Heart disease and stroke statistics—2022 update: a report from the American Heart Association

CW Tsao, AW Aday, ZI Almarzooq, A Alonso… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency

JW Nelson, PB Randolph, SP Shen, KA Everette… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prime editing enables the installation of virtually any combination of point mutations, small
insertions or small deletions in the DNA of living cells. A prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) …

Unconstrained genome targeting with near-PAMless engineered CRISPR-Cas9 variants

RT Walton, KA Christie, MN Whittaker, BP Kleinstiver - Science, 2020 - science.org
Manipulation of DNA by CRISPR-Cas enzymes requires the recognition of a protospacer-
adjacent motif (PAM), limiting target site recognition to a subset of sequences. To remove …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2021 update: a report from the American Heart Association

SS Virani, A Alonso, HJ Aparicio, EJ Benjamin… - Circulation, 2021 - ahajournals.org
Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus

RA DeFronzo, E Ferrannini, L Groop… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is an expanding global health problem, closely linked to
the epidemic of obesity. Individuals with T2DM are at high risk for both microvascular …

A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …

A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

LG Fritsche, W Igl, JNC Bailey, F Grassmann… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the
elderly, with limited therapeutic options. Here we report on a study of> 12 million variants …

[HTML][HTML] Diabetes mellitus: The epidemic of the century

AT Kharroubi, HM Darwish - World journal of diabetes, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The epidemic nature of diabetes mellitus in different regions is reviewed. The Middle East
and North Africa region has the highest prevalence of diabetes in adults (10.9%) whereas …

10 years of GWAS discovery: biology, function, and translation

PM Visscher, NR Wray, Q Zhang, P Sklar… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Application of the experimental design of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is now
10 years old (young), and here we review the remarkable range of discoveries it has …