Genetic variation across and within individuals

Z Yu, THH Coorens, MM Uddin, KG Ardlie… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Germline variation and somatic mutation are intricately connected and together shape
human traits and disease risks. Germline variants are present from conception, but they vary …

Genetics of Parkinson's disease: an introspection of its journey towards precision medicine

S Bandres-Ciga, M Diez-Fairen, JJ Kim… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT A substantial proportion of risk for Parkinson's disease (PD) is driven by
genetics. Progress in understanding the genetic basis of PD has been significant. So far …

Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation

J Linder, D Srivastava, H Yuan, V Agarwal, DR Kelley - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
Sequence-based machine-learning models trained on genomics data improve genetic
variant interpretation by providing functional predictions describing their impact on the cis …

Map** the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

Writing group Writing group leaders Pathak Gita A. 6 … - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic make-up of an individual contributes to the susceptibility and response to viral
infection. Although environmental, clinical and social factors have a role in the chance of …

Effective gene expression prediction from sequence by integrating long-range interactions

Ž Avsec, V Agarwal, D Visentin, JR Ledsam… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
How noncoding DNA determines gene expression in different cell types is a major unsolved
problem, and critical downstream applications in human genetics depend on improved …

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of insomnia prioritizes genes associated with metabolic and psychiatric pathways

K Watanabe, PR Jansen, JE Savage, P Nandakumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insomnia is a heritable, highly prevalent sleep disorder for which no sufficient treatment
currently exists. Previous genome-wide association studies with up to 1.3 million subjects …

Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity

S Gazal, O Weissbrod, F Hormozdiari, KK Dey… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) generally do not implicate
target genes, as most disease SNPs are regulatory. Many SNP-to-gene (S2G) linking …

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 …

Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease

PF Sullivan, JRS Meadows, S Gazal, BDN Phan, X Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but
attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which …