Genome-wide association meta-analysis of spontaneous coronary artery dissection identifies risk variants and genes related to artery integrity and tissue-mediated …

D Adlam, TE Berrandou, A Georges, CP Nelson… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an understudied cause of myocardial
infarction primarily affecting women. It is not known to what extent SCAD is genetically …

The genetic basis of major depressive disorder

J Flint - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
The genetic dissection of major depressive disorder (MDD) ranks as one of the success
stories of psychiatric genetics, with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identifying …

Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

R Karlsson Linnér, P Biroli, E Kong, SFW Meddens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1
million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk …

Genome-wide association analyses identify new Brugada syndrome risk loci and highlight a new mechanism of sodium channel regulation in disease susceptibility

J Barc, R Tadros, C Glinge, DY Chiang, M Jouni… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a cardiac arrhythmia disorder associated with sudden death in
young adults. With the exception of SCN5A, encoding the cardiac sodium channel NaV1. 5 …

Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types

HK Finucane, YA Reshef, V Anttila, K Slowikowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We introduce an approach to identify disease-relevant tissues and cell types by analyzing
gene expression data together with genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary …

Brain proteome-wide association study implicates novel proteins in depression pathogenesis

TS Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, J Gockley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Depression is a common condition, but current treatments are only effective in a subset of
individuals. To identify new treatment targets, we integrated depression genome-wide …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications

DF Levey, M Galimberti, JD Deak, FR Wendt… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
As recreational use of cannabis is being decriminalized in many places and medical use
widely sanctioned, there are growing concerns about increases in cannabis use disorder …

[PDF][PDF] Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects

H Xue, X Shen, W Pan - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
With the increasing availability of large-scale GWAS summary data on various complex traits
and diseases, there have been tremendous interests in applications of Mendelian …

Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy

JP Pirruccello, A Bick, M Wang, M Chaffin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of heart failure and the leading
indication for heart transplantation. Many rare genetic variants have been associated with …

Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

A Giri, JN Hellwege, JM Keaton, J Park, C Qiu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In this trans-ethnic multi-omic study, we reinterpret the genetic architecture of blood pressure
to identify genes, tissues, phenomes and medication contexts of blood pressure …