Hao, Ke, Chudin, Eugene, McElwee, Joshua, Schadt, Eric E
Abstract Background Although high-throughput genotyping arrays have made whole-genome association studies (WGAS) feasible, only a small proportion of SNPs in the human genome are actually surveyed in...
Disentangling molecular relationships with a causal inference test (2009)
Millstein, Joshua, Zhang, Bin, Zhu, Jun, Schadt, Eric E
Abstract Background There has been intense effort over the past couple of decades to identify loci underlying quantitative traits as a key step in the process of elucidating the etiology of complex...
Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease (2009)
Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parrish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...
Abstract Background Obesity is a particularly complex disease that at least partially involves genetic and environmental perturbations to gene-networks connecting the hypothalamus and several...
Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parrish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...
Figure S1 shows the connectivity distribution P(k) for GGC networks. Figure S2 shows FDR curves for each tissue in the analysis. Figure S3 shows modules in single tissue GGC networks as detected by...
Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease (2009)
Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...
Background: Obesity is a particularly complex disease that at least partially involves genetic and environmental perturbations to gene-networks connecting the hypothalamus and several metabolic...
The Pro12Ala PPARgamma2 variant determines metabolism at the gene-environment interface. (2009)
Heikkinen, Sami, Argmann, Carmen, Feige, Jérôme N, Koutnikova, Hana, Champy, Marie-France, Dali-Youcef, Nassim, ...
The metabolic impact of the common peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma isoform 2 (PPARgamma2) variant Pro12Ala in human populations has been widely debated. We demonstrate, using a...
Common body mass index-associated variants confer risk of extreme obesity (2009)
Cotsapas, Chris, Speliotes, Elizabeth K., Hatoum, Ida J., Greenawalt, Danielle M., Dobrin, Radu, Lum, Pek Y., ...
To investigate the genetic architecture of severe obesity, we performed a genome-wide association study of 775 cases and 3197 unascertained controls at ∼550 000 markers across the autosomal genome....
Tu, Zhidong, Argmann, Carmen, Wong, Kenny K., Mitnaul, Lyndon J., Edwards, Stephen, Sach, Iliana C., ...
Insulin resistance is one of the dominant symptoms of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Although the molecular mechanisms leading to this resistance are largely unknown, experimental data support that the...
Scheinfeldt, Laura B., Biswas, Shameek, Madeoy, Jennifer, Connelly, Caitlin F., Schadt, Eric E., Akey, Joshua M.
Mutations in the human gene ALMS1 result in Alström Syndrome, which presents with early childhood obesity and insulin resistance leading to Type 2 diabetes. Previous genomewide scans for selection...
Su, Wan-Lin, Modrek, Barmak, GuhaThakurta, Debraj, Edwards, Stephen, Shah, Jyoti K, Kulkarni, Amit V, ...
Abstract Background Studies have shown that genetic and sex differences strongly influence gene expression in mice. Given the diversity and complexity of transcripts produced by alternative splicing,...
Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Human Liver (2008)
Eric E. Schadt, Cliona Molony, Eugene Chudin, Ke Hao, Xia Yang, Pek Y. Lum, ...
Genetic variants that are associated with common human diseases do not lead directly to disease, but instead act on intermediate, molecular phenotypes that in turn induce changes in higher-order...
Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease (2008)
Emilsson, Valur, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Zhang, Bin, Leonardson, Amy S, Zink, Florian, Zhu, Jun, ...
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Keller, Mark P., Choi, YounJeong, Wang, Ping, Belt Davis, Dawn, Rabaglia, Mary E., Oler, Angie T., ...
Insulin resistance is necessary but not sufficient for the development of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes results when pancreatic beta-cells fail to compensate for insulin resistance by increasing insulin...
Eric E. Schadt, Cheng Li, Byron Ellis, Wing H. Wong
Abstract Algorithms for performing feature extraction and normalization on high-density oligonucleotide gene expression arrays, have not been fully explored, and the impact these algorithms have on...
Statistical power of phylo-HMM for evolutionarily conserved element detection (2007)
Fan, Xiaodan, Zhu, Jun, Schadt, Eric E, Liu, Jun S
Abstract Background An important goal of comparative genomics is the identification of functional elements through conservation analysis. Phylo-HMM was recently introduced to detect conserved...
Linkage Disequilibrium in Wild Mice (2007)
Cathy C. Laurie, Deborah A. Nickerson, Amy D. Anderson, Bruce S. Weir, Robert J. Livingston, Matthew D. Dean, ...
Crosses between laboratory strains of mice provide a powerful way of detecting quantitative trait loci for complex traits related to human disease. Hundreds of these loci have been detected, but only...
Linkage disequilibrium in wild mice (2007)
Cathy C. Laurie, Deborah A. Nickerson, Amy D Anderson, Bruce Weir, Robert J. Livingston, Matthew D. Dean, ...
Crosses between laboratory strains of mice provide a powerful way of detecting quantitative trait loci (QTL) for complex traits related to human disease. Hundreds of QTL have been detected, but only...
Jun Zhu, Matthew C. Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman, Eric Minch, Pek Y. Lum, ...
To dissect common human diseases such as obesity and diabetes, a systematic approach is needed to study how genes interact with one another, and with genetic and environmental factors, to determine...
Dosage compensation is less effective in birds than in mammals (2007)
Itoh, Yuichiro, Melamed, Esther, Yang, Xia, Kampf, Kathy, Wang, Susanna, Yehya, Nadir, ...
Abstract Background In animals with heteromorphic sex chromosomes, dosage compensation of sex-chromosome genes is thought to be critical for species survival. Diverse molecular mechanisms have...
Hovatta, Iiris, Zapala, Matthew A, Broide, Ron S, Schadt, Eric E, Libiger, Ondrej, Schork, Nicholas J, ...
Abstract Background Expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) mapping is used to find loci that are responsible for the transcriptional activity of a particular gene. In recent eQTL studies,...
Jun Zhu, Matthew C. Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman, Eric Minch, Pek Y. Lum, ...
To dissect common human diseases like obesity and diabetes, a systematic approach is needed to study how genes interact with one another, and how genetic and environmental factors and interactions...
BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central (2007)
Xiaodan Fan, Jun Zhu, Eric E Schadt, Jun S Liu
Research article Statistical power of phylo-HMM for evolutionarily conserved element detection
GuhaThakurta, Debraj, Xie, Tao, Anand, Manish, Edwards, Stephen W, Li, Guoya, Wang, Susanna S, ...
Abstract Background Changes in gene expression are known to be responsible for phenotypic variation and susceptibility to diseases. Identification and annotation of the genomic sequence variants that...
Integrating Genetic and Network Analysis to Characterize Genes Related to Mouse Weight (2006)
Anatole Ghazalpour, Sudheer Doss, Bin Zhang, Susanna Wang, Christopher Plaisier, Ruth Castellanos, ...
Systems biology approaches that are based on the genetics of gene expression have been fruitful in identifying genetic regulatory loci related to complex traits. We use microarray and genetic marker...
Integrating Genetic and Network Analysis to Characterize Genes Related to Mouse Weight (2006)
Anatole Ghazalpour, Sudheer Doss, Bin Zhang, Susanna Wang, Christopher Plaisier, Ruth Castellanos, ...
Gene mapping approaches that are based on the genetics of gene expression have been fruitful in identifying genetic regulatory loci related to complex traits. Recently, several groups have proposed...
Susanna Wang, Nadir Yehya, Eric E. Schadt, Hui Wang, Thomas A. Drake, Aldons J. Lusis
The integration of expression profiling with linkage analysis has increasingly been used to identify genes underlying complex phenotypes. The effects of gender on the regulation of many physiological...
Tissue-specific expression and regulation of sexually dimorphic genes in mice (2006)
Yang, Xia, Schadt, Eric E., Wang, Susanna, Wang, Hui, Arnold, Arthur P., Ingram-Drake, Leslie, ...
We report a comprehensive analysis of gene expression differences between sexes in multiple somatic tissues of 334 mice derived from an intercross between inbred mouse strains C57BL/6J and C3H/HeJ....
Tissue-specific expression and regulation of sexually dimorphic genes in mice (2006)
Yang, Xia, Schadt, Eric E., Wang, Susanna, Wang, Hui, Arnold, Arthur P., Ingram-Drake, Leslie, ...
We report a comprehensive analysis of gene expression differences between sexes in multiple somatic tissues of 334 mice derived from an intercross between inbred mouse strains C57BL/6J and C3H/HeJ....
Genomic analysis of metabolic pathway gene expression in mice (2005)
Ghazalpour, Anatole, Doss, Sudheer, Sheth, Sonal S, Ingram-Drake, Leslie A, Schadt, Eric E, Lusis, Aldons J, ...
Abstract Background A segregating population of (C57BL/6J × DBA/2J)F2 intercross mice was studied for obesity-related traits and for global gene expression in liver. Quantitative trait locus...
Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice (2005)
Doss, Sudheer, Schadt, Eric E., Drake, Thomas A., Lusis, Aldons J.
We previously reported the analysis of genome-wide expression profiles and various diabetes-related traits in a segregating cross between inbred mouse strains C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (DBA). By...
Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice (2005)
Doss, Sudheer, Schadt, Eric E., Drake, Thomas A., Lusis, Aldons J.
We previously reported the analysis of genome-wide expression profiles and various diabetes-related traits in a segregating cross between inbred mouse strains C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (DBA). By...
Schadt, Eric E, Edwards, Stephen W, GuhaThakurta, Debraj, Holder, Dan, Ying, Lisa, Svetnik, Vladimir, ...
Abstract Background Computational and microarray-based experimental approaches were used to generate a comprehensive transcript index for the human genome. Oligonucleotide probes designed from...
The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits (2004)
Churchill, Gary A., Airey, David C., Allayee, Hooman, Angel, Joe M., Attie, Alan D., Beatty, Jackson, ...
The goal of the Complex Trait Consortium is to promote the development of resources that can be used to understand, treat and ultimately prevent pervasive human diseases. Existing and proposed mouse...
Castle, John, Garrett-Engele, Phil, Armour, Christopher D, Duenwald, Sven J, Loerch, Patrick M, Meyer, Michael R, ...
Abstract Microarrays offer a high-resolution means for monitoring pre-mRNA splicing on a genomic scale. We have developed a novel, unbiased amplification protocol that permits labeling of entire...
He, Yudong D., Dai, Hongyue, Schadt, Eric E., Cavet, Guy, Edwards, Stephen W., Stepaniants, Sergey B., ...
Motivation: There is a very large and growing level of effort toward improving the platforms, experiment designs, and data analysis methods for microarray expression profiling. Along with a growing...
Yudong D. He, Hongyue Dai, Eric E. Schadt, Guy Cavet, Stephen W. Edwards, Sergey B. Stepaniants, ...
standard data set and figures of merit for comparing
Applications of Codon and Rate Variation Models in Molecular Phylogeny (2002)
Schadt, Eric E., Sinsheimer, Janet S., Lange, Kenneth
The current article illustrates the practical advantages of some new models and statistical algorithms for codon substitution and spatial rate variation in molecular phylogeny. Our companion paper in...
Castle, John, Garrett-Engele, Phil, Armour, Christopher D, Duenwald, Sven J, Loerch, Patrick M, Meyer, Michael R, ...
A novel, unbiased amplification protocol has been developed that permits labeling of entire transcripts. Also, hybridization conditions, probe characteristics, and analysis algorithms were optimized...
Schadt, Eric E, Edwards, Stephen W, GuhaThakurta, Debraj, Holder, Dan, Ying, Lisa, Svetnik, Vladimir, ...
A combination of microarray data with extensive genome annotations resulted in a set of 28,456 experimentally supported transcripts, providing the first experiment-driven annotation of the human...
Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice
Doss, Sudheer, Schadt, Eric E., Drake, Thomas A., Lusis, Aldons J.
We previously reported the analysis of genome-wide expression profiles and various diabetes-related traits in a segregating cross between inbred mouse strains C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (DBA). By...
Genomic analysis of metabolic pathway gene expression in mice
Ghazalpour, Anatole, Doss, Sudheer, Sheth, Sonal S, Ingram-Drake, Leslie A, Schadt, Eric E, Lusis, Aldons J, ...
In order to evaluate metabolic pathways associated with obesity, global gene-expression data were integrated with phenotypic and genetic segregation analyses, identifying 13 metabolic pathways the...
Wang, Susanna, Yehya, Nadir, Schadt, Eric E, Wang, Hui, Drake, Thomas A, Lusis, Aldons J
The integration of expression profiling with linkage analysis has increasingly been used to identify genes underlying complex phenotypes. The effects of gender on the regulation of many physiological...
Integrating Genetic and Network Analysis to Characterize Genes Related to Mouse Weight
Ghazalpour, Anatole, Doss, Sudheer, Zhang, Bin, Wang, Susanna, Plaisier, Christopher, Castellanos, Ruth, ...
Systems biology approaches that are based on the genetics of gene expression have been fruitful in identifying genetic regulatory loci related to complex traits. We use microarray and genetic marker...
Castle, John, Garrett-Engele, Phil, Armour, Christopher D, Duenwald, Sven J, Loerch, Patrick M, Meyer, Michael R, ...
A novel, unbiased amplification protocol has been developed that permits labeling of entire transcripts. Also, hybridization conditions, probe characteristics, and analysis algorithms were optimized...
Schadt, Eric E, Edwards, Stephen W, GuhaThakurta, Debraj, Holder, Dan, Ying, Lisa, Svetnik, Vladimir, ...
A combination of microarray data with extensive genome annotations resulted in a set of 28,456 experimentally supported transcripts, providing the first experiment-driven annotation of the human...
Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice
Doss, Sudheer, Schadt, Eric E., Drake, Thomas A., Lusis, Aldons J.
We previously reported the analysis of genome-wide expression profiles and various diabetes-related traits in a segregating cross between inbred mouse strains C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (DBA). By...
Genomic analysis of metabolic pathway gene expression in mice
Ghazalpour, Anatole, Doss, Sudheer, Sheth, Sonal S, Ingram-Drake, Leslie A, Schadt, Eric E, Lusis, Aldons J, ...
In order to evaluate metabolic pathways associated with obesity, global gene-expression data were integrated with phenotypic and genetic segregation analyses, identifying 13 metabolic pathways the...
Wang, Susanna, Yehya, Nadir, Schadt, Eric E, Wang, Hui, Drake, Thomas A, Lusis, Aldons J
The integration of expression profiling with linkage analysis has increasingly been used to identify genes underlying complex phenotypes. The effects of gender on the regulation of many physiological...
Integrating Genetic and Network Analysis to Characterize Genes Related to Mouse Weight
Ghazalpour, Anatole, Doss, Sudheer, Zhang, Bin, Wang, Susanna, Plaisier, Christopher, Castellanos, Ruth, ...
Systems biology approaches that are based on the genetics of gene expression have been fruitful in identifying genetic regulatory loci related to complex traits. We use microarray and genetic marker...
Tissue-specific expression and regulation of sexually dimorphic genes in mice
Yang, Xia, Schadt, Eric E., Wang, Susanna, Wang, Hui, Arnold, Arthur P., Ingram-Drake, Leslie, ...
We report a comprehensive analysis of gene expression differences between sexes in multiple somatic tissues of 334 mice derived from an intercross between inbred mouse strains C57BL/6J and C3H/HeJ....
Hovatta, Iiris, Zapala, Matthew A, Broide, Ron S, Schadt, Eric E, Libiger, Ondrej, Schork, Nicholas J, ...
Gene expression profiles of five brain regions from six inbred mouse strains suggest that many regulatory networks are highly specific to particular brain regions.
Zhu, Jun, Wiener, Matthew C, Zhang, Chunsheng, Fridman, Arthur, Minch, Eric, Lum, Pek Y, ...
To dissect common human diseases such as obesity and diabetes, a systematic approach is needed to study how genes interact with one another, and with genetic and environmental factors, to determine...
Pharmacogenetics of metformin response: a step in the path toward personalized medicine
Reitman, Marc L., Schadt, Eric E.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects 9.6% of the adults in the United States and more than 200 million people worldwide. Diabetes can be a devastating disease, but it can now be treated with nine classes...
Linkage Disequilibrium in Wild Mice
Laurie, Cathy C, Nickerson, Deborah A, Anderson, Amy D, Weir, Bruce S, Livingston, Robert J, Dean, Matthew D, ...
Crosses between laboratory strains of mice provide a powerful way of detecting quantitative trait loci for complex traits related to human disease. Hundreds of these loci have been detected, but only...
Meng, Haijin, Vera, Iset, Che, Nam, Wang, Xuping, Wang, Susanna S., Ingram-Drake, Leslie, ...
The genetic factors contributing to the complex disorder of myocardial calcification are largely unknown. Using a mouse model, we fine-mapped the major locus (Dyscalc1) contributing to the dystrophic...
Moving toward a system genetics view of disease
Sieberts, Solveig K., Schadt, Eric E.
Testing hundreds of thousands of DNA markers in human, mouse, and other species for association to complex traits like disease is now a reality. However, information on how variations in DNA impact...
Dosage compensation is less effective in birds than in mammals
Itoh, Yuichiro, Melamed, Esther, Yang, Xia, Kampf, Kathy, Wang, Susanna, Yehya, Nadir, ...
Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Human Liver
Schadt, Eric E, Molony, Cliona, Chudin, Eugene, Hao, Ke, Yang, Xia, Lum, Pek Y, ...
Genetic variants that are associated with common human diseases do not lead directly to disease, but instead act on intermediate, molecular phenotypes that in turn induce changes in higher-order...
Calibrating the Performance of SNP Arrays for Whole-Genome Association Studies
Hao, Ke, Schadt, Eric E., Storey, John D.
To facilitate whole-genome association studies (WGAS), several high-density SNP genotyping arrays have been developed. Genetic coverage and statistical power are the primary benchmark metrics in...
Exon and junction microarrays detect widespread mouse strain- and sex-bias expression differences
Su, Wan-Lin, Modrek, Barmak, GuhaThakurta, Debraj, Edwards, Stephen, Shah, Jyoti K, Kulkarni, Amit V, ...
Keller, Mark P., Choi, YounJeong, Wang, Ping, Belt Davis, Dawn, Rabaglia, Mary E., Oler, Angie T., ...
Insulin resistance is necessary but not sufficient for the development of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes results when pancreatic beta-cells fail to compensate for insulin resistance by increasing insulin...
Uncovering the Genetic Landscape for Multiple Sleep-Wake Traits
Winrow, Christopher J., Williams, Deanna L., Kasarskis, Andrew, Millstein, Joshua, Laposky, Aaron D., Yang, He S., ...
Despite decades of research in defining sleep-wake properties in mammals, little is known about the nature or identity of genes that regulate sleep, a fundamental behaviour that in humans occupies...
Drake, Thomas A., Schadt, Eric E., Lusis, Aldons J.
The millions of common DNA variations that occur in the human population, or among inbred strains of mice and rats, perturb the expression (transcript levels) of a large fraction of the genes...
Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease
Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parrish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...
Tissue-to-tissue coexpression networks between genes in hypothalamus, liver or adipose tissue enable identification of obesity-specific genes.