15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

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 …

The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions

N Rahmioglu, S Mortlock, M Ghiasi, PL Møller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 …

DNA methylation QTL map** across diverse human tissues provides molecular links between genetic variation and complex traits

M Oliva, K Demanelis, Y Lu, M Chernoff, F Jasmine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies of DNA methylation (DNAm) in solid human tissues are relatively scarce; tissue-
specific characterization of DNAm is needed to understand its role in gene regulation and its …

Single-nucleus cross-tissue molecular reference maps toward understanding disease gene function

G Eraslan, E Drokhlyansky, S Anand, E Fiskin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding gene function and regulation in homeostasis and disease requires
knowledge of the cellular and tissue contexts in which genes are expressed. Here, we …

Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease

H Liu, T Doke, D Guo, X Sheng, Z Ma, J Park, HMT Vy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
More than 800 million people suffer from kidney disease, yet the mechanism of kidney
dysfunction is poorly understood. In the present study, we define the genetic association with …

Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity

S Gazal, O Weissbrod, F Hormozdiari, KK Dey… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) generally do not implicate
target genes, as most disease SNPs are regulatory. Many SNP-to-gene (S2G) linking …

The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

GTEx Consortium - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project was established to characterize genetic
effects on the transcriptome across human tissues and to link these regulatory mechanisms …

The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues

M Oliva, M Muñoz-Aguirre, S Kim-Hellmuth, V Wucher… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Many complex human phenotypes, including diseases, exhibit sex-
differentiated characteristics. These sex differences have been variously attributed to …

Genetics meets proteomics: perspectives for large population-based studies

K Suhre, MI McCarthy, JM Schwenk - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Proteomic analysis of cells, tissues and body fluids has generated valuable insights into the
complex processes influencing human biology. Proteins represent intermediate phenotypes …