A unified framework for estimating country-specific cumulative incidence for 18 diseases stratified by polygenic risk

B Jermy, K Läll, BN Wolford, Y Wang, K Zguro… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGSs) offer the ability to predict genetic risk for complex diseases across
the life course; a key benefit over short-term prediction models. To produce risk estimates …

Leveraging sex-genetic interactions to understand brain disorders: recent advances and current gaps

N Neale, F Lona-Durazo, M Ryten… - Brain …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
It is established that there are sex differences in terms of prevalence, age of onset, clinical
manifestations, and response to treatment for a variety of brain disorders, including …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank

A Durvasula, AL Price - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The role of gene-environment (GxE) interaction in disease and complex trait architectures is
widely hypothesized, but currently unknown. Here, we apply three statistical approaches to …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-stratified genome-wide association and transcriptome-wide Mendelian randomization studies reveal drug targets of heart failure

Q Yang, Q Yang, X Wu, R Zheng, H Lin, S Wang… - Cell Reports …, 2024 - cell.com
The prevalence of heart failure (HF) subtypes, which are classified by left ventricular ejection
fraction (LVEF), demonstrate significant sex differences. Here, we perform sex-stratified …

Better together against genetic heterogeneity: A sex-combined joint main and interaction analysis of 290 quantitative traits in the UK Biobank

B Lin, AD Paterson, L Sun - Plos Genetics, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Genetic effects can be sex-specific, particularly for traits such as testosterone, a sex
hormone. While sex-stratified analysis provides easily interpretable sex-specific effect size …

Comparison of the Multivariate Genetic Architecture of Eight Major Psychiatric Disorders Across Sex

T Schwaba, TT Mallard, AX Maihofer, M Rhemtulla… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Differences in the patterning of genetic sharing and differentiation between groups may
arise from differences in biological pathways, social mechanisms, phenotyping and …

Gender Control of Mouse Embryos by Activation of TLR7/8 on X Sperm via Ligands dsRNA-40 and dsRNA-DR

Y Hou, J Peng, L Hong, Z Wu, E Zheng, Z Li - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Gender control technologies are promising for enhancing the production efficiency of the
farm animal industry, and preventing sex-linked hereditary diseases in humans. It has been …

Genomics Research of Lifetime Depression in the Netherlands: The BIObanks Netherlands Internet Collaboration (BIONIC) Project

F Huider, Y Milaneschi, JJ Hottenga, M Bot… - Twin research and …, 2024 - cambridge.org
In this cohort profile article we describe the lifetime major depressive disorder (MDD)
database that has been established as part of the BIObanks Netherlands Internet …

Sex-specific genetic determinants of right ventricular structure and function

L Harbaum, JK Hennigs, J Pott, J Ostermann… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background: While sex differences in right heart phenotypes have been observed, the
molecular drivers remain unknown. We used common genetic variation to provide biological …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic correlations of alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder with sex hormone levels in females and males

C Waller, A Ho, A Batzler, J Geske, V Karpyak… - Research …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Alcohol consumption behaviors and alcohol use disorder risk and presentation
differ by sex, and these complex traits are associated with blood concentrations of the …