Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

Coming of age: ten years of next-generation sequencing technologies

S Goodwin, JD McPherson, WR McCombie - Nature reviews genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Since the completion of the human genome project in 2003, extraordinary progress has
been made in genome sequencing technologies, which has led to a decreased cost per …

FinnGen: Unique genetic insights from combining isolated population and national health register data

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - medrxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Population isolates such as Finland provide benefits in genetic studies because the allelic
spectrum of damaging alleles in any gene is often concentrated on a small number of low …

[HTML][HTML] A global reference for human genetic variation

1000 Genomes Project Consortium - Nature, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The 1000 Genomes Project set out to provide a comprehensive description of
common human genetic variation by applying whole-genome sequencing to a diverse set of …

Next-generation genotype imputation service and methods

S Das, L Forer, S Schönherr, C Sidore, AE Locke… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genotype imputation is a key component of genetic association studies, where it increases
power, facilitates meta-analysis, and aids interpretation of signals. Genotype imputation is …

A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

Nature genetics, 2016 - nature.com
We describe a reference panel of 64,976 human haplotypes at 39,235,157 SNPs
constructed using whole-genome sequence data from 20 studies of predominantly …

Complex genetic signatures in immune cells underlie autoimmunity and inform therapy

V Orrù, M Steri, C Sidore, M Marongiu, V Serra, S Olla… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We report on the influence of~ 22 million variants on 731 immune cell traits in a cohort of
3,757 Sardinians. We detected 122 significant (P< 1.28× 10− 11) independent association …

Causal role of immune cells in schizophrenia: Mendelian randomization (MR) study

C Wang, D Zhu, D Zhang, X Zuo, L Yao, T Liu, X Ge… - BMC psychiatry, 2023 - Springer
Background Complex immune-brain interactions that affect neural development, survival
and function might have causal and therapeutic implications for psychiatric illnesses …

Genetics of blood lipids among~ 300,000 multi-ethnic participants of the Million Veteran Program

D Klarin, SM Damrauer, K Cho, YV Sun, TM Teslovich… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Million Veteran Program (MVP) was established in 2011 as a national research
initiative to determine how genetic variation influences the health of US military veterans …

Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

E Marouli, M Graff, C Medina-Gomez, KS Lo, AR Wood… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Height is a highly heritable, classic polygenic trait with approximately 700 common
associated variants identified through genome-wide association studies so far. Here, we …