Overview of the BioBank Japan Project: Study design and profile

A Nagai, M Hirata, Y Kamatani, K Muto… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
Background: The BioBank Japan (BBJ) Project was launched in 2003 with the aim of
providing evidence for the implementation of personalized medicine by constructing a large …

The develo** world of DOHaD

K Suzuki - Journal of developmental origins of health and disease, 2018‏ - cambridge.org
Since its debut in a ground-breaking report by Barker and Osmond in 1986, the concept of
the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) has been further developed in …

A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

S Sakaue, M Kanai, Y Tanigawa, J Karjalainen… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Current genome-wide association studies do not yet capture sufficient diversity in
populations and scope of phenotypes. To expand an atlas of genetic associations in non …

Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

K Ishigaki, M Akiyama, M Kanai, A Takahashi… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
The overwhelming majority of participants in current genetic studies are of European
ancestry. To elucidate disease biology in the East Asian population, we conducted a …

Genetic profiles of 103,106 individuals in the Taiwan Biobank provide insights into the health and history of Han Chinese

CY Wei, JH Yang, EC Yeh, MF Tsai, HJ Kao… - NPJ genomic …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Personalized medical care focuses on prediction of disease risk and response to
medications. To build the risk models, access to both large-scale genomic resources and …

jMorp updates in 2020: large enhancement of multi-omics data resources on the general Japanese population

S Tadaka, E Hishinuma, S Komaki… - Nucleic acids …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract In the Tohoku Medical Megabank project, genome and omics analyses of
participants in two cohort studies were performed. A part of the data is available at the …

Large-scale analyses of common and rare variants identify 12 new loci associated with atrial fibrillation

IE Christophersen, M Rienstra, C Roselli, X Yin… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Atrial fibrillation affects more than 33 million people worldwide and increases the risk of
stroke, heart failure, and death,. Fourteen genetic loci have been associated with atrial …

Identification of 28 new susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes in the Japanese population

K Suzuki, M Akiyama, K Ishigaki, M Kanai, J Hosoe… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
To understand the genetics of type 2 diabetes in people of Japanese ancestry, we
conducted A meta-analysis of four genome-wide association studies (GWAS; 36,614 cases …

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor AhR links atopic dermatitis and air pollution via induction of the neurotrophic factor artemin

T Hidaka, E Ogawa, EH Kobayashi, T Suzuki… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Atopic dermatitis is increasing worldwide in correlation with air pollution. Various organic
components of pollutants activate the transcription factor AhR (aryl hydrocarbon receptor) …

Screen time at age 1 year and communication and problem-solving developmental delay at 2 and 4 years

I Takahashi, T Obara, M Ishikuro, K Murakami… - JAMA …, 2023‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Whether some domains of child development are specifically associated with
screen time and whether the association continues with age remain unknown. Objective To …