2019
Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits
Wojcik G, Graff M, Nishimura K, Tao R, Haessler J, Gignoux C, Highland H, Patel Y, Sorokin E, Avery C, Belbin G, Bien S, Cheng I, Cullina S, Hodonsky C, Hu Y, Huckins L, Jeff J, Justice A, Kocarnik J, Lim U, Lin B, Lu Y, Nelson S, Park S, Poisner H, Preuss M, Richard M, Schurmann C, Setiawan V, Sockell A, Vahi K, Verbanck M, Vishnu A, Walker R, Young K, Zubair N, Acuña-Alonso V, Ambite J, Barnes K, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger E, Bustamante C, Caberto C, Canizales-Quinteros S, Conomos M, Deelman E, Do R, Doheny K, Fernández-Rhodes L, Fornage M, Hailu B, Heiss G, Henn B, Hindorff L, Jackson R, Laurie C, Laurie C, Li Y, Lin D, Moreno-Estrada A, Nadkarni G, Norman P, Pooler L, Reiner A, Romm J, Sabatti C, Sandoval K, Sheng X, Stahl E, Stram D, Thornton T, Wassel C, Wilkens L, Winkler C, Yoneyama S, Buyske S, Haiman C, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, Loos R, Matise T, North K, Peters U, Kenny E, Carlson C. Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits. Nature 2019, 570: 514-518. PMID: 31217584, PMCID: PMC6785182, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1310-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesComplex traitsBiology of complex traitsDiverse populationsEvidence of effect-size heterogeneityGenome-wide effortsLarge-scale genomic studiesReduce health disparitiesNon-European individualsHighest burden of diseaseMulti-ethnic participantsEffect-size heterogeneityBurden of diseaseRepresentation of diverse populationsGWAS associationsNovel lociRisk prediction scoreAdmixed populationsFine-mappingGenetic architectureAssociation studiesGenomic studiesHealth disparitiesHealthcare disparitiesPopulation Architecture
2014
Epigenome-wide analysis of piRNAs in gene-specific DNA methylation
Fu A, Jacobs D, Zhu Y. Epigenome-wide analysis of piRNAs in gene-specific DNA methylation. RNA Biology 2014, 11: 1301-1312. PMID: 25590657, PMCID: PMC4615395, DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2014.996091.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPIWI-interacting RNAsGene-specific DNA methylationDNA methylationGenic lociTransposable elementsCpG sitesSilencing of transposable elementsGenome-wide methylation profilingDifferentially methylated CpG sitesGenome-wide effortsTarget CpG sitesInduce DNA methylationTransposon classesEpigenome-wide analysisIntergenic regionGenomic regionsNascent mRNAHuman genomeMethylation changesGenomic DNAMethylation profilesHuman somatic cellsUnique speciesGenome copiesSomatic cells
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