Bridging the genomic data gap in Africa: implications for global disease burdens

OE Omotoso, JO Teibo, FA Atiba, T Oladimeji… - Globalization and …, 2022 - Springer
This paper highlights the gap in the use of genomic data of Africans for global research
efforts for disease cures. Genomic data represents an important tool used in disease …

Understanding biases and disparities in radiology AI datasets: a review

S Tripathi, K Gabriel, S Dheer, A Parajuli… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Elsevier
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to show great potential in disease detection and
diagnosis on medical imaging with increasingly high accuracy. An important component of …

[HTML][HTML] Uganda genome resource enables insights into population history and genomic discovery in Africa

D Gurdasani, T Carstensen, S Fatumo, G Chen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genomic studies in African populations provide unique opportunities to understand disease
etiology, human diversity, and population history. In the largest study of its kind, comprising …

Host and microbiome genome-wide association studies: current state and challenges

D Awany, I Allali, S Dalvie, S Hemmings… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The involvement of the microbiome in health and disease is well established. Microbiome
genome-wide association studies (mGWAS) are used to elucidate the interaction of host …

Alcohol dependence genetics: lessons learned from genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) and post‐GWAS analyses

AB Hart, HR Kranzler - Alcoholism: clinical and experimental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Alcohol dependence (AD) is a complex psychiatric disorder and a significant
public health problem. Twin and family‐based studies have consistently estimated its …

Gut microbiome features associated with liver fibrosis in Hispanics, a population at high risk for fatty liver disease

SY Kwan, J Jiao, A Joon, P Wei, LE Petty… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Hispanics are disproportionately affected by NAFLD, liver
fibrosis, cirrhosis, and HCC. Preventive strategies and noninvasive means to identify those …

Gut microbiome alterations associated with diabetes in Mexican Americans in South Texas

SY Kwan, CM Sabotta, A Joon, P Wei, LE Petty… - Msystems, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Mexican Americans have a high prevalence of diabetes and burden of diabetes-related
complications, highlighting the need for novel preventive strategies and noninvasive …

Potential use of clinical polygenic risk scores in psychiatry–ethical implications and communicating high polygenic risk

AC Palk, S Dalvie, J De Vries, AR Martin… - Philosophy, Ethics, and …, 2019 - Springer
Psychiatric disorders present distinct clinical challenges which are partly attributable to their
multifactorial aetiology and the absence of laboratory tests that can be used to confirm …

Multi-ancestry meta-analysis of host genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis identifies shared genetic architecture

H Schurz, V Naranbhai, TA Yates, JJ Gilchrist, T Parks… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The heritability of susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) disease has been well recognized. Over
100 genes have been studied as candidates for TB susceptibility, and several variants were …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in clinics: Fantasy or reality for cancer?

S Srinivasan, JA Clements, J Batra - Critical reviews in clinical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been classically used for dissecting various
human complex disorders using candidate gene studies. During the last decade, large scale …