2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) …

IC Van Gelder, M Rienstra, KV Bunting… - European Heart …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
• The specific situation of the patient. Unless otherwise provided for by national regulations,
off-label use of medication should be limited to situations where it is in the patient's interest …

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 …

Epidemiology and modifiable risk factors for atrial fibrillation

AD Elliott, ME Middeldorp, IC Van Gelder… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The global prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) has increased substantially over the past
three decades and is currently approximately 60 million cases. Incident AF and its clinical …

A multi-ancestry polygenic risk score improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease

AP Patel, M Wang, Y Ruan, S Koyama, SL Clarke… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of individuals at highest risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)—ideally before
onset—remains an important public health need. Prior studies have developed genome …

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 …

Genome-wide association analyses define pathogenic signaling pathways and prioritize drug targets for IgA nephropathy

K Kiryluk, E Sanchez-Rodriguez, XJ Zhou, F Zanoni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is a progressive form of kidney disease defined by glomerular
deposition of IgA. Here we performed a genome-wide association study of 10,146 kidney …

Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations

C Tcheandjieu, X Zhu, AT Hilliard, SL Clarke… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of coronary artery disease (CAD)
incorporating nearly a quarter of a million cases, in which existing studies are integrated with …

Polygenic risk scores for cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

JW O'Sullivan, S Raghavan, C Marquez-Luna… - Circulation, 2022 - ahajournals.org
Cardiovascular disease is the leading contributor to years lost due to disability or premature
death among adults. Current efforts focus on risk prediction and risk factor mitigation ‚which …

Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes

DJ Weiner, A Nadig, KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, BM Neale… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Both common and rare genetic variants influence complex traits and common diseases.
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …

Atlas of plasma NMR biomarkers for health and disease in 118,461 individuals from the UK Biobank

H Julkunen, A Cichońska, M Tiainen, H Koskela… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Blood lipids and metabolites are markers of current health and future disease risk. Here, we
describe plasma nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) biomarker data for 118,461 …