Meta‐analysis and Mendelian randomization: a review

J Bowden, MV Holmes - Research synthesis methods, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mendelian randomization (MR) uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to infer
whether a risk factor causally affects a health outcome. Meta‐analysis has been used …

BMP signalling in skeletal development, disease and repair

VS Salazar, LW Gamer, V Rosen - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2016 - nature.com
Since the identification in 1988 of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) as a potent inducer
of bone and cartilage formation, BMP superfamily signalling has become one of the most …

Effect of host genetics on the gut microbiome in 7,738 participants of the Dutch Microbiome Project

EA Lopera-Maya, A Kurilshikov, A van der Graaf, S Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Host genetics are known to influence the gut microbiome, yet their role remains poorly
understood. To robustly characterize these effects, we performed a genome-wide …

A resource-efficient tool for mixed model association analysis of large-scale data

L Jiang, Z Zheng, T Qi, KE Kemper, NR Wray… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been widely used as an experimental
design to detect associations between genetic variants and a phenotype. Two major …

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

D Shungin, TW Winkler, DC Croteau-Chonka… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic
outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic …

Largest GWAS of PTSD (N= 20 070) yields genetic overlap with schizophrenia and sex differences in heritability

LE Duncan, A Ratanatharathorn, AE Aiello… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder group (PGC-
PTSD) combined genome-wide case–control molecular genetic data across 11 multiethnic …

Challenges and future directions for studying effects of host genetics on the gut microbiome

S Sanna, A Kurilshikov, A van der Graaf, J Fu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The human gut microbiome is a complex ecosystem that is involved in its host's metabolism,
immunity and health. Although interindividual variations in gut microbial composition are …

Chapter 11: Genome-wide association studies

WS Bush, JH Moore - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have evolved over the last ten years into a
powerful tool for investigating the genetic architecture of human disease. In this work, we …

Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

H Lango Allen, K Estrada, G Lettre, SI Berndt… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Most common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA
sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association …

MaCH: using sequence and genotype data to estimate haplotypes and unobserved genotypes

Y Li, CJ Willer, J Ding, P Scheet… - Genetic …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) can identify common alleles that contribute to
complex disease susceptibility. Despite the large number of SNPs assessed in each study …