Association analyses based on false discovery rate implicate new loci for coronary artery disease

CP Nelson, A Goel, AS Butterworth, S Kanoni… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in coronary artery disease (CAD) had identified
66 loci at'genome-wide significance'(P< 5× 10− 8) at the time of this analysis, but a much …

Identification of 153 new loci associated with heel bone mineral density and functional involvement of GPC6 in osteoporosis

JP Kemp, JA Morris, C Medina-Gomez, V Forgetta… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is a common disease diagnosed primarily by measurement of bone mineral
density (BMD). We undertook a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 142,487 …

Dissecting human population variation in single-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2

Y Aquino, A Bisiaux, Z Li, M O'Neill, J Mendoza-Revilla… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Humans display substantial interindividual clinical variability after SARS-CoV-2 infection,–,
the genetic and immunological basis of which has begun to be deciphered. However, the …

Genome-wide analysis of a model-derived binge eating disorder phenotype identifies risk loci and implicates iron metabolism

D Burstein, TC Griffen, K Therrien, J Bendl… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder, yet its genetic architecture
remains largely unknown. Studying BED is challenging because it is often comorbid with …

The genetic architecture of appendicular lean mass characterized by association analysis in the UK Biobank study

YF Pei, YZ Liu, XL Yang, H Zhang, GJ Feng… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Appendicular lean mass (ALM) is a heritable trait associated with loss of lean muscle mass
and strength, or sarcopenia, but its genetic determinants are largely unknown. Here we …

An empirical investigation into the impact of winner's curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization

T Jiang, D Gill, AS Butterworth… - International journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Genetic associations for variants identified through genome-wide association
studies (GWASs) tend to be overestimated in the original discovery data set as, if the …

Symptom-level modelling unravels the shared genetic architecture of anxiety and depression

JG Thorp, AI Campos, AD Grotzinger… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Depression and anxiety are highly prevalent and comorbid psychiatric traits that cause
considerable burden worldwide. Here we use factor analysis and genomic structural …

Synaptic and transcriptionally downregulated genes are associated with cortical thickness differences in autism

R Romero-Garcia, V Warrier, ET Bullmore… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Differences in cortical morphology—in particular, cortical volume, thickness and surface
area—have been reported in individuals with autism. However, it is unclear what aspects of …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition

V Warrier, KL Grasby, F Uzefovsky, R Toro… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy using the 'Reading the
Mind in the Eyes' Test (Eyes Test) in 88,056 research volunteers of European Ancestry …

Association analyses identify 31 new risk loci for colorectal cancer susceptibility

PJ Law, M Timofeeva, C Fernandez-Rozadilla… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and has a
strong heritable basis. We report a genome-wide association analysis of 34,627 CRC cases …