Gene–environment interactions in human health

E Herrera-Luis, K Benke, H Volk… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene–environment interactions (G× E), the interplay of genetic variation with environmental
factors, have a pivotal impact on human complex traits and diseases. Statistically, G× E can …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies in ancestrally diverse populations: opportunities, methods, pitfalls, and recommendations

RE Peterson, K Kuchenbaecker, RK Walters, CY Chen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have focused primarily on populations of
European descent, but it is essential that diverse populations become better represented …

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

C Fuchsberger, J Flannick, TM Teslovich, A Mahajan… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of common traits, including the number, frequency, and effect sizes
of inherited variants that contribute to individual risk, has been long debated. Genome-wide …

Rare-variant association analysis: study designs and statistical tests

S Lee, GR Abecasis, M Boehnke, X Lin - The American Journal of Human …, 2014 - cell.com
Despite the extensive discovery of trait-and disease-associated common variants, much of
the genetic contribution to complex traits remains unexplained. Rare variants can explain …

Dissecting the genetics of complex traits using summary association statistics

B Pasaniuc, AL Price - Nature reviews genetics, 2017 - nature.com
During the past decade, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to
successfully identify tens of thousands of genetic variants associated with complex traits and …

Exploiting genetic diversity from landraces in wheat breeding for adaptation to climate change

MS Lopes, I El-Basyoni, PS Baenziger… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Climate change has generated unpredictability in the timing and amount of rain, as well as
extreme heat and cold spells that have affected grain yields worldwide and threaten food …

Rare-variant collapsing analyses for complex traits: guidelines and applications

G Povysil, S Petrovski, J Hostyk, V Aggarwal… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The first phase of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) assessed the role of common
variation in human disease. Advances optimizing and economizing high-throughput …

Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

A Gusev, SH Lee, G Trynka, H Finucane… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Regulatory and coding variants are known to be enriched with associations identified by
genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex disease, but their contributions to …

Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing

F Chen, X Wang, SK Jang, BC Quach… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) so far focus on European ancestry
and lack diversity. To overcome this limitation, we aggregated genome-wide association …

Statistical power and significance testing in large-scale genetic studies

PC Sham, SM Purcell - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Significance testing was developed as an objective method for summarizing statistical
evidence for a hypothesis. It has been widely adopted in genetic studies, including genome …