Molecular mechanisms of environmental exposures and human disease

H Wu, CM Eckhardt, AA Baccarelli - Nature reviews genetics, 2023 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of disease risk for common complex disorders is attributable to
environmental exposures and pollutants. An appreciation of how environmental pollutants …

[HTML][HTML] Gene–environment interactions and their impact on human health

SJ Virolainen, A VonHandorf, KCMF Viel… - Genes & …, 2023 - nature.com
The molecular processes underlying human health and disease are highly complex. Often,
genetic and environmental factors contribute to a given disease or phenotype in a non …

Genomic atlas of the plasma metabolome prioritizes metabolites implicated in human diseases

Y Chen, T Lu, U Pettersson-Kymmer, ID Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic processes can influence disease risk and provide therapeutic targets. By
conducting genome-wide association studies of 1,091 blood metabolites and 309 metabolite …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic impacts on DNA methylation: research findings and future perspectives

S Villicaña, JT Bell - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Multiple recent studies highlight that genetic variants can have strong impacts on a
significant proportion of the human DNA methylome. Methylation quantitative trait loci, or …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study identifies 143 loci associated with 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentration

JA Revez, T Lin, Z Qiao, A Xue, Y Holtz, Z Zhu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Vitamin D deficiency is a candidate risk factor for a range of adverse health outcomes. In a
genome-wide association study of 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) concentration in 417,580 …

[HTML][HTML] A compressed variance component mixed model for detecting QTNs and QTN-by-environment and QTN-by-QTN interactions in genome-wide association …

M Li, YW Zhang, ZC Zhang, Y Xiang, MH Liu, YH Zhou… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Although genome-wide association studies are widely used to mine genes for quantitative
traits, the effects to be estimated are confounded, and the methodologies for detecting …

Colloquium: Physical properties of group-IV monochalcogenide monolayers

S Barraza-Lopez, BM Fregoso, JW Villanova… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
The state-of-the-art knowledge of ferroelectric and ferroelastic group-IV monochalcogenide
monolayers is surveyed. These semiconductors feature remarkable structural and …

Large uncertainty in individual polygenic risk score estimation impacts PRS-based risk stratification

Y Ding, K Hou, KS Burch, S Lapinska, F Privé… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the cohort-level accuracy of polygenic risk scores (PRSs)—estimates of genetic
value at the individual level—has been widely assessed, uncertainty in PRSs remains …

The Parkinson's disease genome‐wide association study locus browser

FP Grenn, JJ Kim, MB Makarious, H Iwaki… - Movement …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with an often
complex component identifiable by genome‐wide association studies. The most recent large …

Importance of including non-European populations in large human genetic studies to enhance precision medicine

D Ju, D Hui, DA Hammond, A Wonkam… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
One goal of genomic medicine is to uncover an individual's genetic risk for disease, which
generally requires data connecting genotype to phenotype, as done in genome-wide …