Multi-omics approaches to disease

Y Hasin, M Seldin, A Lusis - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
High-throughput technologies have revolutionized medical research. The advent of
genoty** arrays enabled large-scale genome-wide association studies and methods for …

Metabolomics: beyond biomarkers and towards mechanisms

CH Johnson, J Ivanisevic, G Siuzdak - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2016 - nature.com
Metabolomics, which is the profiling of metabolites in biofluids, cells and tissues, is routinely
applied as a tool for biomarker discovery. Owing to innovative developments in informatics …

A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

S Sakaue, M Kanai, Y Tanigawa, J Karjalainen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Current genome-wide association studies do not yet capture sufficient diversity in
populations and scope of phenotypes. To expand an atlas of genetic associations in non …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

Genomic atlas of the plasma metabolome prioritizes metabolites implicated in human diseases

Y Chen, T Lu, U Pettersson-Kymmer, ID Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic processes can influence disease risk and provide therapeutic targets. By
conducting genome-wide association studies of 1,091 blood metabolites and 309 metabolite …

Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

A Kurilshikov, C Medina-Gomez, R Bacigalupe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To study the effect of host genetics on gut microbiome composition, the MiBioGen
consortium curated and analyzed genome-wide genotypes and 16S fecal microbiome data …

The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

G Hemani, J Zheng, B Elsworth, KH Wade… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Results from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) can be used to infer causal
relationships between phenotypes, using a strategy known as 2-sample Mendelian …

Map** the proteo-genomic convergence of human diseases

M Pietzner, E Wheeler, J Carrasco-Zanini, A Cortes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Proteins are essential functional units of the human body and represent
the largest class of drug targets. RATIONALE Broad-capture proteomics has the potential to …

Influence of the microbiome, diet and genetics on inter-individual variation in the human plasma metabolome

L Chen, DV Zhernakova, A Kurilshikov… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The levels of the thousands of metabolites in the human plasma metabolome are strongly
influenced by an individual's genetics and the composition of their diet and gut microbiome …

The MRC IEU OpenGWAS data infrastructure

B Elsworth, M Lyon, T Alexander, Y Liu, P Matthews… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Data generated by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are growing fast with the
linkage of biobank samples to health records, and expanding capture of high-dimensional …