2025
Optimized phenotyping of complex morphological traits: enhancing discovery of common and rare genetic variants
Yuan M, Goovaerts S, Lee M, Devine J, Richmond S, Walsh S, Shriver M, Shaffer J, Marazita M, Peeters H, Weinberg S, Claes P. Optimized phenotyping of complex morphological traits: enhancing discovery of common and rare genetic variants. Briefings In Bioinformatics 2025, 26: bbaf090. PMID: 40062617, PMCID: PMC11891655, DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaf090.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRare variant association studiesGenome-wide association studiesComplex morphological traitsGenomic lociSNP heritabilityAssociation studiesRare variantsPhenotypic variationMorphological traitsAxes of phenotypic variationContext of genome-wide association studiesVariant association studiesIndividuals of European ancestryGene-based testsLinkage disequilibrium score regressionRare genetic variantsGenomic relatednessOptimal phenotypeUnrelated individualsGenetic variantsRelevant traitsEuropean ancestryScore regressionPhenotype distributionFamily data
2024
A common cis-regulatory variant impacts normal-range and disease-associated human facial shape through regulation of PKDCC during chondrogenesis
Mohammed J, Arora N, Matthews H, Hansen K, Bader M, Walsh S, Shaffer J, Weinberg S, Swigut T, Claes P, Selleri L, Wysocka J. A common cis-regulatory variant impacts normal-range and disease-associated human facial shape through regulation of PKDCC during chondrogenesis. ELife 2024, 13: e82564. PMID: 38483448, PMCID: PMC10939500, DOI: 10.7554/elife.82564.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesSingle nucleotide polymorphismsGenome-wide association study studiesDisease predispositionComplex morphological traitsEmbryonic cell typesSkull elementsCognate enhancersAssociation studiesAssociated with quantitative changesPhenotypic traitsPhenotypic variationMorphological traitsJaw shapeNucleotide polymorphismsGenetic variantsMorphological variationTyrosine kinaseCell typesNormal rangeRisk of non-syndromic orofacial cleftsFacial morphogenesisNon-syndromic orofacial cleftsHuman populationSkeletal development
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