Pharmacogenomics: current status and future perspectives

M Pirmohamed - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Inter-individual variability in drug response, be it efficacy or safety, is common and likely to
become an increasing problem globally given the growing elderly population requiring …

Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

[HTML][HTML] FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Population isolates such as those in Finland benefit genetic research because deleterious
alleles are often concentrated on a small number of low-frequency variants (0.1%≤ minor …

FinnGen: Unique genetic insights from combining isolated population and national health register data

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Population isolates such as Finland provide benefits in genetic studies because the allelic
spectrum of damaging alleles in any gene is often concentrated on a small number of low …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-ancestry polygenic risk score improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease

AP Patel, M Wang, Y Ruan, S Koyama, SL Clarke… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of individuals at highest risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)—ideally before
onset—remains an important public health need. Prior studies have developed genome …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary …

N Shrine, AG Izquierdo, J Chen, R Packer, RJ Hall… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and
predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of …

Discovery of target genes and pathways at GWAS loci by pooled single-cell CRISPR screens

JA Morris, C Caragine, Z Daniloski, J Domingo, T Barry… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most variants associated with complex traits and diseases identified by genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) map to noncoding regions of the genome with unknown effects …

Inference of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with deep learning on raw spirograms identifies new genetic loci and improves risk models

J Cosentino, B Behsaz, B Alipanahi, ZR McCaw… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide,
is highly heritable. While COPD is clinically defined by applying thresholds to summary …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association and multi-trait analyses characterize the common genetic architecture of heart failure

MG Levin, NL Tsao, P Singhal, C Liu, HMT Vy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Heart failure is a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, the
contribution of common genetic variation to heart failure risk has not been fully elucidated …