AI-powered therapeutic target discovery

FW Pun, IV Ozerov, A Zhavoronkov - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Disease modeling and target identification are the most crucial initial steps in drug
discovery, and influence the probability of success at every step of drug development …

mRNAs, proteins and the emerging principles of gene expression control

C Buccitelli, M Selbach - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Gene expression involves transcription, translation and the turnover of mRNAs and proteins.
The degree to which protein abundances scale with mRNA levels and the implications in …

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource

E Sollis, A Mosaku, A Abid, A Buniello… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog (www. ebi. ac. uk/gwas) is a FAIR knowledgebase
providing detailed, structured, standardised and interoperable genome-wide association …

Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets

JH Zhao, D Stacey, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating proteins have important functions in inflammation and a broad range of diseases.
To identify genetic influences on inflammation-related proteins, we conducted a genome …

Large-scale integration of the plasma proteome with genetics and disease

E Ferkingstad, P Sulem, BA Atlason… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The plasma proteome can help bridge the gap between the genome and diseases. Here we
describe genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of plasma protein levels measured with …

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 …

Mapping the proteo-genomic convergence of human diseases

M Pietzner, E Wheeler, J Carrasco-Zanini, A Cortes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Proteins are essential functional units of the human body and represent
the largest class of drug targets. RATIONALE Broad-capture proteomics has the potential to …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations

CG Boer, K Hatzikotoulas, L Southam, L Stefánsdóttir… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Osteoarthritis affects over 300 million people worldwide. Here, we conduct a genome-wide
association study meta-analysis across 826,690 individuals (177,517 with osteoarthritis) and …

Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction

R Karlsson Linnér, TT Mallard, PB Barr… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, such as substance use, antisocial
behavior and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, are collectively referred to as …

Potential drug targets for multiple sclerosis identified through Mendelian randomization analysis

J Lin, J Zhou, Y Xu - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sclerosis is a complex autoimmune disease, and several therapies for multiple
sclerosis have been developed and widely used. However, existing medications for multiple …