Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Brainstorm Consortium, V Anttila, B Bulik-Sullivan… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Brain disorders may exhibit shared symptoms and substantial
epidemiological comorbidity, inciting debate about their etiologic overlap. However, detailed …

Mechanisms of the Development of Allergy (MeDALL): Introducing novel concepts in allergy phenotypes

JM Anto, J Bousquet, M Akdis, C Auffray, T Keil… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Asthma, rhinitis, and eczema are complex diseases with multiple genetic and environmental
factors interlinked through IgE-associated and non–IgE-associated mechanisms …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects

H Xue, X Shen, W Pan - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
With the increasing availability of large-scale GWAS summary data on various complex traits
and diseases, there have been tremendous interests in applications of Mendelian …

Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

G Davies, M Lam, SE Harris, JW Trampush… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
General cognitive function is a prominent and relatively stable human trait that is associated
with many important life outcomes. We combine cognitive and genetic data from the …

LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and …

J Zheng, AM Erzurumluoglu, BL Elsworth… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation LD score regression is a reliable and efficient method of using genome-wide
association study (GWAS) summary-level results data to estimate the SNP heritability of …

An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

B Bulik-Sullivan, HK Finucane, V Anttila, A Gusev… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying genetic correlations between complex traits and diseases can provide useful
etiological insights and help prioritize likely causal relationships. The major challenges …

Association between telomere length and risk of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases: a Mendelian randomization study

PC Haycock, S Burgess, A Nounu, J Zheng… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length
and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility …

The Generation R Study: design and cohort update 2017

MN Kooijman, CJ Kruithof, CM van Duijn… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal
life until adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated heterozygous knockout of the autism gene CHD8 and characterization of its transcriptional networks in cerebral organoids derived from iPS …

P Wang, R Mokhtari, E Pedrosa, M Kirschenbaum… - Molecular autism, 2017 - Springer
Background CHD8 (chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 8), which codes for a
member of the CHD family of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling factors, is one of the …