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 …

Where are the disease-associated eQTLs?

BD Umans, A Battle, Y Gilad - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Most disease-associated variants, although located in putatively regulatory regions, do not
have detectable effects on gene expression. One explanation could be that we have not …

Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data

P Wainschtein, D Jain, Z Zheng, LA Cupples… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Analyses of data from genome-wide association studies on unrelated individuals have
shown that, for human traits and diseases, approximately one-third to two-thirds of …

Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels

DW Yao, LJ O'connor, AL Price, A Gusev - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Disease variants identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) tend to overlap
with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), but it remains unclear whether this overlap is …

[HTML][HTML] The omnigenic model and polygenic prediction of complex traits

I Mathieson - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
The omnigenic model was proposed as a framework to understand the highly polygenic
architecture of complex traits revealed by genome-wide association studies (GWASs). I …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of non-additive genetic variance in human complex traits from a large sample of unrelated individuals

V Hivert, J Sidorenko, F Rohart, ME Goddard… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Non-additive genetic variance for complex traits is traditionally estimated from data on
relatives. It is notoriously difficult to estimate without bias in non-laboratory species …

Human 5′ UTR design and variant effect prediction from a massively parallel translation assay

PJ Sample, B Wang, DW Reid, V Presnyak… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The ability to predict the impact of cis-regulatory sequences on gene expression would
facilitate discovery in fundamental and applied biology. Here we combine polysome profiling …

Unique roles of rare variants in the genetics of complex diseases in humans

Y Momozawa, K Mizukami - Journal of human genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified> 10,000 genetic variants associated with
various phenotypes and diseases. Although the majority are common variants, rare variants …

A framework for detecting noncoding rare-variant associations of large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies

Z Li, X Li, H Zhou, SM Gaynor, MS Selvaraj… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies have enabled analysis of noncoding rare-
variant (RV) associations with complex human diseases and traits. Variant-set analysis is a …

Analyses of rare predisposing variants of lung cancer in 6,004 whole genomes in Chinese

C Wang, J Dai, N Qin, J Fan, H Ma, C Chen, M An… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We present the largest whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study of non-small cell lung
cancer (NSCLC) to date among 6,004 individuals of Chinese ancestry, coupled with 23,049 …