Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

W Van Rheenen, A Shatunov, AM Dekker… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
… Through imputation and mixed-model association analysis in 12,577 cases and 23,475 … a
new risk locus on chromosome 21 and identified C21orf2 as a gene associated with ALS risk. …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 11 risk variants associated with the asthma with hay fever phenotype

MAR Ferreira, MC Matheson, CS Tang… - Journal of allergy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
… to compare the association of each variant with the 2 … variants have stronger associations
with the risk of asthma, whereas the LRRC32 variant has a stronger association with the risk

Rare-variant association analysis: study designs and statistical tests

S Lee, GR Abecasis, M Boehnke, X Lin - The American Journal of Human …, 2014 - cell.com
… rare variants. In this review, we provide an overview of statistical issues in rare-variant
association … We present the design and analysis pipeline of rare-variant studies and review cost-…

Genome-wide association analyses identify 143 risk variants and putative regulatory mechanisms for type 2 diabetes

A Xue, Y Wu, Z Zhu, F Zhang, KE Kemper… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… Very few rare variants-associated with T2D have been identified in previous studies 26,…
variants (0.0001 ≤ MAF < 0.01) in the association analysis in UKB and detected 11 rare variants

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

NR Wray, S Ripke, M Mattheisen, M Trzaskowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis based
in … were enriched for smaller association signal. We found important relationships of genetic …

Analysis of case–control association studies with known risk variants

N Zaitlen, B Paşaniuc, N Patterson, S Pollack… - …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… increase as more variance in disease risk is explained by risk variants that are identified.
We release a software package implementing LTSCORE for use in future association studies. …

Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

JR Huyghe, SA Bien, TA Harrison, HM Kang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
analyses suggest that CRC risk is highly polygenic, and larger, more comprehensive studies
enabling rare variant analysis will improve understanding of biology underlying this risk

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… With a marked sample-size increase from a unique Danish population resource, we
report a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 18,381 individuals with ASD and 27,969 …

[HTML][HTML] Imputation of sequence variants for identification of genetic risks for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

International Parkinson Disease Genomics Consortium - The Lancet, 2011 - Elsevier
… consequences of risk variants identified in our study by examining the association between
… Our primary interest in these single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based analyses was to …

Genome-wide association study of cannabis dependence severity, novel risk variants, and shared genetic risks

R Sherva, Q Wang, H Kranzler, H Zhao… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
… wide significant (GWS) associations were observed for initiation of use 17 or for CAD. Herein
we report on findings for DSM-IV CAD criteria from association analyses performed in large …