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 …

Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects

H Xue, X Shen, W Pan - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021‏ - cell.com
With the increasing availability of large-scale GWAS summary data on various complex traits
and diseases, there have been tremendous interests in applications of Mendelian …

A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …

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 …

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 …

Genetics of obesity: what we have learned over decades of research

C Bouchard - Obesity, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
There is a genetic component to human obesity that accounts for 40% to 50% of the
variability in body weight status but that is lower among normal weight individuals (about …

Analysis of rare genetic variation underlying cardiometabolic diseases and traits among 200,000 individuals in the UK Biobank

SJ Jurgens, SH Choi, VN Morrill, M Chaffin… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Cardiometabolic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite a known
genetic component, our understanding of these diseases remains incomplete. Here, we …

Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation

S Fan, JP Spence, Y Feng, MEB Hansen, J Terhorst… - Cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
We conduct high coverage (> 30×) whole-genome sequencing of 180 individuals from 12
indigenous African populations. We identify millions of unreported variants, many predicted …