Making sense of GWAS: using epigenomics and genome engineering to understand the functional relevance of SNPs in non-coding regions of the human genome

YG Tak, PJ Farnham - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2015‏ - Springer
Considerable progress towards an understanding of complex diseases has been made in
recent years due to the development of high-throughput genoty** technologies. Using …

The role of HOX transcription factors in cancer predisposition and progression

B Li, Q Huang, GH Wei - Cancers, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Homeobox (HOX) transcription factors, encoded by a subset of homeodomain superfamily
genes, play pivotal roles in many aspects of cellular physiology, embryonic development …

Trans-ethnic meta-regression of genome-wide association studies accounting for ancestry increases power for discovery and improves fine-map** resolution

R Mägi, M Horikoshi, T Sofer, A Mahajan… - Human molecular …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Trans-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) across diverse
populations can increase power to detect complex trait loci when the underlying causal …

Modulation of long noncoding RNAs by risk SNPs underlying genetic predispositions to prostate cancer

H Guo, M Ahmed, F Zhang, CQ Yao, SD Li, Y Liang… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent an attractive class of candidates to mediate
cancer risk. Through integrative analysis of the lncRNA transcriptome with genomic data and …

Charting the future of cancer health disparities research: a position statement from the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society, the …

BN Polite, LL Adams-Campbell, OW Brawley… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017‏ - ascopubs.org
The academic field of cancer health disparities was stimulated by the US civil rights
movement. Concerns about civil rights led to concerns about equality in health care. The first …

Post-GWAS in prostate cancer: from genetic association to biological contribution

S Farashi, T Kryza, J Clements, J Batra - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019‏ - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been successful in deciphering the genetic
component of predisposition to many human complex diseases including prostate cancer …

A biallelic multiple nucleotide length polymorphism explains functional causality at 5p15. 33 prostate cancer risk locus

S Spisak, V Tisza, PV Nuzzo, JH Seo, B Pataki… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
To date, single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been the most intensively
investigated class of polymorphisms in genome wide associations studies (GWAS) …

Fine-map** of prostate cancer susceptibility loci in a large meta-analysis identifies candidate causal variants

T Dadaev, EJ Saunders, PJ Newcombe… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Prostate cancer is a polygenic disease with a large heritable component. A number of
common, low-penetrance prostate cancer risk loci have been identified through GWAS. Here …

CAUSEL: an epigenome-and genome-editing pipeline for establishing function of noncoding GWAS variants

S Spisák, K Lawrenson, Y Fu, I Csabai, RT Cottman… - Nature medicine, 2015‏ - nature.com
The vast majority of disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) mapped
by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are located in the non-protein-coding …