From big data to precision medicine

T Hulsen, SS Jamuar, AR Moody, JH Karnes… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
For over a decade the term “Big data” has been used to describe the rapid increase in
volume, variety and velocity of information available, not just in medical research but in …

Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities

AJ Kwok, A Mentzer, JC Knight - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how human genetics influence infectious disease susceptibility offers the
opportunity for new insights into pathogenesis, potential drug targets, risk stratification …

Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

BW Kunkle, B Grenier-Boley, R Sims, JC Bis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially
driven by genetics. To identify LOAD risk loci, we performed a large genome-wide …

Using phecodes for research with the electronic health record: from PheWAS to PheRS

L Bastarache - Annual review of biomedical data science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Electronic health records (EHRs) are a rich source of data for researchers, but extracting
meaningful information out of this highly complex data source is challenging. Phecodes …

Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) Guideline for CYP2C9 and HLA‐B Genotypes and Phenytoin Dosing: 2020 Update

JH Karnes, AE Rettie, AA Somogyi… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phenytoin is an antiepileptic drug with a narrow therapeutic index and large interpatient
pharmacokinetic variability, partly due to genetic variation in CYP2C9. Furthermore, the …

HLA imputation and its application to genetic and molecular fine-mapping of the MHC region in autoimmune diseases

T Naito, Y Okada - Seminars in immunopathology, 2022 - Springer
Variations of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes in the major histocompatibility complex
region (MHC) significantly affect the risk of various diseases, especially autoimmune …

Current research status of HLA in immune‐related diseases

B Liu, Y Shao, R Fu - Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA), also known as human major histocompatibility complex
(MHC), is encoded by the HLA gene complex, and is currently known to have the highest …

Rheumatoid arthritis and risk of site-specific cancers: Mendelian randomization study in European and East Asian populations

S Yuan, J Chen, X Ruan, M Vithayathil, S Kar… - Arthritis Research & …, 2022 - Springer
Background The associations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with risk of site-specific cancers
beyond lymphohematopoietic cancer have been scarcely explored. We conducted a …

Genetic and phenotypic landscape of the major histocompatibilty complex region in the Japanese population

J Hirata, K Hosomichi, S Sakaue, M Kanai… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To perform detailed fine-mapping of the major-histocompatibility-complex region, we
conducted next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based typing of the 33 human leukocyte …

Cross-cancer evaluation of polygenic risk scores for 16 cancer types in two large cohorts

RE Graff, TB Cavazos, KK Thai, L Kachuri… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Even distinct cancer types share biological hallmarks. Here, we investigate polygenic risk
score (PRS)-specific pleiotropy across 16 cancers in European ancestry individuals from the …