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 …

Anorexia nervosa: aetiology, assessment, and treatment

S Zipfel, KE Giel, CM Bulik, P Hay, U Schmidt - The lancet psychiatry, 2015 - thelancet.com
Anorexia nervosa is an important cause of physical and psychosocial morbidity. Recent
years have brought advances in understanding of the underlying psychobiology that …

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 …

Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

M Lam, CY Chen, Z Li, AR Martin, J Bryois, X Ma… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with approximately 1% lifetime risk
globally. Large-scale schizophrenia genetic studies have reported primarily on European …

A molecular census of arcuate hypothalamus and median eminence cell types

JN Campbell, EZ Macosko, H Fenselau, TH Pers… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The hypothalamic arcuate–median eminence complex (Arc-ME) controls energy balance,
fertility and growth through molecularly distinct cell types, many of which remain unknown …

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 …

Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

X Jiang, PF O'Reilly, H Aschard, YH Hsu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that is associated with a range of human traits and
diseases. Previous GWAS of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations have identified four …

Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics

HK Finucane, B Bulik-Sullivan, A Gusev, G Trynka… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Recent work has demonstrated that some functional categories of the genome contribute
disproportionately to the heritability of complex diseases. Here we analyze a broad set of …

Topologically associating domain boundaries that are stable across diverse cell types are evolutionarily constrained and enriched for heritability

E McArthur, JA Capra - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Topologically associating domains (TADs) are fundamental units of three-dimensional (3D)
nuclear organization. The regions bordering TADs—TAD boundaries—contribute to the …