Genetic correlations of polygenic disease traits: from theory to practice

W Van Rheenen, WJ Peyrot, AJ Schork… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The genetic correlation describes the genetic relationship between two traits and can
contribute to a better understanding of the shared biological pathways and/or the causality …

Recent advances and challenges of rare variant association analysis in the biobank sequencing era

W Chen, BJ Coombes, NB Larson - Frontiers in genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Causal variants for rare genetic diseases are often rare in the general population. Rare
variants may also contribute to common complex traits and can have much larger per-allele …

Genomic structural equation modelling provides insights into the multivariate genetic architecture of complex traits

AD Grotzinger, M Rhemtulla, R de Vlaming… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic correlations estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) reveal
pervasive pleiotropy across a wide variety of phenotypes. We introduce genomic structural …

Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG

P Turley, RK Walters, O Maghzian, A Okbay, JJ Lee… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We introduce multi-trait analysis of GWAS (MTAG), a method for joint analysis of summary
statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of different traits, possibly from …

Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies

A Gusev, A Ko, H Shi, G Bhatia, W Chung… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Many genetic variants influence complex traits by modulating gene expression, thus altering
the abundance of one or multiple proteins. Here we introduce a powerful strategy that …

Identifying gene targets for brain-related traits using transcriptomic and methylomic data from blood

T Qi, Y Wu, J Zeng, F Zhang, A Xue, L Jiang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the difference in genetic regulation of gene expression between brain and
blood is important for discovering genes for brain-related traits and disorders. Here, we …

Shared genetic and experimental links between obesity-related traits and asthma subtypes in UK Biobank

Z Zhu, Y Guo, H Shi, CL Liu, RA Panganiban… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Clinical and epidemiologic studies have shown that obesity is associated with
asthma and that these associations differ by asthma subtype. Little is known about the …

Genome-wide association analyses using electronic health records identify new loci influencing blood pressure variation

TJ Hoffmann, GB Ehret, P Nandakumar, D Ranatunga… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Longitudinal electronic health records on 99,785 Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult
Health and Aging (GERA) cohort individuals provided 1,342,814 systolic and diastolic blood …

Multivariate genome-wide analyses of the well-being spectrum

BML Baselmans, R Jansen, HF Ip, J van Dongen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We introduce two novel methods for multivariate genome-wide-association meta-analysis
(GWAMA) of related traits that correct for sample overlap. A broad range of simulation …

Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits

JM Lane, J Liang, I Vlasac, SG Anderson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Chronic sleep disturbances, associated with cardiometabolic diseases, psychiatric disorders
and all-cause mortality,, affect 25–30% of adults worldwide. Although environmental factors …