From genome-wide associations to candidate causal variants by statistical fine-map**

DJ Schaid, W Chen, NB Larson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Advancing from statistical associations of complex traits with genetic markers to
understanding the functional genetic variants that influence traits is often a complex process …

From GWAS to gene: transcriptome-wide association studies and other methods to functionally understand GWAS discoveries

B Li, MD Ritchie - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since their inception, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than a
hundred thousand single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci that are associated with …

On the origin and continuing evolution of SARS-CoV-2

X Tang, C Wu, X Li, Y Song, X Yao, X Wu… - National science …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic started in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since
impacted a large portion of China and raised major global concern. Herein, we investigated …

SARS-CoV-2 genomic variations associated with mortality rate of COVID-19

Y Toyoshima, K Nemoto, S Matsumoto… - Journal of human …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has
rapidly expanded to a global pandemic. However, numbers of infected cases, deaths, and …

Common genetic variants and modifiable risk factors underpin hypertrophic cardiomyopathy susceptibility and expressivity

AR Harper, A Goel, C Grace, KL Thomson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common, serious, genetic heart disorder. Rare
pathogenic variants in sarcomere genes cause HCM, but with unexplained phenotypic …

PopLDdecay: a fast and effective tool for linkage disequilibrium decay analysis based on variant call format files

C Zhang, SS Dong, JY Xu, WM He, TL Yang - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay is of great interest in population genetic
studies. However, no tool is available now to do LD decay analysis from variant call format …

Genomic selection and genetic architecture of agronomic traits during modern rapeseed breeding

J Hu, B Chen, J Zhao, F Zhang, T **e, K Xu, G Gao… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important oil-producing crop for the world. Its
adaptation, yield and quality have been considerably improved in recent decades, but the …

Rewiring of the fruit metabolome in tomato breeding

G Zhu, S Wang, Z Huang, S Zhang, Q Liao, C Zhang… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Humans heavily rely on dozens of domesticated plant species that have been further
improved through intensive breeding. To evaluate how breeding changed the tomato fruit …

A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome

M Mascher, H Gundlach, A Himmelbach, S Beier… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cereal grasses of the Triticeae tribe have been the major food source in temperate regions
since the dawn of agriculture. Their large genomes are characterized by a high content of …

Resequencing of 243 diploid cotton accessions based on an updated A genome identifies the genetic basis of key agronomic traits

X Du, G Huang, S He, Z Yang, G Sun, X Ma, N Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The ancestors of Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium herbaceum provided the A
subgenome for the modern cultivated allotetraploid cotton. Here, we upgraded the G …