Advancing the use of genome-wide association studies for drug repurposing

WR Reay, MJ Cairns - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed important biological insights into
complex diseases, which are broadly expected to lead to the identification of new drug …

UK Biobank: a globally important resource for cancer research

MC Conroy, B Lacey, J Bešević, W Omiyale… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a large-scale prospective study with deep phenotyping and genomic data. Its
open-access policy allows researchers worldwide, from academia or industry, to perform …

Mapping the proteo-genomic convergence of human diseases

M Pietzner, E Wheeler, J Carrasco-Zanini, A Cortes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Proteins are essential functional units of the human body and represent
the largest class of drug targets. RATIONALE Broad-capture proteomics has the potential to …

Genome-wide analyses of 200,453 individuals yield new insights into the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis

SP Kar, PM Quiros, M Gu, T Jiang, J Mitchell… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the clonal expansion of a blood stem cell and its progeny driven
by somatic driver mutations, affects over a third of people, yet remains poorly understood …

Mapping the temporal and spatial dynamics of the human endometrium in vivo and in vitro

L Garcia-Alonso, LF Handfield, K Roberts… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The endometrium, the mucosal lining of the uterus, undergoes dynamic changes throughout
the menstrual cycle in response to ovarian hormones. We have generated dense single-cell …

Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood

DJ Thompson, G Genovese, J Halvardson, JC Ulirsch… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common
form of clonal mosaicism,,,–, yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is …

Circulating inflammatory cytokines and risk of five cancers: a Mendelian randomization analysis

E Bouras, V Karhunen, D Gill, J Huang, PC Haycock… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Epidemiological and experimental evidence has linked chronic inflammation to
cancer aetiology. It is unclear whether associations for specific inflammatory biomarkers are …

Gut microbiota and risk of five common cancers: A univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization study

Z Wei, B Yang, T Tang, Z Xiao, F Ye, X Li… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Previous studies have linked gut microbiota with cancer etiology, but the
associations for specific gut microbiota are causal or owing to bias remain to be elucidated …

Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers

YD Zhang, AN Hurson, H Zhang, PP Choudhury… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the identification of hundreds of
susceptibility loci across cancers, but the impact of further studies remains uncertain. Here …

Systematic review of Mendelian randomization studies on risk of cancer

G Markozannes, A Kanellopoulou, O Dimopoulou… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background We aimed to map and describe the current state of Mendelian randomization
(MR) literature on cancer risk and to identify associations supported by robust evidence …