Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analyses reveal downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases

N de Klein, EA Tsai, M Vochteloo, D Baird, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Identification of therapeutic targets from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) requires
insights into downstream functional consequences. We harmonized 8,613 RNA-sequencing …

Functional characterization of genetic variant effects on expression

ED Flynn, T Lappalainen - Annual Review of Biomedical Data …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Thousands of common genetic variants in the human population have been associated with
disease risk and phenotypic variation by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) …

Benchmarking brain organoid recapitulation of fetal corticogenesis

C Cheroni, S Trattaro, N Caporale… - Translational …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Brain organoids are becoming increasingly relevant to dissect the molecular mechanisms
underlying psychiatric and neurological conditions. The in vitro recapitulation of key features …

Bulk and single-nucleus transcriptomics highlight intra-telencephalic and somatostatin neurons in Alzheimer's disease

ME Consens, Y Chen, V Menon, Y Wang… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Cortical neuron loss is a pathological hallmark of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).
However, it remains unclear which neuronal subtypes beyond broad excitatory and …

Benchmark of cellular deconvolution methods using a multi-assay reference dataset from postmortem human prefrontal cortex

LA Huuki-Myers, KD Montgomery, SH Kwon… - BioRxiv, 2024‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Cellular deconvolution of bulk RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data using single
cell or nuclei RNA-seq (sc/snRNA-seq) reference data is an important strategy for estimating …

Applications of single-cell genomics and computational strategies to study common disease and population-level variation

BJ Auerbach, J Hu, MP Reilly, M Li - Genome Research, 2021‏ - genome.cshlp.org
The advent and rapid development of single-cell technologies have made it possible to
study cellular heterogeneity at an unprecedented resolution and scale. Cellular …

Allele-specific analysis reveals exon-and cell-type-specific regulatory effects of Alzheimer's disease-associated genetic variants

L He, Y Loika, AM Kulminski - Translational Psychiatry, 2022‏ - nature.com
Elucidating regulatory effects of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated genetic variants is
critical for unraveling their causal pathways and understanding the pathology. However …

Differences in molecular sampling and data processing explain variation among single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq experiments

JT Chamberlin, Y Lee, GT Marth… - Genome Research, 2024‏ - genome.cshlp.org
A mechanistic understanding of the biological and technical factors that impact transcript
measurements is essential to designing and analyzing single-cell and single-nucleus RNA …

Detecting the effect of genetic diversity on brain composition in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

B Gurdon, SC Yates, G Csucs, NE Groeneboom… - Communications …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is broadly characterized by neurodegeneration, pathology
accumulation, and cognitive decline. There is considerable variation in the progression of …

Cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease characterized by cell‐type abundance

N O'Neill, TD Stein, OA Olayinka… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION The molecular basis of cognitive resilience (CR) among pathologically
confirmed Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases is not well understood. METHODS Abundance of …