FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Population isolates such as those in Finland benefit genetic research because deleterious
alleles are often concentrated on a small number of low-frequency variants (0.1%≤ minor …

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, W Zhang, MCY Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls …

FinnGen: Unique genetic insights from combining isolated population and national health register data

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Population isolates such as Finland provide benefits in genetic studies because the allelic
spectrum of damaging alleles in any gene is often concentrated on a small number of low …

Causal effects on complex traits are similar for common variants across segments of different continental ancestries within admixed individuals

K Hou, Y Ding, Z Xu, Y Wu, A Bhattacharya, R Mester… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals of admixed ancestries (for example, African Americans) inherit a mosaic of
ancestry segments (local ancestry) originating from multiple continental ancestral …

Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use

GRB Saunders, X Wang, F Chen, SK Jang, M Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of
worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury …

Genetic architecture of the inflammatory bowel diseases across East Asian and European ancestries

Z Liu, R Liu, H Gao, S Jung, X Gao, R Sun, X Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are chronic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract with
the following two subtypes: Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). To date, most …

A genome-wide mutational constraint map quantified from variation in 76,156 human genomes

S Chen, LC Francioli, JK Goodrich, RL Collins, M Kanai… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders, but …

A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes

S Chen, LC Francioli, JK Goodrich, RL Collins, M Kanai… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has
been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders,,–, but …

Leveraging polygenic enrichments of gene features to predict genes underlying complex traits and diseases

EM Weeks, JC Ulirsch, NY Cheng, BL Trippe, RS Fine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are a valuable tool for understanding the
biology of complex human traits and diseases, but associated variants rarely point directly to …

[PDF][PDF] Meta-analysis fine-mapping is often miscalibrated at single-variant resolution

M Kanai, R Elzur, W Zhou, KHH Wu, H Rasheed… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Meta-analysis is pervasively used to combine multiple genome-wide association studies
(GWASs). Fine-mapping of meta-analysis studies is typically performed as in a single-cohort …