Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

Advances in data preprocessing for biomedical data fusion: An overview of the methods, challenges, and prospects

S Wang, ME Celebi, YD Zhang, X Yu, S Lu, X Yao… - Information …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the proliferation of biomedical imaging modalities, such as Photoacoustic
Tomography, Computed Tomography (CT), Optical Microscopy and Tomography, etc …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

T Singh, T Poterba, D Curtis, H Akil, M Al Eissa… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes

DJ Weiner, A Nadig, KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, BM Neale… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Both common and rare genetic variants influence complex traits and common diseases.
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 93 risk loci and enables risk prediction equivalent to monogenic forms of venous thromboembolism

J Ghouse, V Tragante, G Ahlberg, SA Rand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We report a genome-wide association study of venous thromboembolism (VTE)
incorporating 81,190 cases and 1,419,671 controls sampled from six cohorts. We identify 93 …

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 …

Biobank-scale inference of ancestral recombination graphs enables genealogical analysis of complex traits

BC Zhang, A Biddanda, ÁF Gunnarsson, F Cooper… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide genealogies compactly represent the evolutionary history of a set of genomes
and inferring them from genetic data has the potential to facilitate a wide range of analyses …

[HTML][HTML] An expanded view of complex traits: from polygenic to omnigenic

EA Boyle, YI Li, JK Pritchard - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
A central goal of genetics is to understand the links between genetic variation and disease.
Intuitively, one might expect disease-causing variants to cluster into key pathways that drive …

Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation

C Roselli, MD Chaffin, LC Weng, S Aeschbacher… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide and has a complex
heritability. We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies …

A resource-efficient tool for mixed model association analysis of large-scale data

L Jiang, Z Zheng, T Qi, KE Kemper, NR Wray… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been widely used as an experimental
design to detect associations between genetic variants and a phenotype. Two major …