Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

Human genetics and epigenetics of alcohol use disorder

H Zhou, J Gelernter - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2024 - jci.org
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a prominent contributor to global morbidity and mortality. Its
complex etiology involves genetics, epigenetics, and environmental factors. We review …

MESuSiE enables scalable and powerful multi-ancestry fine-map** of causal variants in genome-wide association studies

B Gao, X Zhou - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Fine-map** in genome-wide association studies attempts to identify causal SNPs from a
set of candidate SNPs in a local genomic region of interest and is commonly performed in …

Fine-map** causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci

BJ Strober, MJ Zhang, T Amariuta, J Rossen… - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
Complex diseases often have distinct mechanisms spanning multiple tissues. We propose
tissue–gene fine-map** (TGFM), which infers the posterior inclusion probability (PIP) for …

Genetic architecture of routinely acquired blood tests in a British South Asian cohort

BM Jacobs, D Stow, S Hodgson, J Zöllner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the genetic basis of routinely-acquired blood tests can provide insights into
several aspects of human physiology. We report a genome-wide association study of 42 …

Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations

TT Chen, J Kim, M Lam, YF Chuang, YL Chiu… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Educational attainment (EduYears), a heritable trait often used as a proxy for cognitive
ability, is associated with various health and social outcomes. Previous genome-wide …

Genetic control of DNA methylation is largely shared across European and East Asian populations

AA Hatton, FF Cheng, T Lin, RJ Shen, J Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an ideal trait to study the extent of the shared genetic control across
ancestries, effectively providing hundreds of thousands of model molecular traits with large …

Whole genome association testing in 333,100 individuals across three biobanks identifies rare non-coding single variant and genomic aggregate associations with …

G Hawkes, RN Beaumont, Z Li, R Mandla, X Li… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The role of rare non-coding variation in complex human phenotypes is still largely unknown.
To elucidate the impact of rare variants in regulatory elements, we performed a whole …

Human height: a model common complex trait

M Conery, SFA Grant - Annals of human biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Context Like other complex phenotypes, human height reflects a combination of
environmental and genetic factors, but is notable for being exceptionally easy to measure …