Endometriosis: Etiology, pathobiology, and therapeutic prospects

PTK Saunders, AW Horne - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with infertility that causes chronic pain in
many, but not all, women. It is defined by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the …

Demystifying the manipulation of host immunity, metabolism, and extraintestinal tumors by the gut microbiome

Z Zhang, H Tang, P Chen, H **e, Y Tao - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
The trillions of microorganisms in the gut microbiome have attracted much attention recently
owing to their sophisticated and widespread impacts on numerous aspects of host …

webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study

C Cao, J Wang, D Kwok, F Cui, Z Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The development of transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) has enabled
researchers to better identify and interpret causal genes in many diseases. However, there …

Integrating human brain proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates new proteins in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

AP Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, J Gockley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci for Alzheimer's
disease (AD),, but how these loci confer AD risk is unclear. Here, we aimed to identify loci …

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

H Zhang, TU Ahearn, J Lecarpentier, D Barnes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor
subtype,–. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including …

Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels

DW Yao, LJ O'connor, AL Price, A Gusev - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Disease variants identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) tend to overlap
with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), but it remains unclear whether this overlap is …

Exploiting the GTEx resources to decipher the mechanisms at GWAS loci

AN Barbeira, R Bonazzola, ER Gamazon, Y Liang… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
The resources generated by the GTEx consortium offer unprecedented opportunities to
advance our understanding of the biology of human diseases. Here, we present an in-depth …

Brain proteome-wide association study implicates novel proteins in depression pathogenesis

TS Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, J Gockley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Depression is a common condition, but current treatments are only effective in a subset of
individuals. To identify new treatment targets, we integrated depression genome-wide …

Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing

F Chen, X Wang, SK Jang, BC Quach… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) so far focus on European ancestry
and lack diversity. To overcome this limitation, we aggregated genome-wide association …

Isoform-level transcriptome-wide association uncovers genetic risk mechanisms for neuropsychiatric disorders in the human brain

A Bhattacharya, DD Vo, C Jops, M Kim, C Wen… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Methods integrating genetics with transcriptomic reference panels prioritize risk genes and
mechanisms at only a fraction of trait-associated genetic loci, due in part to an overreliance …