Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jan 19, 2021
Exon splicing triggered by unpredicted genetic mutation can cause translational variations in neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, we discover Alzheimer's disease (AD)-specific single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and abnormal exon splicing of ph...
Assessing the causal tissues of human complex diseases is important for the prioritization of trait-associated genetic variants. Yet, the biological underpinnings of trait-associated variants are extremely difficult to infer due to statistical noise ...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2021
To develop medical treatments and prevention, the association between disease and genetic variants needs to be identified. The main goal of genome-wide association study (GWAS) is to discover the underlying reason for vulnerability to disease and uti...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2021
In biology, the term "epistasis" indicates the effect of the interaction of a gene with another gene. A gene can interact with an independently sorted gene, located far away on the chromosome or on an entirely different chromosome, and this interacti...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Developing algorithms to extract phenotypes from electronic health records (EHRs) can be challenging and time-consuming. We developed PheMap, a high-throughput phenotyping approach that leverages multiple independent, online resources to s...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2020
An immense amount of observable diversity exists for all traits and across global populations. In the post-genomic era, equipped with efficient sequencing capabilities and better genotyping methods, we are now able to more fully appreciate how regula...
BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder (BD) is a type of chronic emotional disorder with a complex genetic structure. However, its genetic molecular mechanism is still unclear, which makes it insufficient to be diagnosed and treated.
Major progress in disease genetics has been made through genome-wide association studies (GWASs). One of the key tasks for post-GWAS analyses is to identify causal noncoding variants with regulatory function. Here, on the basis of >2000 functional fe...
MOTIVATION: Integration of different omics data could markedly help to identify biological signatures, understand the missing heritability of complex diseases and ultimately achieve personalized medicine. Standard regression models used in Genome-Wid...
With the ever-expanding number of available sequences from bacterial genomes, and the expectation that this data type will be the primary one generated from both diagnostic and research laboratories for the foreseeable future, then there is both an o...