[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

CM Lewis, E Vassos - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies have shown unequivocally that common complex
disorders have a polygenic genetic architecture and have enabled researchers to identify …

[HTML][HTML] Role of oxidative stress in diabetic cardiomyopathy

B De Geest, M Mishra - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Type 2 diabetes is a redox disease. Oxidative stress and chronic inflammation induce a
switch of metabolic homeostatic set points, leading to glucose intolerance. Several diabetes …

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, W Zhang, MCY Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls …

An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank

SM Smith, G Douaud, W Chen, T Hanayik… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a major prospective epidemiological study, including multimodal brain
imaging, genetics and ongoing health outcomes. Previously, we published genome-wide …

Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis

M Vujkovic, JM Keaton, JA Lynch, DR Miller, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated type 2 diabetes (T2D) genetic susceptibility via multi-ancestry meta-analysis
of 228,499 cases and 1,178,783 controls in the Million Veteran Program (MVP), DIAMANTE …

[HTML][HTML] Principal component analyses (PCA)-based findings in population genetic studies are highly biased and must be reevaluated

E Elhaik - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a multivariate analysis that reduces the
complexity of datasets while preserving data covariance. The outcome can be visualized on …

The genetic architecture of depression in individuals of East Asian ancestry: a genome-wide association study

O Giannakopoulou, K Lin, X Meng, MH Su… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Most previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of depression have
used data from individuals of European descent. This limits the understanding of the …

Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals

CN Spracklen, M Horikoshi, YJ Kim, K Lin, F Bragg… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 240
loci that are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D),; however, most of these loci have been …

[HTML][HTML] The ChinaMAP analytics of deep whole genome sequences in 10,588 individuals

Y Cao, L Li, M Xu, Z Feng, X Sun, J Lu, Y Xu, P Du… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Metabolic diseases are the most common and rapidly growing health issues worldwide. The
massive population-based human genetics is crucial for the precise prevention and …

[HTML][HTML] Unique roles of rare variants in the genetics of complex diseases in humans

Y Momozawa, K Mizukami - Journal of human genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified> 10,000 genetic variants associated with
various phenotypes and diseases. Although the majority are common variants, rare variants …