Animal models of hypertension: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

LO Lerman, TW Kurtz, RM Touyz, DH Ellison… - …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the world, yet the precise cause of
elevated blood pressure often cannot be determined. Animal models have been useful for …

Deciphering the emerging complexities of molecular mechanisms at GWAS loci

ME Cannon, KL Mohlke - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified thousands of loci associated
with hundreds of complex diseases and traits, and progress is being made toward …

Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes

R Malik, G Chauhan, M Traylor, M Sargurupremraj… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Stroke has multiple etiologies, but the underlying genes and pathways are largely unknown.
We conducted a multiancestry genome-wide-association meta-analysis in 521,612 …

Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

BW Kunkle, B Grenier-Boley, R Sims, JC Bis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially
driven by genetics. To identify LOAD risk loci, we performed a large genome-wide …

Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

A Giri, JN Hellwege, JM Keaton, J Park, C Qiu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In this trans-ethnic multi-omic study, we reinterpret the genetic architecture of blood pressure
to identify genes, tissues, phenomes and medication contexts of blood pressure …

Mendelian randomization integrating GWAS and eQTL data reveals genetic determinants of complex and clinical traits

E Porcu, S Rüeger, K Lepik, FA Santoni… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of variants associated
with complex traits, but their biological interpretation often remains unclear. Most of these …

Identifying causal variants at loci with multiple signals of association

F Hormozdiari, E Kostem, EY Kang… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Although genome-wide association studies have successfully identified thousands of risk
loci for complex traits, only a handful of the biologically causal variants, responsible for …

Interrogation of human hematopoiesis at single-cell and single-variant resolution

JC Ulirsch, CA Lareau, EL Bao, LS Ludwig, MH Guo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Widespread linkage disequilibrium and incomplete annotation of cell-to-cell state variation
represent substantial challenges to elucidating mechanisms of trait-associated genetic …

Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation

N Kato, M Loh, F Takeuchi, N Verweij, X Wang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood
pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation levels at individual age-associated CpG sites can be indicative for life expectancy

Q Lin, CI Weidner, IG Costa, RE Marioni… - Aging (Albany …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA-methylation (DNAm) levels at age-associated CpG sites can be combined into
epigenetic aging signatures to estimate donor age. It has been demonstrated that the …