Genetic correlations of polygenic disease traits: from theory to practice

W Van Rheenen, WJ Peyrot, AJ Schork… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The genetic correlation describes the genetic relationship between two traits and can
contribute to a better understanding of the shared biological pathways and/or the causality …

Advancing the understanding of autism disease mechanisms through genetics

L de la Torre-Ubieta, H Won, JL Stein… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Progress in understanding the genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has
fueled remarkable advances in our understanding of its potential neurobiological …

Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG

P Turley, RK Walters, O Maghzian, A Okbay, JJ Lee… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We introduce multi-trait analysis of GWAS (MTAG), a method for joint analysis of summary
statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of different traits, possibly from …

[HTML][HTML] Human demographic history impacts genetic risk prediction across diverse populations

AR Martin, CR Gignoux, RK Walters, GL Wojcik… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
The vast majority of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are performed in
Europeans, and their transferability to other populations is dependent on many factors (eg …

Developing and evaluating polygenic risk prediction models for stratified disease prevention

N Chatterjee, J Shi, M García-Closas - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of genetics and its implications for human health is rapidly evolving in
accordance with recent events, such as discoveries of large numbers of disease …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores

BJ Vilhjálmsson, J Yang, HK Finucane, A Gusev… - The american journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores have shown great promise in predicting complex disease risk and will
become more accurate as training sample sizes increase. The standard approach for …

A hierarchical causal taxonomy of psychopathology across the life span.

BB Lahey, RF Krueger, PJ Rathouz… - Psychological …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

Genetics and genomics of psychiatric disease

DH Geschwind, J Flint - Science, 2015 - science.org
Large-scale genomic investigations have just begun to illuminate the molecular genetic
contributions to major psychiatric illnesses, ranging from small-effect-size common variants …

A statistical framework for cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association analysis

Y Hu, M Li, Q Lu, H Weng, J Wang, SM Zekavat, Z Yu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association analysis is a powerful approach to studying the genetic
architecture of complex traits. A key component of this approach is to build a model to impute …

Predicting polygenic risk of psychiatric disorders

AR Martin, MJ Daly, EB Robinson, SE Hyman… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Genetics provides two major opportunities for understanding human disease—as a
transformative line of etiological inquiry and as a biomarker for heritable diseases. In …