GWAS of 165,084 Japanese individuals identified nine loci associated with dietary habits

N Matoba, M Akiyama, K Ishigaki, M Kanai… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
… of the FFQ on the genetic analysis of dietary habits. Second, … the largest genetic cohorts in
Japan, it is difficult currently to … function for binominal or quantitative traits, respectively. Age, …

A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

S Sakaue, M Kanai, Y Tanigawa, J Karjalainen… - … genetics, 2021 - nature.com
… of GWASs in the Japanese population, we identified 519 … European dataset across binary
and quantitative traits (Methods). … of human complex traits in terms of populations and scope of …

Improving the trans-ancestry portability of polygenic risk scores by prioritizing variants in predicted cell-type-specific regulatory elements

T Amariuta, K Ishigaki, H Sugishita, T Ohta, M Koido… - … genetics, 2020 - nature.com
… variation of diverse polygenic diseases and quantitative traits… identified 38 complex traits
whose genetic variation regulates … and serum samples from 12 medical institutions in Japan. …

[HTML][HTML] Dimensionality reduction reveals fine-scale structure in the Japanese population with consequences for polygenic risk prediction

S Sakaue, J Hirata, M Kanai, K Suzuki… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… Since the genetic architecture is different according to trait 33 , the PRS differences need to
… of complex human traits. To this end, we performed GWASs of 45 quantitative traits on the …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic landscape of immune cell-specific gene regulation in immune-mediated diseases

M Ota, Y Nagafuchi, H Hatano, K Ishigaki, C Terao… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
links IMD GWAS variants to susceptible genes, cell types, … Expression quantitative trait loci
(eQTL) analysis revealed … variants in Europeans and it was difficult to fine-map causal eQTL …

Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

K Ishigaki, M Akiyama, M Kanai, A Takahashi… - … genetics, 2020 - nature.com
study provides multiple insights into the etiology of complex traits, and highlights the importance
of conducing genetic … (GTEx) database of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) 33 . …

Open Targets Genetics: systematic identification of trait-associated genes using large-scale genetics and functional genomics

M Ghoussaini, E Mountjoy, M Carmona… - … acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… In order to identify complex traits and diseases that share … traits associated with molecular
quantitative trait loci for the … Some of the statistical genetic analyses we carry out utilise data …

Unravelling the complex genetics of common kidney diseases: from variants to mechanisms

KM Sullivan, K Susztak - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2020 - nature.com
… (quantified through bulk and single-cell methods), gene regulation and other molecular
quantitative trait studies, … Another challenge in gene regulatory region analysis is the ability to link

[HTML][HTML] Whole genome sequencing in the Middle Eastern Qatari population identifies genetic associations with 45 clinically relevant traits

G Thareja, Y Al-Sarraj, A Belkadi, M Almotawa… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
analysis of 45 complex traits We performed genome-wide association analyses of 45
clinically-relevant quantitative traits … as new loci identified in the Japanese population (N = 332). Of …

Multi-omics study for interpretation of genome-wide association study

M Akiyama - Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
… advances in genetic analysis shed light on the polygenic architecture of complex traits, …
Integration of genomic data with other omics data can elucidate quantitative trait locus (QTL) …