Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types

HK Finucane, YA Reshef, V Anttila, K Slowikowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We introduce an approach to identify disease-relevant tissues and cell types by analyzing
gene expression data together with genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary …

Estimating the causal tissues for complex traits and diseases

H Ongen, AA Brown, O Delaneau, NI Panousis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
How to interpret the biological causes underlying the predisposing markers identified
through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) remains an open question. One direct …

Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics

HK Finucane, B Bulik-Sullivan, A Gusev, G Trynka… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Recent work has demonstrated that some functional categories of the genome contribute
disproportionately to the heritability of complex diseases. Here we analyze a broad set of …

[HTML][HTML] Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analyses reveal downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases

N de Klein, EA Tsai, M Vochteloo, D Baird, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of therapeutic targets from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) requires
insights into downstream functional consequences. We harmonized 8,613 RNA-sequencing …

Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

GL Wojcik, M Graff, KK Nishimura, R Tao, J Haessler… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have laid the foundation for investigations into
the biology of complex traits, drug development and clinical guidelines. However, the …

Hints of hidden heritability in GWAS

G Gibson - Nature genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Although susceptibility loci identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
typically explain only a small proportion of the heritability, a classical quantitative genetic …

Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels

DW Yao, LJ O'connor, AL Price, A Gusev - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Disease variants identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) tend to overlap
with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), but it remains unclear whether this overlap is …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analysis of omics summary data reveals putative mechanisms underlying complex traits

Y Wu, J Zeng, F Zhang, Z Zhu, T Qi, Z Zheng… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The identification of genes and regulatory elements underlying the associations discovered
by GWAS is essential to understanding the aetiology of complex traits (including diseases) …

[HTML][HTML] From GWAS to function: using functional genomics to identify the mechanisms underlying complex diseases

E Cano-Gamez, G Trynka - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully mapped thousands of loci
associated with complex traits. These associations could reveal the molecular mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying missing heritability at known GWAS loci

A Gusev, G Bhatia, N Zaitlen, BJ Vilhjalmsson… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Recent work has shown that much of the missing heritability of complex traits can be
resolved by estimates of heritability explained by all genotyped SNPs. However, it is …