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Ana Viñuela

NUAcT Fellow - Group leader
Verified email at newcastle.ac.uk
Cited by 7834

Underrepresented populations in Parkinson's genetics research: current landscape and future directions

…, S Urrehman, M Cornejo‐Olivas, A Vinuela… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Human genetics research lacks diversity; over 80% of genome‐wide association
studies have been conducted on individuals of European ancestry. In addition to limiting …

Cigarette smoking reduces DNA methylation levels at multiple genomic loci but the effect is partially reversible upon cessation

…, J Bell, KJ Dick, S Kanoni, J Nisbet, A Viñuela… - Epigenetics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Smoking is a major risk factor in many diseases. Genome wide association studies have linked
genes for nicotine dependence and smoking behavior to increased risk of cardiovascular…

Genome-wide meta-analysis points to CTC1 and ZNF676 as genes regulating telomere homeostasis in humans

…, GS Berenson, AM Valdes, A Viñuela… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with a number of common age-related diseases
and is a heritable trait. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) identified …

Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions detected by transcriptome sequence analysis in twins

A Buil, AA Brown, T Lappalainen, A Vinuela… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding the genetic architecture of gene expression is an intermediate step in
understanding the genetic architecture of complex diseases. RNA sequencing technologies have …

[PDF][PDF] Population-scale tissue transcriptomics maps long non-coding RNAs to complex disease

…, M Stephens, BE Stranger, NA Teran, A Viñuela… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes have well-established and important impacts on
molecular and cellular functions. However, among the thousands of lncRNA genes, it is still a …

[PDF][PDF] Four groups of type 2 diabetes contribute to the etiological and clinical heterogeneity in newly diagnosed individuals: An IMI DIRECT study

…, A Mari, A Tura, R Koivula, A Mahajan, A Vinuela… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
The presentation and underlying pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is complex and
heterogeneous. Recent studies attempted to stratify T2D into distinct subgroups using data-…

Tensor decomposition for multiple-tissue gene expression experiments

V Hore, A Vinuela, A Buil, J Knight, MI McCarthy… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies of gene expression traits and other cellular phenotypes
have successfully identified links between genetic variation and biological processes. The …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery of drug–omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models

…, A Mari, R Koivula, A Mahajan, A Vinuela… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The application of multiple omics technologies in biomedical cohorts has the potential to reveal
patient-level disease characteristics and individualized response to treatment. However, …

Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

…, HED Suchiman, AM Valdes, N Verweij, A Viñuela… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Interindividual variation in mean leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with cancer
and several age-associated diseases. We report here a genome-wide meta-analysis of …

[HTML][HTML] Sixteen new lung function signals identified through 1000 Genomes Project reference panel imputation

…, A Viñuela… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Lung function measures are used in the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
In 38,199 European ancestry individuals, we studied genome-wide association of forced …