Induced mammary cancer in rat models: Pathogenesis, genetics, and relevance to female breast cancer

JL Miller, AP Bartlett, RM Harman, PD Majhi… - Journal of Mammary …, 2022 - Springer
Mammary cancer, or breast cancer in women, is a polygenic disease with a complex
etiopathogenesis. While much remains elusive regarding its origin, it is well established that …

A joint transcriptome-wide association study across multiple tissues identifies candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes

G Gao, PN Fiorica, J McClellan, AN Barbeira… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 200 genomic loci for
breast cancer risk, but specific causal genes in most of these loci have not been identified. In …

Going broad and deep: sequencing‐driven insights into plant physiology, evolution, and crop domestication

S Gui, FJ Martinez‐Rivas, W Wen, M Meng… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deep sequencing is a term that has become embedded in the plant genomic literature in
recent years and with good reason. A torrent of (largely) high‐quality genomic and …

Integrating transcription factor occupancy with transcriptome-wide association analysis identifies susceptibility genes in human cancers

J He, W Wen, A Beeghly, Z Chen, C Cao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have successfully discovered many
putative disease susceptibility genes. However, TWAS may suffer from inaccuracy of gene …

Genome-and transcriptome-wide association studies of 386,000 Asian and European-ancestry women provide new insights into breast cancer genetics

G Jia, J **, X Shu, Y Yang, Q Cai, SS Kweon… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
By combining data from 160,500 individuals with breast cancer and 226,196 controls of
Asian and European ancestry, we conducted genome-and transcriptome-wide association …

A multi-tissue, splicing-based joint transcriptome-wide association study identifies susceptibility genes for breast cancer

G Gao, J McClellan, AN Barbeira, PN Fiorica… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Splicing-based transcriptome-wide association studies (splicing-TWASs) of breast cancer
have the potential to identify susceptibility genes. However, existing splicing-TWASs test the …

SR-TWAS: leveraging multiple reference panels to improve transcriptome-wide association study power by ensemble machine learning

RL Parrish, AS Buchman, S Tasaki, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Multiple reference panels of a given tissue or multiple tissues often exist, and multiple
regression methods could be used for training gene expression imputation models for …

MiXcan: a framework for cell-type-aware transcriptome-wide association studies with an application to breast cancer

X Song, J Ji, JH Rothstein, SE Alexeeff… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Human bulk tissue samples comprise multiple cell types with diverse roles in disease
etiology. Conventional transcriptome-wide association study approaches predict genetically …

eQTL colocalization analyses identify NTN4 as a candidate breast cancer risk gene

J Beesley, H Sivakumaran, MM Marjaneh, W Shi… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Breast cancer genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified 150 genomic risk
regions containing more than 13,000 credible causal variants (CCVs). The CCVs are …

Refining breast cancer genetic risk and biology through multi-ancestry fine-map** analyses of 192 risk regions

G Jia, Z Chen, J **, Q Cai, R Tao, C Li, JA Bauer… - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified approximately 200 genetic risk loci for
breast cancer, but the causal variants and target genes are mostly unknown. We sought to …