Single-cell atlas reveals correlates of high cognitive function, dementia, and resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology

H Mathys, Z Peng, CA Boix, MB Victor, N Leary, S Babu… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia worldwide, but the
molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment remain poorly …

Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

D Taliun, DN Harris, MD Kessler, J Carlson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme seeks to elucidate
the genetic architecture and biology of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, with the …

Recent advances and challenges of rare variant association analysis in the biobank sequencing era

W Chen, BJ Coombes, NB Larson - Frontiers in genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Causal variants for rare genetic diseases are often rare in the general population. Rare
variants may also contribute to common complex traits and can have much larger per-allele …

Opportunities and challenges for the use of common controls in sequencing studies

GL Wojcik, J Murphy, JL Edelson, CR Gignoux… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies using large-scale genome and exome sequencing data
have become increasingly valuable in identifying associations between genetic variants and …

Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer

J Byun, Y Han, Y Li, J Xia, E Long, J Choi, X Xiao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To identify new susceptibility loci to lung cancer among diverse populations, we performed
cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies in European, East Asian and African …

FAVOR: functional annotation of variants online resource and annotator for variation across the human genome

H Zhou, T Arapoglou, X Li, Z Li, X Zheng… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Large biobank-scale whole genome sequencing (WGS) studies are rapidly identifying a
multitude of coding and non-coding variants. They provide an unprecedented resource for …

Multiple causal variants underlie genetic associations in humans

NS Abell, MK DeGorter, MJ Gloudemans, E Greenwald… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Associations between genetic variation and traits are often in noncoding regions with strong
linkage disequilibrium (LD), where a single causal variant is assumed to underlie the …

SAIGE-GENE+ improves the efficiency and accuracy of set-based rare variant association tests

W Zhou, W Bi, Z Zhao, KK Dey, KA Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Several biobanks, including UK Biobank (UKBB), are generating large-scale sequencing
data. An existing method, SAIGE-GENE, performs well when testing variants with minor …

Powerful, scalable and resource-efficient meta-analysis of rare variant associations in large whole genome sequencing studies

X Li, C Quick, H Zhou, SM Gaynor, Y Liu, H Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Meta-analysis of whole genome sequencing/whole exome sequencing (WGS/WES) studies
provides an attractive solution to the problem of collecting large sample sizes for discovering …

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 …