constancia, M Fraga… - Endocrine …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Plasticity in developmental programming has evolved in order to provide the best chances of
survival and reproductive success to the organism under changing environments …

microRNA target prediction programs predict many false positives

N Pinzón, B Li, L Martinez, A Sergeeva… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
According to the current view, each microRNA regulates hundreds of genes. Computational
tools aim at identifying microRNA targets, usually selecting evolutionarily conserved …

Mapping complex disease traits with global gene expression

W Cookson, L Liang, G Abecasis, M Moffatt… - Nature Reviews …, 2009 - nature.com
Variation in gene expression is an important mechanism underlying susceptibility to
complex disease. The simultaneous genome-wide assay of gene expression and genetic …

A genome-wide association study of global gene expression

AL Dixon, L Liang, MF Moffatt, W Chen, S Heath… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
We have created a global map of the effects of polymorphism on gene expression in 400
children from families recruited through a proband with asthma. We genotyped 408,273 …

Genetic analysis of genome-wide variation in human gene expression

M Morley, CM Molony, TM Weber, JL Devlin, KG Ewens… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Natural variation in gene expression is extensive in humans and other organisms, and
variation in the baseline expression level of many genes has a heritable component. To …

Revealing the architecture of gene regulation: the promise of eQTL studies

Y Gilad, SA Rifkin, JK Pritchard - Trends in genetics, 2008 - cell.com
Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping studies have become a widely used tool
for identifying genetic variants that affect gene regulation. In these studies, expression levels …

High-resolution mapping of expression-QTLs yields insight into human gene regulation

JB Veyrieras, S Kudaravalli, SY Kim… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Recent studies of the HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines have identified large numbers of
quantitative trait loci for gene expression (eQTLs). Reanalyzing these data using a novel …