Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants

A Wang, J Shen, AA Rodriguez, EJ Saunders, F Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations
remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across ancestrally diverse …

Research progress and applications of genome‐wide association study in farm animals

X Tan, Z He, AG Fahey, G Zhao, R Liu… - Animal Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exploring the genetic loci underlying economic traits is foundational for innovation in
modern animal breeding technology. Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have been …

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 …

Genome-and transcriptome-wide association studies provide insights into the genetic basis of natural variation of seed oil content in Brassica napus

S Tang, H Zhao, S Lu, L Yu, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - Molecular Plant, 2021 - cell.com
Seed oil content (SOC) is a highly important and complex trait in oil crops. Here, we
decipher the genetic basis of natural variation in SOC of Brassica napus by genome-and …

Transcriptome‐wide association studies: A view from Mendelian randomization

H Zhu, X Zhou - Quantitative Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Genome‐wide association studies (GWASs) have identified thousands of
genetic variants that are associated with many complex traits. However, their biological …

Transcriptional mediators of treatment resistance in lethal prostate cancer

MX He, MS Cuoco, J Crowdis, A Bosma-Moody… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer is typically lethal, exhibiting intrinsic or
acquired resistance to second-generation androgen-targeting therapies and minimal …

Transcriptome-wide association analyses reveal the impact of regulatory variants on rice panicle architecture and causal gene regulatory networks

L Ming, D Fu, Z Wu, H Zhao, X Xu, T Xu, X **ong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Panicle architecture is a key determinant of rice grain yield and is mainly determined at the 1-
2 mm young panicle stage. Here, we investigated the transcriptome of the 1-2 mm young …

PWAS: proteome-wide association study—linking genes and phenotypes by functional variation in proteins

N Brandes, N Linial, M Linial - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract We introduce Proteome-Wide Association Study (PWAS), a new method for
detecting gene-phenotype associations mediated by protein function alterations. PWAS …

Genetic imputation of kidney transcriptome, proteome and multi-omics illuminates new blood pressure and hypertension targets

X Xu, C Khunsriraksakul, JM Eales, S Rubin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic mechanisms of blood pressure (BP) regulation remain poorly defined. Using kidney-
specific epigenomic annotations and 3D genome information we generated and validated …

Prioritization of potential causative genes for schizophrenia in placenta

G Ursini, P Di Carlo, S Mukherjee, Q Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Our earlier work has shown that genomic risk for schizophrenia converges with early life
complications in affecting risk for the disorder and sex-biased neurodevelopmental …