Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Mapping the serum proteome to neurological diseases using whole genome sequencing

  • Grace Png,
  • Andrei Barysenka,
  • Linda Repetto,
  • Pau Navarro,
  • Xia Shen,
  • Maik Pietzner,
  • Eleanor Wheeler,
  • Nicholas J. Wareham,
  • Claudia Langenberg,
  • Emmanouil Tsafantakis,
  • Maria Karaleftheri,
  • George Dedoussis,
  • Anders Mälarstig,
  • James F. Wilson,
  • Arthur Gilly,
  • Eleftheria Zeggini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27387-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Serum proteins are easily accessible biomarkers and drug targets. Here, the authors use whole genome sequencing data to describe the genetic architecture of neurologically-relevant serum proteins and establish causal protein-neurological disease relationships.