Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine

F Mauvais-Jarvis, NB Merz, PJ Barnes, RD Brinton… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Clinicians can encounter sex and gender disparities in diagnostic and therapeutic
responses. These disparities are noted in epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical …

Genomic imprinting disorders: lessons on how genome, epigenome and environment interact

D Monk, DJG Mackay, T Eggermann, ER Maher… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genomic imprinting, the monoallelic and parent-of-origin-dependent expression of a subset
of genes, is required for normal development, and its disruption leads to human disease …

Genomic–transcriptomic evolution in lung cancer and metastasis

C Martínez-Ruiz, JRM Black, C Puttick, MS Hill… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Intratumour heterogeneity (ITH) fuels lung cancer evolution, which leads to immune evasion
and resistance to therapy. Here, using paired whole-exome and RNA sequencing data, we …

Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues

GTEx Consortium Lead analysts: Aguet François 1 … - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the molecular function of the human genome and its variation
across individuals is essential for identifying the cellular mechanisms that underlie human …

A novel approach to high-quality postmortem tissue procurement: the GTEx project

LJ Carithers, K Ardlie, M Barcus… - Biopreservation and …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, sponsored by the NIH Common Fund, was
established to study the correlation between human genetic variation and tissue-specific …

Clinical implementation of RNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnostics

VA Yépez, M Gusic, R Kopajtich, C Mertes, NH Smith… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Lack of functional evidence hampers variant interpretation, leaving a large
proportion of individuals with a suspected Mendelian disorder without genetic diagnosis …

Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease

M Horikoshi, RN Beaumont, FR Day, NM Warrington… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Birth weight (BW) has been shown to be influenced by both fetal and maternal factors and in
observational studies is reproducibly associated with future risk of adult metabolic diseases …

The RNA Atlas expands the catalog of human non-coding RNAs

L Lorenzi, HS Chiu, F Avila Cobos, S Gross… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Existing compendia of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) are incomplete, in part because they are
derived almost exclusively from small and polyadenylated RNAs. Here we present a more …

Tools and best practices for data processing in allelic expression analysis

SE Castel, A Levy-Moonshine, P Mohammadi, E Banks… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Allelic expression analysis has become important for integrating genome and transcriptome
data to characterize various biological phenomena such as cis-regulatory variation and …

A map of constrained coding regions in the human genome

JM Havrilla, BS Pedersen, RM Layer, AR Quinlan - Nature genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Deep catalogs of genetic variation from thousands of humans enable the detection of
intraspecies constraint by identifying coding regions with a scarcity of variation. While …