The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

[PDF][PDF] Psoriasis and genetics

N Dand, SK Mahil, F Capon, CH Smith… - Acta Derm …, 2020 - core.ac.uk
Theme issue: Psoriasis loci. Despite the complex correlation structure across the MHC due
to extensive linkage disequilibrium (Box 1)(16), HLA-C* 06: 02 is now confidently …

Polygenic risk score contribution to psychosis prediction in a target population of persons at clinical high risk

DO Perkins, L Olde Loohuis, J Barbee… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The 2-year risk of psychosis in persons who meet research criteria for a high-risk
syndrome is about 15%− 25%; improvements in risk prediction accuracy would benefit the …

[PDF][PDF] Localizing components of shared transethnic genetic architecture of complex traits from GWAS summary data

H Shi, KS Burch, R Johnson, MK Freund… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Despite strong transethnic genetic correlations reported in the literature for many complex
traits, the non-transferability of polygenic risk scores across populations suggests the …

[PDF][PDF] Combined utility of 25 disease and risk factor polygenic risk scores for stratifying risk of all-cause mortality

A Meisner, P Kundu, YD Zhang, LV Lan, S Kim… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
While genome-wide association studies have identified susceptibility variants for numerous
traits, their combined utility for predicting broad measures of health, such as mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Impute. me: an open-source, non-profit tool for using data from direct-to-consumer genetic testing to calculate and interpret polygenic risk scores

L Folkersen, O Pain, A Ingason, T Werge… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
To date, interpretation of genomic information has focused on single variants conferring
disease risk, but most disorders of major public concern have a polygenic architecture …

Genetically elevated LDL associates with lower risk of intracerebral hemorrhage

GJ Falcone, E Kirsch, JN Acosta, RB Noche… - Annals of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Observational studies point to an inverse correlation between low‐density
lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels and risk of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), but it …

Leveraging effect size distributions to improve polygenic risk scores derived from summary statistics of genome-wide association studies

S Song, W Jiang, L Hou, H Zhao - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Genetic risk prediction is an important problem in human genetics, and accurate prediction
can facilitate disease prevention and treatment. Calculating polygenic risk score (PRS) has …

Sepsis in the era of data-driven medicine: personalizing risks, diagnoses, treatments and prognoses

AC Liu, K Patel, RD Vunikili, KW Johnson… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sepsis is a series of clinical syndromes caused by the immunological response to infection.
The clinical evidence for sepsis could typically attribute to bacterial infection or bacterial …

A polygenic predictor of treatment-resistant depression using whole exome sequencing and genome-wide genotyping

C Fabbri, S Kasper, A Kautzky, J Zohar… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) occurs in~ 30% of patients with major
depressive disorder (MDD) but the genetics of TRD was previously poorly investigated …