Assessment of the genetic and clinical determinants of fracture risk: genome wide association and mendelian randomisation study

K Trajanoska, JA Morris, L Oei, HF Zheng, DM Evans… - bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Objectives To identify the genetic determinants of fracture risk and assess the role of 15
clinical risk factors on osteoporotic fracture risk. Design Meta-analysis of genome wide …

[PDF][PDF] Contrasting the genetic architecture of 30 complex traits from summary association data

H Shi, G Kichaev, B Pasaniuc - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
Variance-component methods that estimate the aggregate contribution of large sets of
variants to the heritability of complex traits have yielded important insights into the genetic …

Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease

J Bryois, NG Skene, TF Hansen, LJA Kogelman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered hundreds of loci associated with
complex brain disorders, but it remains unclear in which cell types these loci are active. Here …

Sociology, genetics, and the coming of age of sociogenomics

MC Mills, FC Tropf - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recent years have seen the birth of sociogenomics via the infusion of molecular genetic
data. We chronicle the history of genetics, focusing particularly on post-2005 genome-wide …

Paediatric and adult-onset male hypogonadism

A Salonia, G Rastrelli, G Hackett… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2019 - nature.com
The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis is of relevance in many processes related to the
development, maturation and ageing of the male. Through this axis, a cascade of …

SumHer better estimates the SNP heritability of complex traits from summary statistics

D Speed, DJ Balding - Nature genetics, 2019 - nature.com
We present SumHer, software for estimating confounding bias, SNP heritability, enrichments
of heritability and genetic correlations using summary statistics from genome-wide …

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
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common illness accompanied by considerable
morbidity, mortality, costs, and heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide …

Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

FR Day, KS Ruth, DJ Thompson, KL Lunetta… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Menopause timing has a substantial impact on infertility and risk of disease, including breast
cancer, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We report a dual strategy …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic associations with gestational duration and spontaneous preterm birth

G Zhang, B Feenstra, J Bacelis, X Liu… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Despite evidence that genetic factors contribute to the duration of gestation and
the risk of preterm birth, robust associations with genetic variants have not been identified …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating gene expression with summary association statistics to identify genes associated with 30 complex traits

N Mancuso, H Shi, P Goddard, G Kichaev… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified thousands of risk loci
for many complex traits and diseases, the causal variants and genes at these loci remain …