A roadmap to increase diversity in genomic studies

S Fatumo, T Chikowore, A Choudhury, M Ayub… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Two decades ago, the sequence of the first human genome was published. Since then,
advances in genome technologies have resulted in whole-genome sequencing and …

[HTML][HTML] The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biology

RJF Loos, GSH Yeo - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The prevalence of obesity has tripled over the past four decades, imposing an enormous
burden on people's health. Polygenic (or common) obesity and rare, severe, early-onset …

Leveraging fine-mapping and multipopulation training data to improve cross-population polygenic risk scores

O Weissbrod, M Kanai, H Shi, S Gazal, WJ Peyrot… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores suffer reduced accuracy in non-European populations, exacerbating
health disparities. We propose PolyPred, a method that improves cross-population …

The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

J Chen, CN Spracklen, G Marenne, A Varshney… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic
health. To date, most genetic studies of glycemic traits have focused on individuals of …

[HTML][HTML] The road ahead in genetics and genomics

AL McGuire, S Gabriel, SA Tishkoff, A Wonkam… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Nature Reviews Genetics, we asked 12 leading
researchers to reflect on the key challenges and opportunities faced by the field of genetics …

Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation

S Fan, JP Spence, Y Feng, MEB Hansen, J Terhorst… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
We conduct high coverage (> 30×) whole-genome sequencing of 180 individuals from 12
indigenous African populations. We identify millions of unreported variants, many predicted …

African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda

L Pereira, L Mutesa, P Tindana, M Ramsay - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The deep evolutionary history of African populations, since the emergence of modern
humans more than 300,000 years ago, has resulted in high genetic diversity and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Transferability of genetic risk scores in African populations

AB Kamiza, SM Toure, M Vujkovic, T Machipisa… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The poor transferability of genetic risk scores (GRSs) derived from European ancestry data
in diverse populations is a cause of concern. We set out to evaluate whether GRSs derived …

The genetic structure of the Turkish population reveals high levels of variation and admixture

ME Kars, AN Başak, OE Onat… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The construction of population-based variomes has contributed substantially to our
understanding of the genetic basis of human inherited disease. Here, we investigated the …