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 …

Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses

SW Choi, TSH Mak, PF O'Reilly - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
A polygenic score (PGS) or polygenic risk score (PRS) is an estimate of an individual's
genetic liability to a trait or disease, calculated according to their genotype profile and …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of insomnia prioritizes genes associated with metabolic and psychiatric pathways

K Watanabe, PR Jansen, JE Savage, P Nandakumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insomnia is a heritable, highly prevalent sleep disorder for which no sufficient treatment
currently exists. Previous genome-wide association studies with up to 1.3 million subjects …

PRSice-2: Polygenic Risk Score software for biobank-scale data

SW Choi, PF O'Reilly - Gigascience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Polygenic risk score (PRS) analyses have become an integral part of
biomedical research, exploited to gain insights into shared aetiology among traits, to control …

Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

MA Nalls, C Blauwendraat, CL Vallerga… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Parkinson's disease have
increased the scope of biological knowledge about the disease over the past decade. We …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

DM Howard, MJ Adams, TK Clarke, JD Hafferty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low
mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to …

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk

IE Jansen, JE Savage, K Watanabe, J Bryois… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is highly heritable and recent studies have identified over 20
disease-associated genomic loci. Yet these only explain a small proportion of the genetic …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation GrimAge version 2

AT Lu, AM Binder, J Zhang, Q Yan, AP Reiner… - Aging (Albany …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We previously described a DNA methylation (DNAm) based biomarker of human mortality
risk DNAm GrimAge. Here we describe version 2 of GrimAge (trained on individuals aged …

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 …