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 …

From GWAS to function: using functional genomics to identify the mechanisms underlying complex diseases

E Cano-Gamez, G Trynka - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully mapped thousands of loci
associated with complex traits. These associations could reveal the molecular mechanisms …

Plasma proteomic associations with genetics and health in the UK Biobank

BB Sun, J Chiou, M Traylor, C Benner, YH Hsu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Pharma Proteomics Project is a precompetitive biopharmaceutical consortium
characterizing the plasma proteomic profiles of 54,219 UK Biobank participants. Here we …

Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets

JH Zhao, D Stacey, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating proteins have important functions in inflammation and a broad range of diseases.
To identify genetic influences on inflammation-related proteins, we conducted a genome …

A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

Nature genetics, 2016 - nature.com
We describe a reference panel of 64,976 human haplotypes at 39,235,157 SNPs
constructed using whole-genome sequence data from 20 studies of predominantly …

Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals

L Folkersen, S Gustafsson, Q Wang, DH Hansen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Circulating proteins are vital in human health and disease and are frequently used as
biomarkers for clinical decision-making or as targets for pharmacological intervention. Here …

Genomic atlas of the human plasma proteome

BB Sun, JC Maranville, JE Peters, D Stacey, JR Staley… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Although plasma proteins have important roles in biological processes and are the direct
targets of many drugs, the genetic factors that control inter-individual variation in plasma …

Pangenome-based genome inference allows efficient and accurate genoty** across a wide spectrum of variant classes

J Ebler, P Ebert, WE Clarke, T Rausch, PA Audano… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Typical genoty** workflows map reads to a reference genome before identifying genetic
variants. Generating such alignments introduces reference biases and comes with …

Associations between blood type and COVID-19 infection, intubation, and death

M Zietz, J Zucker, NP Tatonetti - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has strained healthcare and
testing resources, making the identification and prioritization of individuals most at-risk a …

Genetics meets proteomics: perspectives for large population-based studies

K Suhre, MI McCarthy, JM Schwenk - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Proteomic analysis of cells, tissues and body fluids has generated valuable insights into the
complex processes influencing human biology. Proteins represent intermediate phenotypes …