Population-specific and trans-ancestry genome-wide analyses identify distinct and shared genetic risk loci for coronary artery disease

S Koyama, K Ito, C Terao, M Akiyama, M Horikoshi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To elucidate the genetics of coronary artery disease (CAD) in the Japanese population, we
conducted a large-scale genome-wide association study of 168,228 individuals of Japanese …

Revolutionizing cancer research: the impact of artificial intelligence in digital biobanking

C Frascarelli, G Bonizzi, CR Musico, E Mane… - Journal of Personalized …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background. Biobanks are vital research infrastructures aiming to collect, process, store, and
distribute biological specimens along with associated data in an organized and governed …

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 …

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 …

Rare coding variant analysis for human diseases across biobanks and ancestries

SJ Jurgens, X Wang, SH Choi, LC Weng, S Koyama… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Large-scale sequencing has enabled unparalleled opportunities to investigate the role of
rare coding variation in human phenotypic variability. Here, we present a pan-ancestry …

Scalable generalized linear mixed model for region-based association tests in large biobanks and cohorts

W Zhou, Z Zhao, JB Nielsen, LG Fritsche, J LeFaive… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
With very large sample sizes, biobanks provide an exciting opportunity to identify genetic
components of complex traits. To analyze rare variants, region-based multiple-variant …

Identity-by-descent detection across 487,409 British samples reveals fine scale population structure and ultra-rare variant associations

J Nait Saada, G Kalantzis, D Shyr, F Cooper… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Detection of Identical-By-Descent (IBD) segments provides a fundamental measure
of genetic relatedness and plays a key role in a wide range of analyses. We develop …

Widespread genomic influences on phenotype in Dravet syndrome, a 'monogenic'condition

H Martins Custodio, LM Clayton, R Bellampalli, S Pagni… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Dravet syndrome is an archetypal rare severe epilepsy, considered 'monogenic', typically
caused by loss-of-function SCN1A variants. Despite a recognizable core phenotype, its …

[HTML][HTML] A fast and accurate method for genome-wide time-to-event data analysis and its application to UK Biobank

W Bi, LG Fritsche, B Mukherjee, S Kim, S Lee - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
With increasing biobanking efforts connecting electronic health records and national
registries to germline genetics, the time-to-event data analysis has attracted increasing …

Exome-wide evaluation of rare coding variants using electronic health records identifies new gene–phenotype associations

J Park, AM Lucas, X Zhang, K Chaudhary, JH Cho… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
The clinical impact of rare loss-of-function variants has yet to be determined for most genes.
Integration of DNA sequencing data with electronic health records (EHRs) could enhance …