A tutorial on conducting genome‐wide association studies: Quality control and statistical analysis

AT Marees, H De Kluiver, S Stringer… - … journal of methods …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have become increasingly popular to
identify associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and phenotypic …

Structural variation in the 3D genome

M Spielmann, DG Lupiáñez, S Mundlos - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Structural and quantitative chromosomal rearrangements, collectively referred to as
structural variation (SV), contribute to a large extent to the genetic diversity of the human …

Next-generation genotype imputation service and methods

S Das, L Forer, S Schönherr, C Sidore, AE Locke… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genotype imputation is a key component of genetic association studies, where it increases
power, facilitates meta-analysis, and aids interpretation of signals. Genotype imputation is …

A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

Nature genetics, 2016 - nature.com
We describe a reference panel of 64,976 human haplotypes at 39,235,157 SNPs
constructed using whole-genome sequence data from 20 studies of predominantly …

Influence of the microbiome, diet and genetics on inter-individual variation in the human plasma metabolome

L Chen, DV Zhernakova, A Kurilshikov… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The levels of the thousands of metabolites in the human plasma metabolome are strongly
influenced by an individual's genetics and the composition of their diet and gut microbiome …

Organoid models of human and mouse ductal pancreatic cancer

SF Boj, CI Hwang, LA Baker, IIC Chio, DD Engle… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies due to its late diagnosis and limited
response to treatment. Tractable methods to identify and interrogate pathways involved in …

An organoid platform for ovarian cancer captures intra-and interpatient heterogeneity

O Kopper, CJ De Witte, K Lõhmussaar… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is a heterogeneous disease usually diagnosed at a late stage.
Experimental in vitro models that faithfully capture the hallmarks and tumor heterogeneity of …

The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

Statistics group Ciampi Antonio 8 Greenwood Celia MT … - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The contribution of rare and low-frequency variants to human traits is largely unexplored.
Here we describe insights from sequencing whole genomes (low read depth, 7×) or exomes …

Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation

C Roselli, MD Chaffin, LC Weng, S Aeschbacher… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide and has a complex
heritability. We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies …

From the genetic architecture to synaptic plasticity in autism spectrum disorder

T Bourgeron - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Genetics studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have identified several risk genes that
are key regulators of synaptic plasticity. Indeed, many of the risk genes that have been …