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DNA methylation sites in early adulthood characterised by pubertal timing and development: a twin study

Background Puberty is a highly heritable and variable trait, with environmental factors having a role in its eventual timing and development. Early and late pubertal onset are both associated with various diseases developing later in life, and epigenetic c ...

London2023

Secure and Federated Genome-Wide Association Studies for Biobank-Scale Datasets

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Jeffrey Chen, David Jules Froelicher

Sharing data across multiple institutions for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) would enable discovery of novel genetic variants linked to health and disease. However, existing regulations on genomic data sharing and the sheer size of the data limit t ...

2022

A Phylogeny-aware GWAS Framework to Correct for Heritable Pathogen Effects on Infectious Disease Traits

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Infectious diseases are particularly challenging for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) because genetic effects from two organisms (pathogen and host) can influence a trait. Traditional GWAS assume individual samples are independent observations. Howev ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

The genetic architecture of complex human traits at the dawn of genomic medicine

Olivier Noël Marie Naret

The focus of the work presented in this thesis is the exploration of the genetic architecture of complex human traits - at the dawn of genomic medicine. The underlying mechanisms explaining the enormously polygenic nature of most human complex traits are ...

EPFL2021

A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response

Jacques Fellay, John Wilson, Yang Luo, Xinyi Li

A high-resolution reference panel based on whole-genome sequencing data enables accurate imputation of HLA alleles across diverse populations and fine-mapping of HLA association signals for HIV-1 host response. Fine-mapping to plausible causal variation ma ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

A platform for experimental precision medicine: The extended BXD mouse family

Johan Auwerx, Evan Graehl Williams

The challenge of precision medicine is to model complex interactions among DNA variants, phenotypes, development, environments, and treatments. We address this challenge by expanding the BXD family of mice to 140 fully isogenic strains, creating a uniquely ...

CELL PRESS2021

A fully joint Bayesian quantitative trait locus mapping of human protein abundance in plasma

Anthony Christopher Davison, Jörg Hager, Hélène Ruffieux, Radu Popescu

Molecular quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses are increasingly popular to explore the genetic architecture of complex traits, but existing studies do not leverage shared regulatory patterns and suffer from a large multiplicity burden, which hampers the ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2020

Genetic spectrum of retinal dystrophies in Tunisia

Imen Habibi

We report the molecular basis of the largest Tunisian cohort with inherited retinal dystrophies (IRD) reported to date, identify disease-causing pathogenic variants and describe genotype-phenotype correlations. A subset of 26 families from a cohort of 73 f ...

2020

Revealing evolutionary constraints on proteins through sequence analysis

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol

Statistical analysis of alignments of large numbers of protein sequences has revealed sectors of collectively coevolving amino acids in several protein families. Here, we show that selection acting on any functional property of a protein, represented by an ...

2019

Clinical and Genetic Findings of Autosomal Recessive Bestrophinopathy (ARB)

Imen Habibi

Mutations in BEST1 cause several phenotypes including autosomal dominant (AD) Best vitelliform macular dystrophy type 2 (BVMD), AD vitreo-retino-choroidopathy (ADVIRC), and retinitis pigmentosa-50 (RP50). A rare subtype of Bestrophinopathy exists with bial ...

2019

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