[HTML][HTML] A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis

A Conesa, P Madrigal, S Tarazona, D Gomez-Cabrero… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has a wide variety of applications, but no single
analysis pipeline can be used in all cases. We review all of the major steps in RNA-seq data …

Molecular quantitative trait loci

F Aguet, K Alasoo, YI Li, A Battle, HK Im… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding functional effects of genetic variants is one of the key challenges in human
genetics, as much of disease-associated variation is located in non-coding regions with …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of LZTFL1 as a candidate effector gene at a COVID-19 risk locus

DJ Downes, AR Cross, P Hua, N Roberts… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) disease (COVID-19)
pandemic has caused millions of deaths worldwide. Genome-wide association studies …

The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

GTEx Consortium - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project was established to characterize genetic
effects on the transcriptome across human tissues and to link these regulatory mechanisms …

Functional characterization of Alzheimer's disease genetic variants in microglia

X Yang, J Wen, H Yang, IR Jones, X Zhu, W Liu, B Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in microglia demonstrate the most substantial
enrichment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) heritability compared to other brain cell types …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal single cell sequencing implicates chromatin accessibility and genetic background in diabetic kidney disease progression

PC Wilson, Y Muto, H Wu, A Karihaloo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The proximal tubule is a key regulator of kidney function and glucose metabolism. Diabetic
kidney disease leads to proximal tubule injury and changes in chromatin accessibility that …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent inversion polymorphisms in humans associate with genetic instability and genomic disorders

D Porubsky, W Höps, H Ashraf, PH Hsieh… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Unlike copy number variants (CNVs), inversions remain an underexplored genetic variation
class. By integrating multiple genomic technologies, we discover 729 inversions in 41 …

[HTML][HTML] Single cell transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling redefine cellular heterogeneity in the adult human kidney

Y Muto, PC Wilson, N Ledru, H Wu, H Dimke… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The integration of single cell transcriptome and chromatin accessibility datasets enables a
deeper understanding of cell heterogeneity. We performed single nucleus ATAC (snATAC …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes

MJP Chaisson, AD Sanders, X Zhao, A Malhotra… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The incomplete identification of structural variants (SVs) from whole-genome sequencing
data limits studies of human genetic diversity and disease association. Here, we apply a …