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 …

Genomics of disease risk in globally diverse populations

D Gurdasani, I Barroso, E Zeggini… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Risk of disease is multifactorial and can be shaped by socio-economic, demographic,
cultural, environmental and genetic factors. Our understanding of the genetic determinants …

From GWAS to gene: transcriptome-wide association studies and other methods to functionally understand GWAS discoveries

B Li, MD Ritchie - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since their inception, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than a
hundred thousand single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci that are associated with …

Genetic analyses support the contribution of mRNA N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification to human disease heritability

Z Zhang, K Luo, Z Zou, M Qiu, J Tian, L Sieh, H Shi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) plays important roles in regulating messenger RNA
processing. Despite rapid progress in this field, little is known about the genetic …

The accelerated aging phenotype: the role of race and social determinants of health on aging

NN Hooten, NL Pacheco, JT Smith, MK Evans - Ageing Research Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The pursuit to discover the fundamental biology and mechanisms of aging within the context
of the physical and social environment is critical to designing interventions to prevent and …

Population-specific causal disease effect sizes in functionally important regions impacted by selection

H Shi, S Gazal, M Kanai, EM Koch, AP Schoech… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many diseases exhibit population-specific causal effect sizes with trans-ethnic genetic
correlations significantly less than 1, limiting trans-ethnic polygenic risk prediction. We …

Sources of gene expression variation in a globally diverse human cohort

DJ Taylor, SB Chhetri, MG Tassia, A Biddanda, SM Yan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic variation that influences gene expression and splicing is a key source of phenotypic
diversity,,,–. Although invaluable, studies investigating these links in humans have been …

Polygenic transcriptome risk scores (PTRS) can improve portability of polygenic risk scores across ancestries

Y Liang, M Pividori, A Manichaikul, AA Palmer, NJ Cox… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are valuable to translate the results of genome-
wide association studies (GWAS) into clinical practice. To date, most GWAS have been …

Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load

PJ McLaren, I Porreca, G Iaconis, HP Mok… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
HIV-1 remains a global health crisis, highlighting the need to identify new targets for
therapies. Here, given the disproportionate HIV-1 burden and marked human genome …

Local dynamic spontaneous brain activity changes in first-episode, treatment-naive patients with major depressive disorder and their associated gene expression …

K Xue, S Liang, B Yang, D Zhu, Y Xie, W Qin… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
BackgroundMajor depressive disorder (MDD) is a common debilitating disorder
characterized by impaired spontaneous brain activity, yet little is known about its alterations …