Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank

N Sinnott-Armstrong, Y Tanigawa, D Amar, N Mars… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical laboratory tests are a critical component of the continuum of care. We evaluate the
genetic basis of 35 blood and urine laboratory measurements in the UK Biobank (n …

[HTML][HTML] Genetically determined serum urate levels and cardiovascular and other diseases in UK Biobank cohort: A phenome-wide mendelian randomization study

X Li, X Meng, Y He, A Spiliopoulou, M Timofeeva… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background The role of urate in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has been extensively
investigated in observational studies; however, the extent of any causal effect remains …

[HTML][HTML] The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

C Bycroft, C Freeman, D Petkova, G Band, LT Elliott… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The UK Biobank project is a prospective cohort study with deep genetic and phenotypic data
collected on approximately 500,000 individuals from across the United Kingdom, aged …

A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

S Sakaue, M Kanai, Y Tanigawa, J Karjalainen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Current genome-wide association studies do not yet capture sufficient diversity in
populations and scope of phenotypes. To expand an atlas of genetic associations in non …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide analysis of health-related biomarkers in the UK Household Longitudinal Study reveals novel associations

BP Prins, KB Kuchenbaecker, Y Bao, M Smart… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Serum biomarker levels are associated with the risk of complex diseases. Here, we aimed to
gain insights into the genetic architecture of biomarker traits which can reflect health status …

Plasma proteome analyses in individuals of European and African ancestry identify cis-pQTLs and models for proteome-wide association studies

J Zhang, D Dutta, A Köttgen, A Tin, P Schlosser… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved understanding of genetic regulation of the proteome can facilitate identification of
the causal mechanisms for complex traits. We analyzed data on 4,657 plasma proteins from …

[PDF][PDF] Genomewide association studies--illuminating biologic pathways

JN Hirschhorn - New England journal of medicine, 2009 - enigma.ini.usc.edu
Human geneticists seek to understand the inherited basis of human biology and disease,
aiming either to gain insights that could eventually improve treatment or to produce useful …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular insights into genome-wide association studies of chronic kidney disease-defining traits

X Xu, JM Eales, A Akbarov, H Guo, L Becker… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified> 100 loci of chronic kidney
disease-defining traits (CKD-dt). Molecular mechanisms underlying these associations …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale plasma proteomics comparisons through genetics and disease associations

GH Eldjarn, E Ferkingstad, SH Lund, H Helgason… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput proteomics platforms measuring thousands of proteins in plasma combined
with genomic and phenotypic information have the power to bridge the gap between the …

[HTML][HTML] The path from genome-based research to population health: development of an international public health genomics network

W Burke, MJ Khoury, A Stewart, RL Zimmern - Genetics in Medicine, 2006 - nature.com
The health benefits of the Human Genome Project have been widely anticipated. Experts
predict a new era of individualized disease prevention based on testing for genetic …