Genome-wide analysis of health-related biomarkers in the UK Household Longitudinal Study reveals novel associations

BP Prins, KB Kuchenbaecker, Y Bao, M Smart… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Serum biomarker levels are associated with the risk of complex diseases. Here, we aimed to
gain insights into the genetic architecture of biomarker traits which can reflect health status …

Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank

N Sinnott-Armstrong, Y Tanigawa, D Amar, N Mars… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical laboratory tests are a critical component of the continuum of care. We evaluate the
genetic basis of 35 blood and urine laboratory measurements in the UK Biobank (n …

Large-scale plasma proteomics comparisons through genetics and disease associations

GH Eldjarn, E Ferkingstad, SH Lund, H Helgason… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput proteomics platforms measuring thousands of proteins in plasma combined
with genomic and phenotypic information have the power to bridge the gap between the …

Insight in genome-wide association of metabolite quantitative traits by exome sequence analyses

A Demirkan, P Henneman, A Verhoeven… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Metabolite quantitative traits carry great promise for epidemiological studies, and their
genetic background has been addressed using Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) …

Genome-wide association with select biomarker traits in the Framingham Heart Study

EJ Benjamin, J Dupuis, MG Larson, KL Lunetta… - BMC medical …, 2007 - Springer
Background Systemic biomarkers provide insights into disease pathogenesis, diagnosis,
and risk stratification. Many systemic biomarker concentrations are heritable phenotypes …

GWAS of three molecular traits highlights core genes and pathways alongside a highly polygenic background

N Sinnott-Armstrong, S Naqvi, M Rivas, JK Pritchard - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to study the genetic basis of a
wide variety of complex diseases and other traits. We describe UK Biobank GWAS results for …

Genetic analysis in European ancestry individuals identifies 517 loci associated with liver enzymes

R Pazoki, M Vujkovic, J Elliott, E Evangelou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Serum concentration of hepatic enzymes are linked to liver dysfunction, metabolic and
cardiovascular diseases. We perform genetic analysis on serum levels of alanine …

Replication and extension of genome-wide association study results for obesity in 4923 adults from northern Sweden

F Renström, F Payne, A Nordström… - Human molecular …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple risk loci for
common obesity (FTO, MC4R, TMEM18, GNPDA2, SH2B1, KCTD15, MTCH2, NEGR1 and …

Exome sequencing-driven discovery of coding polymorphisms associated with common metabolic phenotypes

A Albrechtsen, N Grarup, Y Li, T Sparsø, G Tian, H Cao… - Diabetologia, 2013 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Human complex metabolic traits are in part regulated by genetic
determinants. Here we applied exome sequencing to identify novel associations of coding …

Cohort profile: the Oxford biobank

F Karpe, SK Vasan, SM Humphreys… - International Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Major progress has been made over the past decade in the understanding of the genetic
background to chronic metabolic disease such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) and atherosclerotic …