[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the promise of inclusion of African ancestry populations in genomics

AR Bentley, SL Callier, CN Rotimi - NPJ genomic medicine, 2020 - nature.com
The lack of representation of diverse ancestral backgrounds in genomic research is well-
known, and the resultant scientific and ethical limitations are becoming increasingly …

Ethnic, gender and other sociodemographic biases in genome-wide association studies for the most burdensome non-communicable diseases: 2005–2022

H Fitipaldi, PW Franks - Human Molecular Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Introduction: Since 2005, disease-related human genetic diversity has been
intensively characterized using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of nine novel loci associated with white blood cell subtypes in a Japanese population

Y Okada, T Hirota, Y Kamatani, A Takahashi… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
White blood cells (WBCs) mediate immune systems and consist of various subtypes with
distinct roles. Elucidation of the mechanism that regulates the counts of the WBC subtypes …

Erythrogene: a database for in-depth analysis of the extensive variation in 36 blood group systems in the 1000 Genomes Project

M Möller, M Jöud, JR Storry, ML Olsson - Blood Advances, 2016 - ashpublications.org
Blood group genotyping has recently developed into a clinical tool to improve compatibility
of blood transfusions and management of pregnancies. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) …

Genome‐wide association studies and the genetic dissection of complex traits

P Sebastiani, N Timofeev, DA Dworkis… - American journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of affordable high throughput technology for parallel genotyping has opened
the field of genetics to genome‐wide association studies (GWAS), and in the last few years …

Multiple loci influence erythrocyte phenotypes in the CHARGE Consortium

SK Ganesh, NA Zakai, FJA Van Rooij, N Soranzo… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Measurements of erythrocytes within the blood are important clinical traits and can indicate
various hematological disorders. We report here genome-wide association studies (GWAS) …

Importance of including non-European populations in large human genetic studies to enhance precision medicine

D Ju, D Hui, DA Hammond, A Wonkam… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
One goal of genomic medicine is to uncover an individual's genetic risk for disease, which
generally requires data connecting genotype to phenotype, as done in genome-wide …

Characterizing race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry for 100,000 subjects in the genetic epidemiology research on adult health and aging (GERA) cohort

Y Banda, MN Kvale, TJ Hoffmann, SE Hesselson… - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Using genome-wide genotypes, we characterized the genetic structure of 103,006
participants in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California multi-ethnic Genetic Epidemiology …

Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell

P Van Der Harst, W Zhang, I Mateo Leach, A Rendon… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Anaemia is a chief determinant of global ill health, contributing to cognitive impairment,
growth retardation and impaired physical capacity. To understand further the genetic factors …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic ancestry, admixture and health determinants in Latin America

ET Norris, L Wang, AB Conley, L Rishishwar… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Modern Latin American populations were formed via genetic admixture
among ancestral source populations from Africa, the Americas and Europe. We are …