Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease

PF Sullivan, JRS Meadows, S Gazal, BDN Phan, X Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but
attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which …

Functional characterization of Alzheimer's disease genetic variants in microglia

X Yang, J Wen, H Yang, IR Jones, X Zhu, W Liu, B Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in microglia demonstrate the most substantial
enrichment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) heritability compared to other brain cell types …

Shared genetic risk loci between Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

M Wainberg, SJ Andrews, SJ Tripathy - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2023 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have indicated moderate genetic
overlap between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD), Parkinson's …

Genetic variants associated with hidradenitis suppurativa

Q Sun, KA Broadaway, SN Edmiston… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a common and severely morbid chronic
inflammatory skin disease that is reported to be highly heritable. However, the genetic …

Molecular and genetic insights into human ovarian aging from single-nuclei multi-omics analyses

C **, X Wang, J Yang, S Kim, AD Hudgins, A Gamliel… - Nature aging, 2024 - nature.com
The ovary is the first organ to age in the human body, affecting both fertility and overall
health. However, the biological mechanisms underlying human ovarian aging remain poorly …

Understanding the function of regulatory DNA interactions in the interpretation of non-coding GWAS variants

W Zhong, W Liu, J Chen, Q Sun, M Hu… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a vast number of variants
associated with various complex human diseases and traits. However, most of these GWAS …

Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral-differential effects via GAUDI

Q Sun, BT Rowland, J Chen, AV Mikhaylova… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have shown successes in clinics, but most PRS methods focus
only on participants with distinct primary continental ancestry without accommodating …

Eye-brain connections revealed by multimodal retinal and brain imaging genetics

B Zhao, Y Li, Z Fan, Z Wu, J Shu, X Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The retina, an anatomical extension of the brain, forms physiological connections with the
visual cortex of the brain. Although retinal structures offer a unique opportunity to assess …

Accurate and efficient estimation of local heritability using summary statistics and the linkage disequilibrium matrix

H Li, R Mazumder, X Lin - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Existing SNP-heritability estimators that leverage summary statistics from genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) are much less efficient (ie, have larger standard errors) than the …

Unveiling the genetic landscape of coronary artery disease through common and rare structural variants

KR Iyer, SL Clarke, R Guarischi‐Sousa… - Journal of the …, 2025 - ahajournals.org
Background Genome‐wide association studies have identified several hundred
susceptibility single nucleotide variants for coronary artery disease (CAD). Despite single …