cLD: Rare-variant linkage disequilibrium between genomic regions identifies novel genomic interactions

D Wang, D Perera, J He, C Cao, P Kossinna, Q Li… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is a fundamental concept in genetics; critical for studying
genetic associations and molecular evolution. However, LD measurements are only reliable …

Phantom epistasis in genomic selection: on the predictive ability of epistatic models

MF Schrauf, JWR Martini, H Simianer… - G3: Genes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genomic selection uses whole-genome marker models to predict phenotypes or genetic
values for complex traits. Some of these models fit interaction terms between markers, and …

The impact of non-additive effects on the genetic correlation between populations

P Duenk, P Bijma, MPL Calus… - G3: Genes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Average effects of alleles can show considerable differences between populations. The
magnitude of these differences can be measured by the additive genetic correlation …

Missing causality and heritability of autoimmune hepatitis

AJ Czaja - Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Background Autoimmune hepatitis has an unknown cause and genetic associations that are
not disease-specific or always present. Clarification of its missing causality and heritability …

Complex fitness landscape shapes variation in a hyperpolymorphic species

AV Stolyarova, TV Neretina, EA Zvyagina, AV Fedotova… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
It is natural to assume that patterns of genetic variation in hyperpolymorphic species can
reveal large-scale properties of the fitness landscape that are hard to detect by studying …

Quinoa genome assembly employing genomic variation for guided scaffolding

A Bodrug-Schepers, N Stralis-Pavese… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message We propose to use the natural variation between individuals of a population
for genome assembly scaffolding. In today's genome projects, multiple accessions get …

Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions

M Behr, K Kumbier, A Cordova-Palomera, M Aguirre… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Detecting epistatic drivers of human phenotypes is a considerable challenge. Traditional
approaches use regression to sequentially test multiplicative interaction terms involving …

Gene–environment interaction in the era of precision medicine–filling the potholes rather than starting to build a new road

JM Álvarez-Castro - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gene–environment interaction is a key part of evolutionary biology, animal, and plant
breeding, and a number of health sciences, like epidemiology and precision medicine …

Secure, privacy-preserving and practical collaborative Genome-Wide Association Studies

T Pascoal - 2022 - orbilu.uni.lu
[en] Understanding the interplay between genomics and human health is a crucial step for
the advancement and development of our society. Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) …

A General Theory of Genetic Effects

JM Álvarez-Castro - … : Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Brought Up …, 2024 - Springer
The natural and orthogonal interactions (NOIA) model was originally developed not only as
one more step in the improvement of genetic models but actually as a sound basis for the …