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- Kehoe, Laura, et al.
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Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
- 2019
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Ingår i: Science. - : American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). - 0036-8075 .- 1095-9203. ; 364:6438, s. 341-
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- Hudson, Lawrence N, et al.
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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
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Ingår i: Ecology and Evolution. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2045-7758. ; 7:1, s. 145-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.
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- Asp, Michaela, et al.
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Spatial detection of fetal marker genes expressed at low level in adult human heart tissue
- 2017
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. - 2045-2322. ; 7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Heart failure is a major health problem linked to poor quality of life and high mortality rates. Hence, novel biomarkers, such as fetal marker genes with low expression levels, could potentially differentiate disease states in order to improve therapy. In many studies on heart failure, cardiac biopsies have been analyzed as uniform pieces of tissue with bulk techniques, but this homogenization approach can mask medically relevant phenotypes occurring only in isolated parts of the tissue. This study examines such spatial variations within and between regions of cardiac biopsies. In contrast to standard RNA sequencing, this approach provides a spatially resolved transcriptome- and tissue-wide perspective of the adult human heart, and enables detection of fetal marker genes expressed by minor subpopulations of cells within the tissue. Analysis of patients with heart failure, with preserved ejection fraction, demonstrated spatially divergent expression of fetal genes in cardiac biopsies.
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- Fernandez Navarro, Jose, 1982-
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Computational methods for analysis and visualization of spatially resolved transcriptomes
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Characterizing the expression level of genes (transcriptome) in cells and tis- sues is essential for understanding the biological processes of multicellular or- ganisms. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has gained traction in the last decade as a powerful tool that provides an accurate quantitative representation of the transcriptome in tissues. RNA-seq methods are, however, limited by the fact that they provide an average representation of the transcriptome across the tissue. Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides quantitative gene expression levels of individual cells. This enables the molecular characteri- zation of cell types in health, disease and developmental tissues. However, scRNA-seq lacks the spatial context needed to understand how cells interact and their microenvironment. Current methods that provide spatially resolved gene expression levels are limited by a low throughput and the fact that the target genes must be known in advance.Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) is a novel method that combines high-resolution imaging with high-throughput sequencing. ST provides spatially resolved gene expression levels in tissue sections. The first part of the work presented in this thesis (Papers I, II, III and IV) revolves around the ST method and the development of the computational tools required to process, analyse and visualize ST data.Furthermore, the ST method was utilized to construct a three-dimensional (3D) molecular atlas of the adult mouse brain using 75 consecutive coronal sections (Paper V). We show that the molecular clusters obtained by unsu- pervised clustering of the atlas highly correlates with the Allen Brain Atlas. The molecular clusters provide new insights in the organization of regions like the hippocampus or the amygdala. We show that the molecular atlas can be used to spatially map single cells (scRNA-seq) onto the clusters and that only a handful of genes is required to define the brain regions at a molecular level.Finally, the hippocampus and the olfactory bulb of transgenic mice mim- icking the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were spatially characterized using the ST method (Paper VI). Dierential expression analysis revealed genes central in areas highly cited as important in AD including lipid metabolism, cellular bioenergetics, mitochondrial function, stress response and neurotransmission.
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- Fernandez Navarro, Jose, et al.
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ST viewer : a tool for analysis and visualization of spatial transcriptomics datasets
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Ingår i: Bioinformatics. - : Oxford University Press. - 1367-4803 .- 1367-4811. ; 35:6, s. 1058-1060
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Motivation Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) is a technique that combines high-resolution imaging with spatially resolved transcriptome-wide sequencing. This novel type of data opens up many possibilities for analysis and visualization, most of which are either not available with standard tools or too complex for normal users. Results Here, we present a tool, ST Viewer, which allows real-time interaction, analysis and visualization of Spatial Transcriptomics datasets through a seamless and smooth user interface. Availability and implementation The ST Viewer is open source under a MIT license and it is available at https://github.com/SpatialTranscriptomicsResearch/st_viewer. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Flannick, Jason, et al.
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Data Descriptor : Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls
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Ingår i: Scientific Data. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2052-4463. ; 4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To investigate the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) to high resolution, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia catalogued variation from whole-genome sequencing of 2,657 European individuals and exome sequencing of 12,940 individuals of multiple ancestries. Over 27M SNPs, indels, and structural variants were identified, including 99% of low-frequency (minor allele frequency [MAF] 0.1-5%) non-coding variants in the whole-genome sequenced individuals and 99.7% of low-frequency coding variants in the whole-exome sequenced individuals. Each variant was tested for association with T2D in the sequenced individuals, and, to increase power, most were tested in larger numbers of individuals (> 80% of low-frequency coding variants in similar to ~82 K Europeans via the exome chip, and similar to ~90% of low-frequency non-coding variants in similar to ~44 K Europeans via genotype imputation). The variants, genotypes, and association statistics from these analyses provide the largest reference to date of human genetic information relevant to T2D, for use in activities such as T2D-focused genotype imputation, functional characterization of variants or genes, and other novel analyses to detect associations between sequence variation and T2D.
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- Fuchsberger, Christian, et al.
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The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes
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Ingår i: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 536:7614, s. 41-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The genetic architecture of common traits, including the number, frequency, and effect sizes of inherited variants that contribute to individual risk, has been long debated. Genome-wide association studies have identified scores of common variants associated with type 2 diabetes, but in aggregate, these explain only a fraction of the heritability of this disease. Here, to test the hypothesis that lower-frequency variants explain much of the remainder, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia performed whole-genome sequencing in 2,657 European individuals with and without diabetes, and exome sequencing in 12,940 individuals from five ancestry groups. To increase statistical power, we expanded the sample size via genotyping and imputation in a further 111,548 subjects. Variants associated with type 2 diabetes after sequencing were overwhelmingly common and most fell within regions previously identified by genome-wide association studies. Comprehensive enumeration of sequence variation is necessary to identify functional alleles that provide important clues to disease pathophysiology, but large-scale sequencing does not support the idea that lower-frequency variants have a major role in predisposition to type 2 diabetes.
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- Gallart-Ayala, H., et al.
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Data Analysis in Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Clinical Applications
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Ingår i: Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry. - : Elsevier. - 9780444640444 ; , s. 613-641
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the last couple of decades, transcriptomics and metabolomics technologies have been used for the simultaneous detection and quantification of hundreds to thousands of transcripts and metabolites in several clinical studies. Depending on the aim of the study or its design, different data analysis methodologies and pipelines have been applied to extract relevant information from these studies and aid in their interpretation. Using selected examples in the clinical context, this chapter reviews some of these data analysis strategies commonly applied to transcriptomics and metabolomics datasets, both separately and in an integrated manner.
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