Genetics and epigenetics in asthma

P Ntontsi, A Photiades, E Zervas, G Xanthou… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Asthma is one of the most common respiratory disease that affects both children and adults
worldwide, with diverse phenotypes and underlying pathogenetic mechanisms poorly …

Human genetics and malaria resistance

SN Kariuki, TN Williams - Human genetics, 2020 - Springer
Malaria has been the pre-eminent cause of early mortality in many parts of the world
throughout much of the last five thousand years and, as a result, it is the strongest force for …

Evaluating the promise of inclusion of African ancestry populations in genomics

AR Bentley, SL Callier, CN Rotimi - NPJ genomic medicine, 2020 - nature.com
The lack of representation of diverse ancestral backgrounds in genomic research is well-
known, and the resultant scientific and ethical limitations are becoming increasingly …

Characterizing the genetic architecture of Parkinson's disease in Latinos

DP Loesch, ARVR Horimoto, K Heilbron… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This work was undertaken in order to identify Parkinson's disease (PD) risk
variants in a Latino cohort, to describe the overlap in the genetic architecture of PD in …

Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations

M Daya, N Rafaels, TM Brunetti, S Chavan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Asthma is a complex disease with striking disparities across racial and ethnic groups.
Despite its relatively high burden, representation of individuals of African ancestry in asthma …

Building a vertically integrated genomic learning health system: The biobank at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine

LK Wiley, JA Shortt, ER Roberts, J Lowery… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Precision medicine initiatives across the globe have led to a revolution of repositories linking
large-scale genomic data with electronic health records, enabling genomic analyses across …

Clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics via a health system-wide research biobank: the University of Colorado experience

CL Aquilante, DP Kao, KE Trinkley, CT Lin… - …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, the genomics community has witnessed the growth of large research
biobanks, which collect DNA samples for research purposes. Depending on how and where …

Heterogeneous genetic architectures of prostate cancer susceptibility in sub-Saharan Africa

R Janivara, WC Chen, U Hazra, S Baichoo, I Agalliu… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Men of African descent have the highest prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates, yet
the genetic basis of prostate cancer in African men has been understudied. We used …

Genome-wide association studies of severe P. falciparum malaria susceptibility: progress, pitfalls and prospects

D Damena, A Denis, L Golassa, ER Chimusa - BMC medical genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background P. falciparum malaria has been recognized as one of the prominent
evolutionary selective forces of human genome that led to the emergence of multiple host …

Polygenic prediction of atopic dermatitis improves with atopic training and filaggrin factors

CH Arehart, M Daya, M Campbell, MP Boorgula… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background While numerous genetic loci associated with atopic dermatitis (AD) have been
discovered, to date, work leveraging the combined burden of AD risk variants across the …