Open science in precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases

HL Leonard, MA Nalls, A Day-Williams… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
Open science in precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases Skip to main content Thank
you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To …

The GPS for drug development: navigating with evidence from human populations

TM Buergel, J Steinfeldt - Trends in Biotechnology, 2024 - cell.com
More than 50% of drug programs fail due to lack of efficacy. While the reasons are manifold,
the root causes are simple. First, modulating the target has no effect on the disease. Second …

Discovery of RXFP2 genetic association in resistant hypertensive men and RXFP2 antagonists for the treatment of resistant hypertension

SS Zhang, L Larrabee, AH Chang, S Desai, L Sloan… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Hypertension remains a leading cause of cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Failure to
control blood pressure with≥ 3 medications or control requiring≥ 4 medications is …

Genetic landscape of atopic dermatitis

L Paternoster - Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
The past year has seen a huge increase in the genes implicated for atopic dermatitis and in
the use of genetics to explore causal relationships. The latter requires caution in …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep disturbances as risk factors for neurodegeneration later in life

E Simmonds, KS Levine, J Han, H Iwaki, MJ Koretsky… - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The relationship between sleep disorders and neurodegeneration is complex and multi-
faceted. Using over one million electronic health records (EHRs) from Wales, UK, and …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying drug targets for schizophrenia through gene prioritization

J Kraft, A Braun, S Awasthi, G Panagiotaropoulou… - medRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Schizophrenia genome-wide association studies (GWASes) have identified>
250 significant loci and prioritized> 100 disease-related genes. However, gene prioritization …

The Gene Expression Landscape of Disease Genes

J García-González, S Garcia-Gonzalez, L Liou… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Fine-mapping and gene-prioritisation techniques applied to the latest Genome-Wide
Association Study (GWAS) results have prioritised hundreds of genes as causally …

The impact on clinical success from the 23andMe cohort

X Wang, S Karagounis, SS Shringarpure, R Srivas… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
90% of therapeutic programs that enter clinical trials ultimately fail. Human genetic variation
provides a set of" natural experiments" that can inform successful strategies for therapeutic …

Transcriptome-and proteome-wide Mendelian randomization to prioritize therapeutic targets for coronary heart disease

L Gaziano, E Allara, C Giambartolomei, D Stacey… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Despite widespread use of drugs targeting traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as
lipids and blood pressure, a high burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) remains, hence …

Minimizing biological risk for novel inhibitory drug targets: One knockout is all you need

A Dimitriev, LM Postovit, AL Simpson, GKS Wong - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
We argue that biological risk for novel inhibitory drug targets can be minimized, almost
eliminated, by a computational analysis of the healthcare records and DNA sequences in …