Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

Advancing human genetics research and drug discovery through exome sequencing of the UK Biobank

JD Szustakowski, S Balasubramanian, E Kvikstad… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The UK Biobank Exome Sequencing Consortium (UKB-ESC) is a private–public
partnership between the UK Biobank (UKB) and eight biopharmaceutical companies that …

Common and rare variant associations with clonal haematopoiesis phenotypes

MD Kessler, A Damask, S O'Keeffe, N Banerjee, D Li… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal haematopoiesis involves the expansion of certain blood cell lineages and has been
associated with ageing and adverse health outcomes,,,–. Here we use exome sequence …

Estimated prevalence and clinical manifestations of UBA1 variants associated with VEXAS syndrome in a clinical population

DB Beck, DL Bodian, V Shah, UL Mirshahi, J Kim… - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance VEXAS (vacuoles, E1-ubiquitin-activating enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory,
somatic) syndrome is a disease with rheumatologic and hematologic features caused by …

Exome sequencing and analysis of 454,787 UK Biobank participants

JD Backman, AH Li, A Marcketta, D Sun, J Mbatchou… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A major goal in human genetics is to use natural variation to understand the phenotypic
consequences of altering each protein-coding gene in the genome. Here we used exome …

Disease variant prediction with deep generative models of evolutionary data

J Frazer, P Notin, M Dias, A Gomez, JK Min, K Brock… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Quantifying the pathogenicity of protein variants in human disease-related genes would
have a marked effect on clinical decisions, yet the overwhelming majority (over 98%) of …

Rare variant associations with plasma protein levels in the UK Biobank

RS Dhindsa, OS Burren, BB Sun, BP Prins, D Matelska… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Integrating human genomics and proteomics can help elucidate disease mechanisms,
identify clinical biomarkers and discover drug targets,,–. Because previous proteogenomic …

The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank

BV Halldorsson, HP Eggertsson, KHS Moore… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Detailed knowledge of how diversity in the sequence of the human genome affects
phenotypic diversity depends on a comprehensive and reliable characterization of both …

Rare variant contribution to human disease in 281,104 UK Biobank exomes

Q Wang, RS Dhindsa, K Carss, AR Harper, A Nag… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have uncovered thousands of common variants
associated with human disease, but the contribution of rare variants to common disease …

Genome-wide analyses of 200,453 individuals yield new insights into the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis

SP Kar, PM Quiros, M Gu, T Jiang, J Mitchell… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the clonal expansion of a blood stem cell and its progeny driven
by somatic driver mutations, affects over a third of people, yet remains poorly understood …