[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies in ancestrally diverse populations: opportunities, methods, pitfalls, and recommendations

RE Peterson, K Kuchenbaecker, RK Walters, CY Chen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have focused primarily on populations of
European descent, but it is essential that diverse populations become better represented …

A generalized linear mixed model association tool for biobank-scale data

L Jiang, Z Zheng, H Fang, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Compared with linear mixed model-based genome-wide association (GWA) methods,
generalized linear mixed model (GLMM)-based methods have better statistical properties …

Statistical methods for genome-wide association studies

MH Wang, HJ Cordell, K Van Steen - Seminars in cancer biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) detect common genetic variants associated with
complex disorders. With their comprehensive coverage of common single nucleotide …

Efficiently controlling for case-control imbalance and sample relatedness in large-scale genetic association studies

W Zhou, JB Nielsen, LG Fritsche, R Dey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for thousands of phenotypes in large biobanks,
most binary traits have substantially fewer cases than controls. Both of the widely used …

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 …

Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale

X Li, Z Li, H Zhou, SM Gaynor, Y Liu, H Chen, R Sun… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies have enabled the analysis of rare variants
(RVs) associated with complex phenotypes. Commonly used RV association tests have …

Genetic association testing using the GENESIS R/Bioconductor package

SM Gogarten, T Sofer, H Chen, C Yu, JA Brody… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Summary The Genomic Data Storage (GDS) format provides efficient storage and
retrieval of genotypes measured by microarrays and sequencing. We developed GENESIS …

ACAT: a fast and powerful p value combination method for rare-variant analysis in sequencing studies

Y Liu, S Chen, Z Li, AC Morrison, E Boerwinkle… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Set-based analysis that jointly tests the association of variants in a group has emerged as a
popular tool for analyzing rare and low-frequency variants in sequencing studies. The …

Powerful, scalable and resource-efficient meta-analysis of rare variant associations in large whole genome sequencing studies

X Li, C Quick, H Zhou, SM Gaynor, Y Liu, H Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Meta-analysis of whole genome sequencing/whole exome sequencing (WGS/WES) studies
provides an attractive solution to the problem of collecting large sample sizes for discovering …

Genome-wide association study reveals new insights into the heritability and genetic correlates of developmental dyslexia

A Gialluisi, TFM Andlauer, N Mirza-Schreiber… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a learning disorder affecting the ability to read, with a
heritability of 40–60%. A notable part of this heritability remains unexplained, and large …