Nature Communications (May 2021)

Modeling regulatory network topology improves genome-wide analyses of complex human traits

  • Xiang Zhu,
  • Zhana Duren,
  • Wing Hung Wong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22588-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Gene regulatory networks are a useful means of inferring functional interactions from large-scale genomic data. Here, the authors develop a Bayesian framework integrating GWAS summary statistics with gene regulatory networks to identify genetic enrichments and associations simultaneously.