Environmental factors in declining human fertility

NE Skakkebæk, R Lindahl-Jacobsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
A severe decline in child births has occurred over the past half century, which will lead to
considerable population declines, particularly in industrialized regions. A crucial question is …

[PDF][PDF] Endometriosis: Etiology, pathobiology, and therapeutic prospects

PTK Saunders, AW Horne - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with infertility that causes chronic pain in
many, but not all, women. It is defined by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the …

The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions

N Rahmioglu, S Mortlock, M Ghiasi, PL Møller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 …

Gut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent

L Grieneisen, M Dasari, TJ Gould, JR Björk, JC Grenier… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Relatives have more similar gut microbiomes than nonrelatives, but the degree to which this
similarity results from shared genotypes versus shared environments has been …

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019

A Buniello, JAL MacArthur, M Cerezo… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The GWAS Catalog delivers a high-quality curated collection of all published genome-wide
association studies enabling investigations to identify causal variants, understand disease …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

PH Lee, V Anttila, H Won, YCA Feng, J Rosenthal… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting
substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these …

Cancer‐associated fibroblast‐mediated cellular crosstalk supports hepatocellular carcinoma progression

M Song, J He, QZ Pan, J Yang, J Zhao, YJ Zhang… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are key players in multicellular,
stromal‐dependent alterations leading to HCC pathogenesis. However, the intricate …

Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

D Demontis, RK Walters, J Martin, M Mattheisen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable childhood behavioral
disorder affecting 5% of children and 2.5% of adults. Common genetic variants contribute …

Genomic structural equation modelling provides insights into the multivariate genetic architecture of complex traits

AD Grotzinger, M Rhemtulla, R de Vlaming… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic correlations estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) reveal
pervasive pleiotropy across a wide variety of phenotypes. We introduce genomic structural …

The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes

A Kong, G Thorleifsson, ML Frigge, BJ Vilhjalmsson… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Sequence variants in the parental genomes that are not transmitted to a child (the proband)
are often ignored in genetic studies. Here we show that nontransmitted alleles can affect a …