The MUC6/AP2A2 Locus and Its Relevance to Alzheimer's Disease: A Review

PT Nelson, DW Fardo… - Journal of Neuropathology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We recently reported evidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-linked genetic variation within
the mucin 6 (MUC6) gene on chromosome 11p, nearby the adaptor-related protein complex …

Rare genetic variants in interleukin-37 link this anti-inflammatory cytokine to the pathogenesis and treatment of gout

V Klück, RC van Deuren, G Cavalli… - Annals of the …, 2020 - ard.bmj.com
Objective Gout is characterised by severe interleukin (IL)-1-mediated joint inflammation
induced by monosodium urate crystals. Since IL-37 is a pivotal anti-inflammatory cytokine …

[HTML][HTML] GLnexus: joint variant calling for large cohort sequencing

MF Lin, O Rodeh, J Penn, X Bai, JG Reid… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
As ever-larger cohorts of human genomes are collected in pursuit of genotype/phenotype
associations, sequencing informatics must scale up to yield complete and accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Calibrated rare variant genetic risk scores for complex disease prediction using large exome sequence repositories

R Lali, M Chong, A Omidi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Rare variants are collectively numerous and may underlie a considerable proportion of
complex disease risk. However, identifying genuine rare variant associations is challenging …

Genomic variant-identification methods may alter Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission inferences

KS Walter, C Colijn, T Cohen… - Microbial …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
Pathogen genomic data are increasingly used to characterize global and local transmission
patterns of important human pathogens and to inform public health interventions. Yet, there …

Alzheimer Disease Pathology-Associated Polymorphism in a Complex Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Region Within the MUC6 Gene, Near the AP2A2 Gene

Y Katsumata, DW Fardo, AD Bachstetter… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We found evidence of late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD)-associated genetic
polymorphism within an exon of Mucin 6 (MUC6) and immediately downstream from another …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of variant-level batch effects on identification of genetic risk factors in large sequencing studies

DP Wickland, Y Ren, JP Sinnwell, JS Reddy, C Pottier… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Genetic studies have shifted to sequencing-based rare variants discovery after decades of
success in identifying common disease variants by Genome-Wide Association Studies using …

Genomic variant identification methods alter Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission inference

KS Walter, C Colijn, T Cohen, B Mathema, Q Liu… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Pathogen genomic data are increasingly used to characterize global and local transmission
patterns of important human pathogens and to inform public health interventions. Yet there is …

Whole-exome sequencing and C9orf72 analysis in primary progressive aphasia

V Pytel, L Hernández-Lorenzo… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is mainly considered a sporadic disease and few studies
have systematically analyzed its genetic basis. We here report the analyses of C9orf72 …

Implications of Genetic Distance to Reference and De Novo Genome Assembly for Clinical Genomics in Africans

D Shriner, A Adeyemo, CN Rotimi - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
In clinical genomics, variant calling from short-read sequencing data typically relies on a pan-
genomic, universal human reference sequence. A major limitation of this approach is that …