Heart disease and stroke statistics—2022 update: a report from the American Heart Association

CW Tsao, AW Aday, ZI Almarzooq, A Alonso… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2023 update: a report from the American Heart Association

CW Tsao, AW Aday, ZI Almarzooq, CAM Anderson… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

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 …

Leveraging fine-mapping and multipopulation training data to improve cross-population polygenic risk scores

O Weissbrod, M Kanai, H Shi, S Gazal, WJ Peyrot… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores suffer reduced accuracy in non-European populations, exacerbating
health disparities. We propose PolyPred, a method that improves cross-population …

[PDF][PDF] Ancestry-driven recalibration of tumor mutational burden and disparate clinical outcomes in response to immune checkpoint inhibitors

AH Nassar, E Adib, S Abou Alaiwi, T El Zarif, S Groha… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) pembrolizumab is US FDA approved for treatment of
solid tumors with high tumor mutational burden (TMB-high;≥ 10 variants/Mb). However, the …

A new method for multiancestry polygenic prediction improves performance across diverse populations

H Zhang, J Zhan, J Jin, J Zhang, W Lu, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) increasingly predict complex traits; however, suboptimal
performance in non-European populations raise concerns about clinical applications and …

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between blood metabolites and the gut microbiome

X Liu, X Tong, Y Zou, X Lin, H Zhao, L Tian, Z Jie… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The gut microbiome has been implicated in a variety of physiological states, but controversy
over causality remains unresolved. Here, we performed bidirectional Mendelian …

UK Biobank release and systematic evaluation of optimised polygenic risk scores for 53 diseases and quantitative traits

DJ Thompson, D Wells, S Selzam, I Peneva, R Moore… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
We present and assess the UK Biobank (UKB) Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Release, a set of
PRSs for 28 diseases and 25 quantitative traits being made available on the individuals in …

Obesity accelerates hair thinning by stem cell-centric converging mechanisms

H Morinaga, Y Mohri, M Grachtchouk, K Asakawa… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Obesity is a worldwide epidemic that predisposes individuals to many age-associated
diseases, but its exact effects on organ dysfunction are largely unknown. Hair follicles—mini …

[PDF][PDF] Inverting the model of genomics data sharing with the NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space

MC Schatz, AA Philippakis, E Afgan, E Banks, VJ Carey… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-
space (AnVIL; https://anvilproject. org) was developed to address a widespread community …