Genetic correlations of polygenic disease traits: from theory to practice

W Van Rheenen, WJ Peyrot, AJ Schork… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The genetic correlation describes the genetic relationship between two traits and can
contribute to a better understanding of the shared biological pathways and/or the causality …

Genetics and gene-environment interactions in childhood and adult onset asthma

E Morales, D Duffy - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease that results from the complex interaction between
genetic factors and environmental exposures that occur at critical periods throughout life. It …

COVID-19 and risk of neurodegenerative disorders: A Mendelian randomization study

C Li, J Liu, J Lin, H Shang - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging evidence has suggested a close correlation between COVID-19 and
neurodegenerative disorders. However, whether there exists a causal association and the …

An integrated framework for local genetic correlation analysis

J Werme, S van der Sluis, D Posthuma, CA de Leeuw - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic correlation (rg) analysis is used to identify phenotypes that may have a shared
genetic basis. Traditionally, rg is studied globally, considering only the average of the …

Improving the trans-ancestry portability of polygenic risk scores by prioritizing variants in predicted cell-type-specific regulatory elements

T Amariuta, K Ishigaki, H Sugishita, T Ohta, M Koido… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Poor trans-ancestry portability of polygenic risk scores is a consequence of Eurocentric
genetic studies and limited knowledge of shared causal variants. Leveraging regulatory …

SUPERGNOVA: local genetic correlation analysis reveals heterogeneous etiologic sharing of complex traits

Y Zhang, Q Lu, Y Ye, K Huang, W Liu, Y Wu, X Zhong… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Local genetic correlation quantifies the genetic similarity of complex traits in specific
genomic regions. However, accurate estimation of local genetic correlation remains …

Population-specific causal disease effect sizes in functionally important regions impacted by selection

H Shi, S Gazal, M Kanai, EM Koch, AP Schoech… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many diseases exhibit population-specific causal effect sizes with trans-ethnic genetic
correlations significantly less than 1, limiting trans-ethnic polygenic risk prediction. We …

A unified framework for cross-population trait prediction by leveraging the genetic correlation of polygenic traits

M Cai, J Xiao, S Zhang, X Wan, H Zhao, G Chen… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
The development of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) has proved useful to stratify the general
European population into different risk groups. However, PRSs are less accurate in non …

Genome-wide association study of smoking trajectory and meta-analysis of smoking status in 842,000 individuals

K Xu, B Li, KA McGinnis, R Vickers-Smith, C Dao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Here we report a large genome-wide association study (GWAS) for longitudinal smoking
phenotypes in 286,118 individuals from the Million Veteran Program (MVP) where we …

Genetic correlations among psychiatric and immune‐related phenotypes based on genome‐wide association data

DS Tylee, J Sun, JL Hess, MA Tahir… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals with psychiatric disorders have elevated rates of autoimmune comorbidity and
altered immune signaling. It is unclear whether these altered immunological states have a …