[HTML][HTML] Diversity and scale: genetic architecture of 2,068 traits in the VA Million Veteran Program

A Verma, JE Huffman, A Rodriguez, M Conery, M Liu… - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have underrepresented individuals from non-
European populations, impeding progress in characterizing the genetic architecture and …

Genetic diversity turns a new PAGE in our understanding of complex traits

GL Wojcik, M Graff, KK Nishimura, R Tao, J Haessler… - BioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have laid the foundation for many downstream
investigations, including the biology of complex traits, drug development, and clinical …

Importance of diversity in precision medicine: Generalizability of genetic associations across ancestry groups toward better identification of disease susceptibility …

LA Cruz, JN Cooke Bailey… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revolutionized our understanding of common
genetic variation and its impact on common human disease and traits. Developed and …

Explaining additional genetic variation in complex traits

MR Robinson, NR Wray, PM Visscher - Trends in Genetics, 2014 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have provided valuable insights into the genetic
basis of complex traits, discovering> 6000 variants associated with> 500 quantitative traits …

A global overview of pleiotropy and genetic architecture in complex traits

K Watanabe, S Stringer, O Frei, M Umićević Mirkov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
After a decade of genome-wide association studies (GWASs), fundamental questions in
human genetics, such as the extent of pleiotropy across the genome and variation in genetic …

Thinking about the evolution of complex traits in the era of genome-wide association studies

G Sella, NH Barton - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Many traits of interest are highly heritable and genetically complex, meaning that much of
the variation they exhibit arises from differences at numerous loci in the genome. Complex …

Progress and promise of genome-wide association studies for human complex trait genetics

BE Stranger, EA Stahl, T Raj - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Enormous progress in mapping complex traits in humans has been made in the last 5 yr.
There has been early success for prevalent diseases with complex phenotypes. These …

The future of genomic studies must be globally representative: perspectives from PAGE

SA Bien, GL Wojcik, CJ Hodonsky… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The past decade has seen a technological revolution in human genetics that has
empowered population-level investigations into genetic associations with phenotypes …

PheWAS and beyond: the landscape of associations with medical diagnoses and clinical measures across 38,662 individuals from Geisinger

A Verma, A Lucas, SS Verma, Y Zhang… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Most phenome-wide association studies (PheWASs) to date have used a small to moderate
number of SNPs for association with phenotypic data. We performed a large-scale single …

Admixed populations improve power for variant discovery and portability in genome-wide association studies

M Lin, DS Park, NA Zaitlen, BM Henn… - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are primarily conducted in single-ancestry
settings. The low transferability of results has limited our understanding of human genetic …