Browsing by Author "Yu, Bing"

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    Author Correction: Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis of Human Metabolome in Multi-Ethnic Populations
    (Springer Nature, 2023-10-19) Feofanova, Elena V.; Brown, Michael R.; Alkis, Taryn; Manuel, Astrid M.; Li, Xihao; Tahir, Usman A.; Li, Zilin; Mendez, Kevin M.; Kelly, Rachel S.; Qi, Qibin; Chen, Han; Larson, Martin G.; Lemaitre, Rozenn N.; Morrison, Alanna C.; Grieser, Charles; Wong, Kari E.; Gerszten, Robert E.; Zhao, Zhongming; Lasky-Su, Jessica; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed); Yu, Bing; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    Correction to: Nature Communications 10.1038/s41467-023-38800-2, published online 30 May2023 In this article, the author name Robert E. Gerszten was incorrectly written as Robert E. Gersztern. The original article has been corrected.
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    Old vs. New Local Ancestry Inference in HCHS/SOL: A Comparative Study
    (bioRxiv, 2025-02-08) Chen, Xueying; Wang, Hao; Broce, Iris; Dale, Anders; Yu, Bing; Zhou, Laura Y.; Li, Xihao; Argos, Maria; Daviglus, Martha L.; Cai, Jianwen; Franceschini, Nora; Sofer, Tamar; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    Hispanic/Latino populations are admixed, with genetic contributions from multiple ancestral populations. Studies of genetic association in these admixed populations often use methods such as admixture mapping, which relies on inferred counts of "local" ancestry, i.e., of the source ancestral population at a locus. Local ancestries are inferred using external reference panels that represent ancestral populations, making the choice of inference method and reference panel critical. This study used a dataset of Hispanic/Latino individuals from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) to evaluate the "old" local ancestry inference performed using the state-of-the-art inference method, RFMix, alongside "new" inferences performed using Fast Local Ancestry Estimation (FLARE), which also used an updated reference panel. We compared their performance in terms of global and local ancestry correlations, as well as admixture mapping-based associations. Overall, the old RFMix and new FLARE inferences were highly similar for both global and local ancestries, with FLARE-inferred datasets yielding admixture mapping results consistent with those computed from RFMix. However, in some genomic regions the old and new local ancestries have relatively lower correlations (Pearson R < 0.9). Most of these genomic regions (86.42%) were mapped to either ENCODE blacklist regions, or to gene clusters, compared to 7.67% of randomly-matched regions with high correlations (Pearson R > 0.97) between old and new local ancestries.
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    Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis of Human Metabolome in Multi-Ethnic Populations
    (Springer Nature, 2023-05-30) Feofanova, Elena V.; Brown, Michael R.; Alkis, Taryn; Manuel, Astrid M.; Li, Xihao; Tahir, Usman A.; Li, Zilin; Mendez, Kevin M.; Kelly, Rachel S.; Qi, Qibin; Chen, Han; Larson, Martin G.; Lemaitre, Rozenn N.; Morrison, Alanna C.; Grieser, Charles; Wong, Kari E.; Gerszten, Robert E.; Zhao, Zhongming; Lasky-Su, Jessica; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed); Yu, Bing; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of Medicine
    Circulating metabolite levels may reflect the state of the human organism in health and disease, however, the genetic architecture of metabolites is not fully understood. We have performed a whole-genome sequencing association analysis of both common and rare variants in up to 11,840 multi-ethnic participants from five studies with up to 1666 circulating metabolites. We have discovered 1985 novel variant-metabolite associations, and validated 761 locus-metabolite associations reported previously. Seventy-nine novel variant-metabolite associations have been replicated, including three genetic loci located on the X chromosome that have demonstrated its involvement in metabolic regulation. Gene-based analysis have provided further support for seven metabolite-replicated loci pairs and their biologically plausible genes. Among those novel replicated variant-metabolite pairs, follow-up analyses have revealed that 26 metabolites have colocalized with 21 tissues, seven metabolite-disease outcome associations have been putatively causal, and 7 metabolites might be regulated by plasma protein levels. Our results have depicted the genetic contribution to circulating metabolite levels, providing additional insights into understanding human disease.