Multi-ancestry fine-map** improves precision to identify causal genes in transcriptome-wide association studies

Z Lu, S Gopalan, D Yuan, DV Conti, B Pasaniuc… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) are a powerful approach to identify genes
whose expression is associated with complex disease risk. However, non-causal genes can …

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in CD36 are associated with macular pigment among children

GJ Handelman, SK Handelman - The Journal of Nutrition, 2021 - jn.nutrition.org
In this issue of the Journal of Nutrition, Liu et al.(1) report a difference in macular pigment
optical density (MPOD) associated with a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) …