Multi-omics approaches to disease

Y Hasin, M Seldin, A Lusis - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
High-throughput technologies have revolutionized medical research. The advent of
genoty** arrays enabled large-scale genome-wide association studies and methods for …

The role of regulatory variation in complex traits and disease

FW Albert, L Kruglyak - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
We are in a phase of unprecedented progress in identifying genetic loci that cause variation
in traits ranging from growth and fitness in simple organisms to disease in humans …

Proteogenomic characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

B Zhang, J Wang, X Wang, J Zhu, Q Liu, Z Shi… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Extensive genomic characterization of human cancers presents the problem of inference
from genomic abnormalities to cancer phenotypes. To address this problem, we analysed …

Targeting the translation machinery in cancer

M Bhat, N Robichaud, L Hulea, N Sonenberg… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Dysregulation of mRNA translation is a frequent feature of neoplasia. Many oncogenes and
tumour suppressors affect the translation machinery, making aberrant translation a …

CD47-blocking antibodies restore phagocytosis and prevent atherosclerosis

Y Kojima, JP Volkmer, K McKenna, M Civelek, AJ Lusis… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Atherosclerosis is the disease process that underlies heart attack and stroke. Advanced
lesions at risk of rupture are characterized by the pathological accumulation of diseased …

Phenotypic impact of genomic structural variation: insights from and for human disease

J Weischenfeldt, O Symmons, F Spitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Genomic structural variants have long been implicated in phenotypic diversity and human
disease, but dissecting the mechanisms by which they exert their functional impact has …

Integration of omic networks in a developmental atlas of maize

JW Walley, RC Sartor, Z Shen, RJ Schmitz, KJ Wu… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Coexpression networks and gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are emerging as important
tools for predicting functional roles of individual genes at a system-wide scale. To enable …

Systems genetics approaches to understand complex traits

M Civelek, AJ Lusis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Systems genetics is an approach to understand the flow of biological information
that underlies complex traits. It uses a range of experimental and statistical methods to …

Integrative analysis of multi-omics data for discovery and functional studies of complex human diseases

YV Sun, YJ Hu - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Complex and dynamic networks of molecules are involved in human diseases. High-
throughput technologies enable omics studies interrogating thousands to millions of makers …

Signaling pathways involved in the regulation of mRNA translation

PP Roux, I Topisirovic - Molecular and cellular biology, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Translation is a key step in the regulation of gene expression and one of the most energy-
consuming processes in the cell. In response to various stimuli, multiple signaling pathways …