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Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
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Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank

N Sinnott-Armstrong, Y Tanigawa, D Amar, N Mars… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical laboratory tests are a critical component of the continuum of care. We evaluate the
genetic basis of 35 blood and urine laboratory measurements in the UK Biobank (n = 363,228 …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and challenges for transcriptome-wide association studies

M Wainberg, N Sinnott-Armstrong, N Mancuso… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) integrate genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) and gene expression datasets to identify gene–trait associations. In this Perspective…

GWAS of three molecular traits highlights core genes and pathways alongside a highly polygenic background

N Sinnott-Armstrong, S Naqvi, M Rivas, JK Pritchard - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to study the genetic basis of a
wide variety of complex diseases and other traits. We describe UK Biobank GWAS results for …

[HTML][HTML] Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes

…, N Sidiropoulos, L Sieverling, N Sinnott-Armstrong… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of drivers of cancer has traditionally focused on protein-coding genes 1 , 2 , 3
– 4 . Here we present analyses of driver point mutations and structural variants in non-…

Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

…, DM Levine, SC Nelson, NA Sinnott-Armstrong… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-genome
sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence variants …

Sex-specific genetic effects across biomarkers

…, RB Altman, N Sinnott-Armstrong… - European Journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Sex differences have been shown in laboratory biomarkers; however, the extent to which
this is due to genetics is unknown. In this study, we infer sex-specific genetic parameters (…

Chromatin accessibility dynamics in a model of human forebrain development

AE Trevino, N Sinnott-Armstrong, J Andersen, SJ Yoon… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The cerebral cortex is responsible for higher-order functions in the nervous
system and has undergone substantial expansion in size in primates. The development of …

Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations

…, M Vujkovic, D Klarin, MG Levin, N Sinnott-Armstrong… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of coronary artery disease (CAD)
incorporating nearly a quarter of a million cases, in which existing studies are integrated with data …

SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater settled solids is associated with COVID-19 cases in a large urban sewershed

…, MK Wolfe, D Catoe, N Sinnott-Armstrong… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wastewater-based epidemiology may be useful for informing public health response to viral
diseases like COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2. We quantified SARS-CoV-2 RNA in …

Reduced signal for polygenic adaptation of height in UK Biobank

JJ Berg, A Harpak, N Sinnott-Armstrong… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.39725.001 Several recent papers have reported strong signals of selection
on European polygenic height scores. These analyses used height effect estimates from the …