15 years of GWAS discovery: Realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of behavioral and brain-related traits

MC de Hemptinne, D Posthuma - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Addressing the ethical and societal challenges posed by genome-wide association studies of
behavioral and brain-related traits | Nature Neuroscience Skip to main content Thank you for …

Depression pathophysiology, risk prediction of recurrence and comorbid psychiatric disorders using genome-wide analyses

TD Als, MI Kurki, J Grove, G Voloudakis, K Therrien… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Depression is a common psychiatric disorder and a leading cause of disability worldwide.
Here we conducted a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of six datasets …

Illuminating the 'healthy obese'phenotype

M Rask-Andersen, Å Johansson - Nature Metabolism, 2023 - nature.com
Some individuals with obesity have a healthy metabolic profile and are not at increased risk
for diabetes or cardiovascular disease. The mechanisms behind this phenomenon are …

Precision medicine in complex diseases—Molecular subgrouping for improved prediction and treatment stratification

Å Johansson, OA Andreassen, S Brunak… - Journal of internal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Complex diseases are caused by a combination of genetic, lifestyle, and environmental
factors and comprise common noncommunicable diseases, including allergies …

The genetic architecture and evolution of the human skeletal form

E Kun, EM Javan, O Smith, F Gulamali, J de la Fuente… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The human skeletal form underlies bipedalism, but the genetic basis of skeletal proportions
(SPs) is not well characterized. We applied deep-learning models to 31,221 x-rays from the …

[HTML][HTML] Height-Related Polygenic Variants Are Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Risk and Interact with Energy Intake and a Rice-Main Diet to Influence Height in …

S Park - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Adult height is inversely related to metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk, but its genetic impacts
have not been revealed. The present study aimed to examine the hypothesis that adult …

[PDF][PDF] Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts

Y Wang, S Namba, E Lopera, S Kerminen, K Tsuo… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been widely explored in precision medicine. However,
few studies have thoroughly investigated their best practices in global populations across …

[PDF][PDF] Genotyping and population characteristics of the China Kadoorie Biobank

RG Walters, IY Millwood, K Lin, DS Valle, P McDonnell… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) is a population-based prospective cohort of>
512,000 adults recruited from 2004 to 2008 from 10 geographically diverse regions across …

Single-cell genomics meets human genetics

ASE Cuomo, A Nathan, S Raychaudhuri… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In this Review, the authors describe the emerging field of single-cell genetics, which lies at
the intersection of single-cell genomics and human genetics. They review the first single-cell …