1507-DANDELION to Prioritize Asthma Drivers
Researchers have introduced DANDELION, a new computational framework designed to pinpoint disease-proximal genes (DPGs) that directly drive complex conditions like asthma. While traditional genetic studies often identify distal variants with indirect effects, this method integrates trans-regulatory signals and rare variant burden tests to reveal central biological drivers that other approaches miss. Applying this framework to asthma led to the discovery of a previously unknown role for protein palmitoylation in the disease's development. Experimental validation using CRISPR screens and mouse…
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