TWAS of 229k women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer https://www.Nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0132-x Metascan approach. Derive model for imputing transcriptome from #GTEx & validate against TCGA. Application to BCAC.
Posts Tagged ‘jclub’
Journal Club by JG
July 27, 2018Genome-wide prediction and functional characterization of the genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder | Nature Neuroscience
July 27, 2018Genome-wide prediction & functional characterization of the genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder, by @OlgaTroyanskaya lab
https://www.Nature.com/articles/nn.4353 Intersected candidate #ASD genes w/ #BrainSpan gene expression to find a pre-natal signal for the disease
Today: Jason Moore, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics speaker, 6-6-18 in BML Auditorium at 4 pm
June 7, 2018Papers for Journal Club
June 7, 2018Alternative evolutionary histories in the sequence space of an ancient protein https://www.Nature.com/articles/nature23902 Great viz of different potential but not necessarily realized evolutionary trajectories. Quite relevant for molecular #evolution & #pseudogenes
Paper for Journal Club Tomorrow
May 22, 2018Susceptibility of brain atrophy to TRIB3 in #Alzheimer’s disease, evidence from functional prioritization in imaging genetics
http://www.PNAS.org/content/115/12/3162.long Nice connection of developing phenotypes from #imaging, combined w. simple polygenic scores from genotypes
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May 20, 2018Genome-Scale Signatures of Gene Interaction from Compound Screens Predict Clinical Efficacy of Targeted Cancer Therapies – ScienceDirect
April 28, 2018Genome-Scale Signatures of Gene Interaction from #CompoundScreens Predict…Efficacy of Targeted Cancer Therapies
https://www.ScienceDirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405471218300097 How to find drug combos: Find expression response profiles associated w/ a drug target. A synergistic drug might change profiles similarly
Mapping the mouse Allelome reveals tissue-specific regulation of allelic expression | eLife
April 21, 2018Mapping the mouse Allelome reveals tissue-specific regulation of allelic expression https://eLifeSciences.org/articles/25125 More noncoding than coding #allelic activity. Also, finding windows of allelic activity for chromatin
Daniel Andergassen,
Christoph P Dotter,
Daniel Wenzel,
Verena Sigl,
Philipp C Bammer,
Markus Muckenhuber,
Daniela Mayer,
Tomasz M Kulinski,
Hans-Christian Theussl,
Josef M Penninger,
Christoph Bock,
Denise P Barlow ,
Florian M Pauler ,
Quanah J Hudson
Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious noncoding variants from functional and population genomic data | Nature Genetics
March 18, 2018Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious #noncoding variants from functional & population genomic data
https://www.Nature.com/articles/ng.3810 LINSIGHT, by @ASiepel et al., combines DNAse & conservation information
Yi-Fei Huang, Brad Gulko & Adam Siepel
Nature Genetics 49, 618–624 (2017)
doi:10.1038/ng.3810
Published online:
13 March 2017
JClub by BW on “3D clusters of somatic mutations in cancer reveal numerous rare mutations as functional targets”, Genome Medicine
February 4, 20183D clusters of somatic mutations…reveal numerous rare mutations as functional targets
https://GenomeMedicine.BiomedCentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-016-0393-x Introduces 3DHotSpots, which is one of a number of recent approaches (incl. CLUMPS, Hotspot3D, Mutation3D & HotMAPS) for finding groupings of somatic SNVs via structure
