15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

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 …

A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

L Yengo, S Vedantam, E Marouli, J Sidorenko, E Bartell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–
50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in∼ 700000 individuals of European ancestry

L Yengo, J Sidorenko, KE Kemper… - Human molecular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of height and body mass index (BMI) in∼
250000 European participants have led to the discovery of∼ 700 and∼ 100 nearly …

Chromatin accessibility and the regulatory epigenome

SL Klemm, Z Shipony, WJ Greenleaf - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Physical access to DNA is a highly dynamic property of chromatin that plays an essential
role in establishing and maintaining cellular identity. The organization of accessible …

Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression

J Bowden, G Davey Smith… - International journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background: The number of Mendelian randomization analyses including large
numbers of genetic variants is rapidly increasing. This is due to the proliferation of genome …

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

C Pantelis, GN Papadimitriou, S Papiol… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genetic risk is conferred by a large number of
alleles, including common alleles of small effect that might be detected by genome-wide …

An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

B Bulik-Sullivan, HK Finucane, V Anttila, A Gusev… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying genetic correlations between complex traits and diseases can provide useful
etiological insights and help prioritize likely causal relationships. The major challenges …

A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

Nature genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Existing knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is
largely based on genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of common SNPs …

LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies

BK Bulik-Sullivan, PR Loh, HK Finucane, S Ripke… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Both polygenicity (many small genetic effects) and confounding biases, such as cryptic
relatedness and population stratification, can yield an inflated distribution of test statistics in …