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Nicholas Mancuso

Associate Professor at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Verified email at med.usc.edu
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[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…

Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights

A Gusev, N Mancuso, H Won, M Kousi, HK Finucane… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 100 risk loci for schizophrenia,
but the causal mechanisms remain largely unknown. We performed a transcriptome-wide …

Probabilistic fine-mapping of transcriptome-wide association studies

N Mancuso, MK Freund, R Johnson, H Shi, G Kichaev… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… , which is significantly lower when compared with 84% for N eQTL = 500 (Mann–Whitney
U-… We model a quantitative trait for n individuals y by a linear combination of expression levels …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating gene expression with summary association statistics to identify genes associated with 30 complex traits

N Mancuso, H Shi, P Goddard, G Kichaev… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified thousands of risk loci
for many complex traits and diseases, the causal variants and genes at these loci remain …

[PDF][PDF] Local genetic correlation gives insights into the shared genetic architecture of complex traits

H Shi, N Mancuso, S Spendlove, B Pasaniuc - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Although genetic correlations between complex traits provide valuable insights into
epidemiological and etiological studies, a precise quantification of which genomic regions …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic control of expression and splicing in developing human brain informs disease mechanisms

RL Walker, G Ramaswami, C Hartl, N Mancuso… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Tissue-specific regulatory regions harbor substantial genetic risk for disease. Because brain
development is a critical epoch for neuropsychiatric disease susceptibility, we characterized …

The contribution of rare variation to prostate cancer heritability

N Mancuso, N Rohland, KA Rand, A Tandon, A Allen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We report targeted sequencing of 63 known prostate cancer risk regions in a multi-ancestry
study of 9,237 men and use the data to explore the contribution of low-frequency variation to …

[HTML][HTML] Placenta and appetite genes GDF15 and IGFBP7 are associated with hyperemesis gravidarum

…, KW MacGibbon, FP Schoenberg, N Mancuso… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… framework under a \(\chi _{n - 1}^2\) distribution. Here, the number of studies is \(n = 2\),
so our heterogeneity p-values reflect a one-tailed test under a \(\chi _1^2\) distribution. …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale transcriptome-wide association study identifies new prostate cancer risk regions

N Mancuso, S Gayther, A Gusev, W Zheng… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… Here we integrate the largest PrCa GWAS (N = 142,392) with gene expression measured
in 45 tissues (N = 4458), including normal and tumor prostate, to perform a multi-tissue …

Accurate estimation of SNP-heritability from biobank-scale data irrespective of genetic architecture

K Hou, KS Burch, A Majumdar, H Shi, N Mancuso… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… Given genotype measurements across N individuals at M SNPs and assuming N > M, the …
pop ), we set d GWAS = 0.5 and selected a random set of controls to satisfy N case = N control . …