Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

JJ Lee, R Wedow, A Okbay, E Kong, O Maghzian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a
sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate human erythropoiesis

AL Caulier, VG Sankaran - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
To enable effective oxygen transport,∼ 200 billion red blood cells (RBCs) need to be
produced every day in the bone marrow through the fine-tuned process of erythropoiesis …

Emerging genetic therapy for sickle cell disease

SH Orkin, DE Bauer - Annual review of medicine, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The genetic basis of sickle cell disease (SCD) was elucidated> 60 years ago, yet current
therapy does not rely on this knowledge. Recent advances raise prospects for improved …

Single-cell analyses identify brain mural cells expressing CD19 as potential off-tumor targets for CAR-T immunotherapies

KR Parker, D Migliorini, E Perkey, KE Yost, A Bhaduri… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
CD19-directed immunotherapies are clinically effective for treating B cell malignancies but
also cause a high incidence of neurotoxicity. A subset of patients treated with chimeric …

Direct promoter repression by BCL11A controls the fetal to adult hemoglobin switch

N Liu, VV Hargreaves, Q Zhu, JV Kurland, J Hong… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Fetal hemoglobin (HbF, α 2 γ 2) level is genetically controlled and modifies severity of adult
hemoglobin (HbA, α 2 β 2) disorders, sickle cell disease, and β-thalassemia. Common …

Leveraging polygenic enrichments of gene features to predict genes underlying complex traits and diseases

EM Weeks, JC Ulirsch, NY Cheng, BL Trippe, RS Fine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are a valuable tool for understanding the
biology of complex human traits and diseases, but associated variants rarely point directly to …

GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

JW Trampush, MLZ Yang, J Yu, E Knowles… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
The complex nature of human cognition has resulted in cognitive genomics lagging behind
many other fields in terms of gene discovery using genome-wide association study (GWAS) …

Quantifying the contribution of recessive coding variation to developmental disorders

HC Martin, WD Jones, R McIntyre, G Sanchez-Andrade… - Science, 2018 - science.org
We estimated the genome-wide contribution of recessive coding variation in 6040 families
from the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study. The proportion of cases attributable to …

A set of regulatory genes co-expressed in embryonic human brain is implicated in disrupted speech development

E Eising, A Carrion-Castillo, A Vino, EA Strand… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic investigations of people with impaired development of spoken language provide
windows into key aspects of human biology. Over 15 years after FOXP2 was identified, most …

Cultural evolution of genetic heritability

R Uchiyama, R Spicer… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …