Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

[HTML][HTML] The human connectome project: a retrospective

JS Elam, MF Glasser, MP Harms, SN Sotiropoulos… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Human Connectome Project (HCP) was launched in 2010 as an ambitious
effort to accelerate advances in human neuroimaging, particularly for measures of brain …

[HTML][HTML] Sample size, power and effect size revisited: simplified and practical approaches in pre-clinical, clinical and laboratory studies

CC Serdar, M Cihan, D Yücel, MA Serdar - Biochemia medica, 2021 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Calculating the sample size in scientific studies is one of the critical issues as
regards the scientific contribution of the study. The sample size critically affects the …

Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

JE Savage, PR Jansen, S Stringer, K Watanabe… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Intelligence is highly heritable and a major determinant of human health and well-being.
Recent genome-wide meta-analyses have identified 24 genomic loci linked to variation in …

A resource-efficient tool for mixed model association analysis of large-scale data

L Jiang, Z Zheng, T Qi, KE Kemper, NR Wray… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been widely used as an experimental
design to detect associations between genetic variants and a phenotype. Two major …

Evidence for causal effects of lifetime smoking on risk for depression and schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomisation study

RE Wootton, RC Richmond, BG Stuijfzand… - Psychological …, 2020 - cambridge.org
BackgroundSmoking prevalence is higher amongst individuals with schizophrenia and
depression compared with the general population. Mendelian randomisation (MR) can …

Association analyses identify 38 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease and highlight shared genetic risk across populations

JZ Liu, S Van Sommeren, H Huang, SC Ng, R Alberts… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD). Here we report the first trans-ancestry association study of IBD, with genome-wide or …

Identification of 15 genetic loci associated with risk of major depression in individuals of European descent

CL Hyde, MW Nagle, C Tian, X Chen, SA Paciga… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite strong evidence supporting the heritability of major depressive disorder (MDD),
previous genome-wide studies were unable to identify risk loci among individuals of …

Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia

G Genovese, M Fromer, EA Stahl, DM Ruderfer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
By analyzing the exomes of 12,332 unrelated Swedish individuals, including 4,877
individuals affected with schizophrenia, in ways informed by exome sequences from 45,376 …

TM6SF2 rs58542926 influences hepatic fibrosis progression in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

YL Liu, HL Reeves, AD Burt, D Tiniakos… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasingly common condition, strongly
associated with the metabolic syndrome, that can lead to progressive hepatic fibrosis …