Ha! I'm sorry. not trying to be cagey/dismissive. There's no paper that must be read: they're all nodes in a network. All I can do is point you to a cluster, w/ the right filter and jargon search terms. Apologies if I came off out of pocket.

Check out the review articles in the “Nature Reviews” journals, like “Nature Reviews Genetics”. These articles are written by experts but designed for a non-specialist audience (with undergraduate science education).