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ArticleNature communications2021

Transcriptome-wide association analysis of brain structures yields insights into pleiotropy with complex neuropsychiatric traits.

Bingxin Zhao, Yue Shan, Yue Yang, Zhaolong Yu, Tengfei Li, Xifeng Wang, Tianyou Luo, Ziliang Zhu, Patrick Sullivan, Hongyu Zhao and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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33 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Bingxin Zhao *Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Yue Shan *Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Yue YangDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0470-7244
Zhaolong YuInterdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-2465
Tengfei LiDepartment of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Xifeng WangDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Tianyou LuoDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Ziliang ZhuDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Patrick SullivanDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Hongyu ZhaoInterdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1195-9607
Yun LiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. yunli@med.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9275-4189
Hongtu ZhuDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. htzhu@email.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6781-2690

Funding

Project 1U19AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE/RES/EDU · PI MONICA G. RIVERA-MINDT · 2016 to 2026
$226.7M
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
Mapping the Human Connectome: Structure, Function, and HeritabilityU54MH091657 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI UGURBIL, KAMIL, VAN ESSEN, DAVID C · 2010 to 2014
$34.7M
Neurodevelopmental Genomics: Trajectories of Complex PhenotypesRC2MH089983 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GUR, RAQUEL E · 2009 to 2011
$14.3M
2/2 Neurodevelopmental Genomics: Trajectories of Complex PhenotypesRC2MH089924 · NIMH · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI HAKONARSON, HAKON · 2009 to 2011
$10.7M
Preclinical CoreP50HD103573 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GABRIEL S DICHTER · 2020 to 2026
$9.7M
Creating a Pediatric Imaging-Genomics Data ResourceRC2DA029475 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI CHANG, LINDA, DALE, ANDERS M · 2009 to 2011
$9.1M
Preclinical CoreU54HD079124 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BELGER, AYSENIL · 2013 to 2019
$8.0M
Statistical Analysis of Biomedical Imaging Data in Curved SpaceR01MH086633 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI IBRAHIM, JOSEPH G · 2010 to 2018
$2.9M
Genetic Studies of Blood Cell Traits in Multi-Ethnic CohortsR01HL129132 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LI, YUN, REINER, ALEXANDER P · 2016 to 2019
$2.7M
Analysis of Big Data Squared in Biomedical StudiesR01MH116527 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, HEPING · 2018 to 2022
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL129132NIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904NIA NIH HHS U19 AG024904NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103573NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD079124NIDA NIH HHS RC2 DA029475NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH086633NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH116527NIMH NIH HHS RC2 MH089924NIMH NIH HHS RC2 MH089983NIMH NIH HHS U54 MH091657
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural variations of the human brain are heritable and highly polygenic traits, with hundreds of associated genes identified in recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) can both prioritize these GWAS findings and also identify additional gene-trait associations. Here we perform cross-tissue TWAS analysis of 211 structural neuroimaging and discover 278 associated genes exceeding Bonferroni significance threshold of 1.04 × 10

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BrainGene Expression ProfilingGenetic Association StudiesGenetic PleiotropyGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMultifactorial InheritanceNeuroimagingPhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideQuantitative Trait Loci

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PMID34001886
PMCPMC8128893

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