Risk factors for childhood obesity in the first 1,000 days: a systematic review

JAW Baidal, LM Locks, ER Cheng… - American journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Context Mounting evidence suggests that the origins of childhood obesity and related
disparities can be found as early as the “first 1,000 days”—the period from conception to age …

The bigger picture of FTO—the first GWAS-identified obesity gene

RJF Loos, GSH Yeo - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2014 - nature.com
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that cluster in the first intron of fat mass and
obesity associated (FTO) gene are associated obesity traits in genome-wide association …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

D Demontis, RK Walters, J Martin, M Mattheisen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable childhood behavioral
disorder affecting 5% of children and 2.5% of adults. Common genetic variants contribute …

An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

B Bulik-Sullivan, HK Finucane, V Anttila, A Gusev… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying genetic correlations between complex traits and diseases can provide useful
etiological insights and help prioritize likely causal relationships. The major challenges …

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

AE Locke, B Kahali, SI Berndt, AE Justice, TH Pers… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of
obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta …

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

NR Wray, S Ripke, M Mattheisen, M Trzaskowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common illness accompanied by considerable
morbidity, mortality, costs, and heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide …

LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and …

J Zheng, AM Erzurumluoglu, BL Elsworth… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
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 …

The mRNA-bound proteome and its global occupancy profile on protein-coding transcripts

AG Baltz, M Munschauer, B Schwanhäusser, A Vasile… - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
Protein-RNA interactions are fundamental to core biological processes, such as mRNA
splicing, localization, degradation, and translation. We developed a photoreactive …

Association between telomere length and risk of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases: a Mendelian randomization study

PC Haycock, S Burgess, A Nounu, J Zheng… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length
and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility …