Childhood obesity is a major public health problem worldwide, and the relationship between
obesity and central precocious puberty has long been confirmed, however, the mechanisms …

Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) is a rare disorder caused by the
deficient production, secretion or action of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which …

Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

Functional genomics data has the potential to increase GWAS power by identifying SNPs
that have a higher prior probability of association. Here, we introduce a method that …

While many disease-associated variants have been identified through genome-wide
association studies, their downstream molecular consequences remain unclear. To identify …

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a disorder characterized by hyperandrogenism,
ovulatory dysfunction and polycystic ovarian morphology. Affected women frequently have …

The hypothalamic arcuate–median eminence complex (Arc-ME) controls energy balance,
fertility and growth through molecularly distinct cell types, many of which remain unknown …

Motivation LD score regression is a reliable and efficient method of using genome-wide
association study (GWAS) summary-level results data to estimate the SNP heritability of …

Identifying genetic correlations between complex traits and diseases can provide useful
etiological insights and help prioritize likely causal relationships. The major challenges …

Recent work has demonstrated that some functional categories of the genome contribute
disproportionately to the heritability of complex diseases. Here we analyze a broad set of …