[HTML][HTML] From GWAS to function: using functional genomics to identify the mechanisms underlying complex diseases

E Cano-Gamez, G Trynka - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully mapped thousands of loci
associated with complex traits. These associations could reveal the molecular mechanisms …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2019 update: a report from the American Heart Association

EJ Benjamin, P Muntner, A Alonso, MS Bittencourt… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National
Institutes of Health and other government agencies, brings together in a single document the …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

[HTML][HTML] Duration and key determinants of infectious virus shedding in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)

JJA van Kampen, DAMC van de Vijver… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Key questions in COVID-19 are the duration and determinants of infectious virus shedding.
Here, we report that infectious virus shedding is detected by virus cultures in 23 of the 129 …

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 …

The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

SE Graham, SL Clarke, KHH Wu, S Kanoni, GJM Zajac… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied
prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use. Despite …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

Advancing the use of genome-wide association studies for drug repurposing

WR Reay, MJ Cairns - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed important biological insights into
complex diseases, which are broadly expected to lead to the identification of new drug …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2018 update: a report from the American Heart Association

EJ Benjamin, SS Virani, CW Callaway… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government …

Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps

A Mahajan, D Taliun, M Thurner, NR Robertson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We expanded GWAS discovery for type 2 diabetes (T2D) by combining data from 898,130
European-descent individuals (9% cases), after imputation to high-density reference panels …