Transcriptome-wide association studies: recent advances in methods, applications and available databases

J Mai, M Lu, Q Gao, J Zeng, J **ao - Communications Biology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Genome-wide association study has identified fruitful variants impacting heritable traits.
Nevertheless, identifying critical genes underlying those significant variants has been a …

From GWAS to gene: transcriptome-wide association studies and other methods to functionally understand GWAS discoveries

B Li, MD Ritchie - Frontiers in genetics, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Since their inception, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than a
hundred thousand single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci that are associated with …

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 …

Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease

W Zhou, M Kanai, KHH Wu, H Rasheed, K Tsuo… - Cell genomics, 2022‏ - cell.com
Biobanks facilitate genome-wide association studies (GWASs), which have mapped
genomic loci across a range of human diseases and traits. However, most biobanks are …

Adjusting for genetic confounders in transcriptome-wide association studies improves discovery of risk genes of complex traits

S Zhao, W Crouse, S Qian, K Luo, M Stephens, X He - Nature Genetics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Many methods have been developed to leverage expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL)
data to nominate candidate genes from genome-wide association studies. These methods …

SLC25A39 is necessary for mitochondrial glutathione import in mammalian cells

Y Wang, FS Yen, XG Zhu, RC Timson, R Weber, C **ng… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Glutathione (GSH) is a small-molecule thiol that is abundant in all eukaryotes and has key
roles in oxidative metabolism. Mitochondria, as the major site of oxidative reactions, must …

Role of the gut-brain axis in the shared genetic etiology between gastrointestinal tract diseases and psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide pleiotropic analysis

W Gong, P Guo, Y Li, L Liu, R Yan, S Liu… - JAMA …, 2023‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Comorbidities and genetic correlations between gastrointestinal tract diseases
and psychiatric disorders have been widely reported, with the gut-brain axis (GBA) …

Alternative polyadenylation transcriptome-wide association study identifies APA-linked susceptibility genes in brain disorders

Y Cui, FJ Arnold, F Peng, D Wang, JS Li… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) plays an essential role in brain development; however,
current transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) largely overlook APA in nominating …

TWAS Atlas: a curated knowledgebase of transcriptome-wide association studies

M Lu, Y Zhang, F Yang, J Mai, Q Gao, X Xu… - Nucleic acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs), as a practical and prevalent approach for
detecting the associations between genetically regulated genes and traits, are now leading …

Metabolic gene function discovery platform GeneMAP identifies SLC25A48 as necessary for mitochondrial choline import

A Khan, G Unlu, P Lin, Y Liu, E Kilic, TC Kenny… - Nature Genetics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Organisms maintain metabolic homeostasis through the combined functions of small-
molecule transporters and enzymes. While many metabolic components have been well …