Proteomic profiling platforms head to head: leveraging genetics and clinical traits to compare aptamer-and antibody-based methods

DH Katz, JM Robbins, S Deng, UA Tahir, AG Bick… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
High-throughput proteomic profiling using antibody or aptamer-based affinity reagents is
used increasingly in human studies. However, direct analyses to address the relative …

Operating characteristics of the rank-based inverse normal transformation for quantitative trait analysis in genome-wide association studies

ZR McCaw, JM Lane, R Saxena, S Redline, X Lin - Biometrics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative traits analyzed in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) are often
nonnormally distributed. For such traits, association tests based on standard linear …

Contig: Self-supervised multimodal contrastive learning for medical imaging with genetics

A Taleb, M Kirchler, R Monti… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
High annotation costs are a substantial bottleneck in applying modern deep learning
architectures to clinically relevant medical use cases, substantiating the need for novel …

Non-linear machine learning models incorporating SNPs and PRS improve polygenic prediction in diverse human populations

M Elgart, G Lyons, S Romero-Brufau… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are commonly used to quantify the inherited susceptibility for a
trait, yet they fail to account for non-linear and interaction effects between single nucleotide …

Genetic determinants of telomere length from 109,122 ancestrally diverse whole-genome sequences in TOPMed

MA Taub, MP Conomos, R Keener, KR Iyer… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Genetic studies on telomere length are important for understanding age-related diseases.
Prior GWASs for leukocyte TL have been limited to European and Asian populations. Here …

Whole genome sequence analysis of the plasma proteome in black adults provides novel insights into cardiovascular disease

DH Katz, UA Tahir, AG Bick, A Pampana, D Ngo… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Plasma proteins are critical mediators of cardiovascular processes and are the
targets of many drugs. Previous efforts to characterize the genetic architecture of the plasma …

Genetic determinants of cardiometabolic and pulmonary phenotypes and obstructive sleep apnoea in HCHS/SOL

Y Zhang, M Elgart, N Kurniansyah, BW Spitzer… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) often co-occurs with
cardiometabolic and pulmonary diseases. This study is to apply genetic analysis methods to …

A genome-wide association study discovers 46 loci of the human metabolome in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

EV Feofanova, H Chen, Y Dai, P Jia, ML Grove… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Variation in levels of the human metabolome reflect changes in homeostasis, providing a
window into health and disease. The genetic impact on circulating metabolites in Hispanics …

Clinical laboratory test-wide association scan of polygenic scores identifies biomarkers of complex disease

JK Dennis, JM Sealock, P Straub, YH Lee, D Hucks… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Clinical laboratory (lab) tests are used in clinical practice to diagnose, treat, and
monitor disease conditions. Test results are stored in electronic health records (EHRs), and …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome sequencing association analysis of quantitative red blood cell phenotypes: The NHLBI TOPMed program

Y Hu, AM Stilp, CP McHugh, S Rao, D Jain… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Whole-genome sequencing (WGS), a powerful tool for detecting novel coding and
non-coding disease-causing variants, has largely been applied to clinical diagnosis of …