An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney

BB Lake, R Menon, S Winfree, Q Hu, R Melo Ferreira… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding kidney disease relies on defining the complexity of cell types and states, their
associated molecular profiles and interactions within tissue neighbourhoods. Here we …

Cardiovascular disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a narrative review

V Balbirsingh, AS Mohammed, AM Turner… - Thorax, 2022 - thorax.bmj.com
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at increased risk of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) and concomitant disease leads to reduced quality of life …

Mechanisms linking COPD to type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus: is there a relationship between diabetes and COPD?

SS Park, JL Perez Perez, B Perez Gandara… - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients frequently suffer from multiple
comorbidities, resulting in poor outcomes for these patients. Diabetes is observed at a …

Shared genetic and experimental links between obesity-related traits and asthma subtypes in UK Biobank

Z Zhu, Y Guo, H Shi, CL Liu, RA Panganiban… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Clinical and epidemiologic studies have shown that obesity is associated with
asthma and that these associations differ by asthma subtype. Little is known about the …

Exploring the genetic overlap between twelve psychiatric disorders

C Romero, J Werme, PR Jansen, J Gelernter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The widespread comorbidity among psychiatric disorders demonstrated in epidemiological
studies,,,–is mirrored by non-zero, positive genetic correlations from large-scale genetic …

Shared genetics of asthma and mental health disorders: a large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis

Z Zhu, X Zhu, CL Liu, H Shi, S Shen… - European …, 2019 - publications.ersnet.org
Epidemiological studies demonstrate an association between asthma and mental health
disorders, although little is known about the shared genetics and causality of this …

A large-scale genome-wide association analysis of lung function in the Chinese population identifies novel loci and highlights shared genetic aetiology with obesity

Z Zhu, J Li, J Si, B Ma, H Shi, J Lv… - European …, 2021 - publications.ersnet.org
Background Lung function is a heritable complex phenotype with obesity being one of its
important risk factors. However, knowledge of their shared genetic basis is limited. Most …

Multi-trait analysis characterizes the genetics of thyroid function and identifies causal associations with clinical implications

RBTM Sterenborg, I Steinbrenner, Y Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
To date only a fraction of the genetic footprint of thyroid function has been clarified. We
report a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of thyroid function in up to 271,040 …

scGWAS: landscape of trait-cell type associations by integrating single-cell transcriptomics-wide and genome-wide association studies

P Jia, R Hu, F Yan, Y Dai, Z Zhao - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background The rapid accumulation of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data
presents unique opportunities to decode the genetically mediated cell-type specificity in …

Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity

M Niarchou, DE Gustavson… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Moving in synchrony to the beat is a fundamental component of musicality. Here we
conducted a genome-wide association study to identify common genetic variants associated …