[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing

…, KA Young, KL Young, W Zhao, DB Hancock, B Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) so far focus on European ancestry and
lack diversity. To overcome this limitation, we aggregated genome-wide association study (…

The effects of organic food on human health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies

B Jiang, J Pang, J Li, L Mi, D Ru, J Feng, X Li… - Nutrition …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Context Although the nutritional composition of organic food has been thoroughly researched,
there is a dearth of published data relating to its impact on human health. Objective This …

[HTML][HTML] Construction and application of polygenic risk scores in autoimmune diseases

…, H Markus, NJ Olsen, L Carrel, B Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of genetic variants
associated with autoimmune diseases and provided unique mechanistic insights and informed …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry and multi-trait genome-wide association meta-analyses inform clinical risk prediction for systemic lupus erythematosus

…, X Zhong, NJ Olsen, L Carrel, LC Tsoi, B Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus is a heritable autoimmune disease that predominantly affects
young women. To improve our understanding of genetic etiology, we conduct multi-ancestry …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating 3D genomic and epigenomic data to enhance target gene discovery and drug repurposing in transcriptome-wide association studies

…, G Shenoy, O Marx, L Carrel, B Jiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) are popular approaches to test for association
between imputed gene expression levels and traits of interest. Here, we propose an …

[HTML][HTML] Model-based assessment of replicability for genome-wide association meta-analysis

D McGuire, Y Jiang, M Liu, JD Weissenkampen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) is an effective approach to enlarge
sample sizes and empower the discovery of novel associations between genotype and …

Methods for the analysis and interpretation for rare variants associated with complex traits

…, Y Jiang, S Eckert, B Jiang… - Current protocols in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, whole genome and
whole exome DNA sequencing has become affordable for routine genetic studies. Coupled …

A survey of group key management

B Jiang, X Hu - … conference on computer science and software …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Group-oriented applications are urgent in network communications for bandwidth economizations.
The security issues in multicast are also urgent to be addressed. And the group key …

Association between subjective cognitive decline and social and emotional support in US adults

X Weng, DR George, B Jiang… - American Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) has been linked to Alzheimer’s Disease in the literature.
However, little is known about whether SCD is associated with social/emotional support (…

[HTML][HTML] Proper conditional analysis in the presence of missing data: Application to large scale meta-analysis of tobacco use phenotypes

Y Jiang, S Chen, D McGuire, F Chen, M Liu… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Meta-analysis of genetic association studies increases sample size and the power for
mapping complex traits. Existing methods are mostly developed for datasets without missing …