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 …

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

MS Hill, P Vande Zande, PJ Wittkopp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Heritable variation in gene expression is common within and between species. This
variation arises from mutations that alter the form or function of molecular gene regulatory …

Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries

A Mishra, R Malik, T Hachiya, T Jürgenson, S Namba… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke—the second leading cause of
death worldwide—were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry …

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 …

Impact of genetic polymorphisms on human immune cell gene expression

BJ Schmiedel, D Singh, A Madrigal… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
While many genetic variants have been associated with risk for human diseases, how these
variants affect gene expression in various cell types remains largely unknown. To address …

Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues

GTEx Consortium Lead analysts: Aguet François 1 … - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the molecular function of the human genome and its variation
across individuals is essential for identifying the cellular mechanisms that underlie human …

Genetics of blood lipids among~ 300,000 multi-ethnic participants of the Million Veteran Program

D Klarin, SM Damrauer, K Cho, YV Sun, TM Teslovich… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Million Veteran Program (MVP) was established in 2011 as a national research
initiative to determine how genetic variation influences the health of US military veterans …

Fine-mapping inflammatory bowel disease loci to single-variant resolution

H Huang, M Fang, L Jostins, M Umićević Mirkov… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel diseases are chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders that affect
millions of people worldwide. Genome-wide association studies have identified 200 …

Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies

A Gusev, A Ko, H Shi, G Bhatia, W Chung… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Many genetic variants influence complex traits by modulating gene expression, thus altering
the abundance of one or multiple proteins. Here we introduce a powerful strategy that …

The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: multitissue gene regulation in humans

GTEx Consortium, KG Ardlie, DS Deluca, AV Segrè… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Understanding the functional consequences of genetic variation, and how it affects complex
human disease and quantitative traits, remains a critical challenge for biomedicine. We …