[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer's disease: an updated overview of its genetics

J Andrade-Guerrero, A Santiago-Balmaseda… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. It is
classified as familial and sporadic. The dominant familial or autosomal presentation …

Deconstructing a syndrome: genomic insights into PCOS causal mechanisms and classification

M Dapas, A Dunaif - Endocrine reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common disorders in women of
reproductive age, affecting up to 15% worldwide, depending on the diagnostic criteria …

[HTML][HTML] TDP-43 represses cryptic exon inclusion in the FTD–ALS gene UNC13A

XR Ma, M Prudencio, Y Koike, SC Vatsavayai, G Kim… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
A hallmark pathological feature of the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the depletion of RNA-binding protein …

Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity

S Gazal, O Weissbrod, F Hormozdiari, KK Dey… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) generally do not implicate
target genes, as most disease SNPs are regulatory. Many SNP-to-gene (S2G) linking …

[HTML][HTML] Regulatory genomic circuitry of human disease loci by integrative epigenomics

CA Boix, BT James, YP Park, W Meuleman, M Kellis - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Annotating the molecular basis of human disease remains an unsolved challenge, as 93%
of disease loci are non-coding and gene-regulatory annotations are highly incomplete …

Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Single-cell epigenomic analyses implicate candidate causal variants at inherited risk loci for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

MR Corces, A Shcherbina, S Kundu, MJ Gloudemans… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies of neurological diseases have identified thousands of
variants associated with disease phenotypes. However, most of these variants do not alter …

Brain cell type–specific enhancer–promoter interactome maps and disease-risk association

A Nott, IR Holtman, NG Coufal, JCM Schlachetzki, M Yu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Noncoding genetic variation is a major driver of phenotypic diversity, but functional
interpretation is challenging. To better understand common genetic variation associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and challenges for transcriptome-wide association studies

M Wainberg, N Sinnott-Armstrong, N Mancuso… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) integrate genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) and gene expression datasets to identify gene–trait associations. In this …

Genome-wide CRISPRi/a screens in human neurons link lysosomal failure to ferroptosis

R Tian, A Abarientos, J Hong, SH Hashemi, R Yan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics provide a systematic map of gene expression in different human
cell types. The next challenge is to systematically understand cell-type-specific gene …