webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study

C Cao, J Wang, D Kwok, F Cui, Z Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The development of transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) has enabled
researchers to better identify and interpret causal genes in many diseases. However, there …

Combining the strengths of inverse-variance weighting and Egger regression in Mendelian randomization using a mixture of regressions model

Z Lin, Y Deng, W Pan - PLoS genetics, 2021 - journals.plos.org
With the increasing availability of large-scale GWAS summary data on various traits,
Mendelian randomization (MR) has become commonly used to infer causality between a …

[HTML][HTML] eQTL studies: from bulk tissues to single cells

J Zhang, H Zhao - Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2023 - Elsevier
An expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) is a chromosomal region where genetic
variants are associated with the expression levels of specific genes that can be both nearby …

Conditional transcriptome-wide association study for fine-mapping candidate causal genes

L Liu, R Yan, P Guo, J Ji, W Gong, F Xue, Z Yuan… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) aim to integrate genome-wide association
studies with expression-mapping studies to identify genes with genetically predicted …

Multiome-wide Association Studies: Novel Approaches for Understanding Diseases

M Shao, K Chen, S Zhang, M Tian… - Genomics …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The rapid development of multiome (transcriptome, proteome, cistrome, imaging, and
regulome)-wide association study methods have opened new avenues for biologists to …

Likelihood-based Mendelian randomization analysis with automated instrument selection and horizontal pleiotropic modeling

Z Yuan, L Liu, P Guo, R Yan, F Xue, X Zhou - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a common tool for identifying causal risk factors
underlying diseases. Here, we present a method, MR with automated instrument …

METRO: Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association studies for powerful gene-trait association detection

Z Li, W Zhao, L Shang, TH Mosley, SLR Kardia… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Integrative analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and gene expression
studies in the form of a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) has the potential to …

Novel Variance-Component TWAS method for studying complex human diseases with applications to Alzheimer's dementia

S Tang, AS Buchman, PL De Jager, DA Bennett… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have been widely used to integrate
transcriptomic and genetic data to study complex human diseases. Within a test dataset …

TIGAR-V2: Efficient TWAS tool with nonparametric Bayesian eQTL weights of 49 tissue types from GTEx V8

RL Parrish, GC Gibson, MP Epstein, J Yang - Human Genetics and …, 2022 - cell.com
Standard transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) methods first train gene expression
prediction models using reference transcriptomic data and then test the association between …

Aggregating multiple expression prediction models improves the power of transcriptome-wide association studies

P Zeng, J Dai, S Jin, X Zhou - Human Molecular Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) is an important integrative method for
identifying genes that are causally associated with phenotypes. A key step of TWAS involves …