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The overall goal of the Sherwood lab is to advance genomic and precision medicine applications through high-throughput, multi-disciplinary science. In a shortened talk this past autumn, I described our recent efforts using combined analysis of rare coding variants from the UK Biobank and genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and activation screening to improve the identification of genes, coding variants, and non-coding variants whose alteration impacts serum LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) levels.
In this talk, I will discuss our emerging efforts to optimize and employ precision CRISPR techniques such as base editing and prime editing to better understand the impacts of coding and non-coding variation on serum LDL-C levels and coronary artery disease risk. This work involves the development of novel high-throughput screening platforms and computational analysis approaches that have wide applicability in dissecting complex human disease genetics.