Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Genetics of diabetes mellitus and diabetes complications

JB Cole, JC Florez - Nature reviews nephrology, 2020 - nature.com
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases worldwide, projected to affect 693 million
adults by 2045. Devastating macrovascular complications (cardiovascular disease) and …

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, W Zhang, MCY Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls …

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019

A Buniello, JAL MacArthur, M Cerezo… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The GWAS Catalog delivers a high-quality curated collection of all published genome-wide
association studies enabling investigations to identify causal variants, understand disease …

A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue

MP Emont, C Jacobs, AL Essene, D Pant, D Tenen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
White adipose tissue, once regarded as morphologically and functionally bland, is now
recognized to be dynamic, plastic and heterogenous, and is involved in a wide array of …

Duration and key determinants of infectious virus shedding in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)

JJA van Kampen, DAMC van de Vijver… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Key questions in COVID-19 are the duration and determinants of infectious virus shedding.
Here, we report that infectious virus shedding is detected by virus cultures in 23 of the 129 …

Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations

AV Khera, M Chaffin, KG Aragam, ME Haas, C Roselli… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A key public health need is to identify individuals at high risk for a given disease to enable
enhanced screening or preventive therapies. Because most common diseases have a …

Fine-map** type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps

A Mahajan, D Taliun, M Thurner, NR Robertson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We expanded GWAS discovery for type 2 diabetes (T2D) by combining data from 898,130
European-descent individuals (9% cases), after imputation to high-density reference panels …

Causal relationships among the gut microbiome, short-chain fatty acids and metabolic diseases

S Sanna, NR van Zuydam, A Mahajan, A Kurilshikov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microbiome-wide association studies on large population cohorts have highlighted
associations between the gut microbiome and complex traits, including type 2 diabetes …

Polygenic prediction via Bayesian regression and continuous shrinkage priors

T Ge, CY Chen, Y Ni, YCA Feng, JW Smoller - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have shown promise in predicting human complex traits and
diseases. Here, we present PRS-CS, a polygenic prediction method that infers posterior …