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Sex-dependent and sex-independent regulatory systems of size variation in natural populations

Bart Deplancke, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Ernst Hafen

Size of organs/organisms is a polygenic trait. Many of the growth-regulatory genes constitute conserved growth signaling pathways. However, how these multiple genes are orchestrated at the systems level to attain the natural variation in size including sex ...

2019

Common genetic variants associated with Parkinson's disease display widespread signature of epigenetic plasticity

Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini

Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by a pivotal progressive loss of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons and aggregation of alpha-synuclein protein encoded by the SNCA gene. Genome-wide association studies identified almost 100 sequence variants link ...

Springer Nature2019

A comprehensive assessment of demographic, environmental, and host genetic associations with gut microbiome diversity in healthy individuals

Jacques Fellay, Christian Hammer, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Petar Scepanovic

Background The gut microbiome is an important determinant of human health. Its composition has been shown to be influenced by multiple environmental factors and likely by host genetic variation. In the framework of the Milieu Interieur Consortium, a total ...

2019

Visual masking deficits in schizophrenia: A view into the genetics of the disease through an endophenotype

Michael Herzog, Jacques Fellay, Maya Roinishvili, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel

Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder determined by a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors. To better understand the contributions of human genetic variation to schizophrenia, we performed a genome-wide association study of a validated endophenot ...

2018

The phenotypic impact of naturally occurring genetic and molecular mitochondrial variation in a Drosophila Genetic Reference Population

Roel Paulus Josephus Bevers

Genome-wide association (GWA) studies aim to dissect the relationship between genotype and phenotype. So far, the focus has been on nuclear genetic determinants as variation in the mitochondrial genome is often low in the study cohorts. Despite this observ ...

EPFL2018

SQC: Secure Quality Control for Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Zhicong Huang, Huang Lin

Motivation: Due to the limited power of small-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS), researchers tend to collaborate and establish a larger consortium in order to perform large-scale GWAS. Genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) is a statistic ...

Oxford University Press2017

The ultimate and proximate mechanisms driving the evolution of long tails in forest deer mice

Susanne Petra Pfeifer

Understanding both the role of selection in driving phenotypic change and its underlying genetic basis remain major challenges in evolutionary biology. Here, we use modern tools to revisit a classic system of local adaptation in the North American deer mou ...

Wiley2017

Genome-wide association study of virologic response with efavirenz-containing or abacavir-containing regimens in AIDS clinical trials group protocols

Paul Jack Mc Laren

Background Efavirenz and abacavir are components of recommended first-line regimens for HIV-1 infection. We used genome-wide genotyping and clinical data to explore genetic associations with virologic failure among patients randomized to efavirenz-containi ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2015

Human genetic variation in HIV disease: beyond genome-wide association studies

Jacques Fellay, Paul Jack Mc Laren

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Rapid expansion of genomic technologies has resulted in an unprecedented ability to interrogate the impact of human genetic variation on disease. HIV-1 infection is a unique model for studying this impact because host genetic variation i ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2015

Polymorphisms of large effect explain the majority of the host genetic contribution to variation of HIV-1 virus load

Jacques Fellay, Paul Jack Mc Laren, Istvan Bartha

Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of HIV-1-infected populations have been underpowered to detect common variants with moderate impact on disease outcome and have not assessed the phenotypic variance explained by genome-wide additive effects. ...

National Academy of Sciences2015