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Strategies for activity analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with human diseases

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Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites associated with human diseases. In the annotation of human diseases, especially cancers, SNPs, as an… Click to show full abstract

Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites associated with human diseases. In the annotation of human diseases, especially cancers, SNPs, as an important component of genetic factors, have gained increasing attention. Given that most of the SNPs are located in non‐coding regions, the functional verification of these SNPs is a great challenge. The key to functional annotation for risk SNPs is to screen SNPs with regulatory activity from thousands of disease associated‐SNPs. In this review, we systematically recapitulate the characteristics and functional roles of SNP sites, discuss three parallel reporter screening strategies in detail based on barcode tag classification, and recommend the common in silico strategies to help supplement the annotation of SNP sites with epigenetic activity analysis, prediction of target genes and trans‐acting factors. We hope that this review will contribute to this exuberant research field by providing robust activity analysis strategies that can facilitate the translation of GWAS results into personalized diagnosis and prevention measures for human diseases.

Keywords: associated human; activity analysis; single nucleotide; human diseases; activity

Journal Title: Clinical Genetics
Year Published: 2022

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