Genome-wide association study identifies genetic risk factors for spastic cerebral palsy

AT Hale, O Akinnusotu, J He, J Wang, N Hibshman… - …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
… in the UK Biobank and FinnGen, we perform the first genome-wide association study (GWAS…
(de novo or inherited) with large effect sizes, as well as identifying copy number variations …

[HTML][HTML] Major depressive disorder: existing hypotheses about pathophysiological mechanisms and new genetic findings

M Kamran, F Bibi, A ur. Rehman, DW Morris - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
studies support the possible association between thyroid … cases and 176,486 controls from
UK Biobank, but the mood … of material deprivation, where the effect of depression-based PRS …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of age on genetic risk for common diseases

X Jiang, C Holmes, G McVean - PLoS genetics, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… , skin cancer, atherosclerotic heart disease, hypothyroidism and calculus of gallbladder, …
UK Biobank, a prospective study of 500,000 people, we show that there is a tendency for genetic

Higher polygenic risk scores for anxiety disorders are associated with reduced area in the anterior cingulate gyrus

D Fujikane, K Ohi, K Nemoto, Y Horibe… - Journal of Affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
… -wide association study of anxiety disorders from the UK biobank (… in 34 bilateral brain regions
extracted using FreeSurfer. A … In this study, we investigated the effects of polygenic risk for …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for neuroticism in 449,484 individuals identifies novel genetic loci and pathways

M Nagel, PR Jansen, S Stringer, K Watanabe… - … genetics, 2018 - nature.com
… The meta-analysis of neuroticism comprised data from the UK Biobank study (UKB, full … Full
size image To investigate whether these genetic correlations reflected directional effects, we …

[HTML][HTML] Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

L Eliot, A Ahmed, H Khan, J Patel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
regional cortical and subcortical volumes in males. But when structural and lateralization
differences are present independent of size… are largely based on brain size, and perform poorly …

Biological and clinical insights from genetics of insomnia symptoms

JM Lane, S Jones, HS Dashti, AR Wood, K Aragam… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
UK Biobank (n=453,379) and confirm their impact on self-reported insomnia symptoms in the
HUNT study (… ), physician diagnosed insomnia in Partners Biobank (n=2,217 cases, 14,240 …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the relationship between depression and breast cancer: observational and genetic analyses

X Wu, W Zhang, X Zhao, L Zhang, M Xu, Y Hao, J Xiao… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
… of the overall study design. We first used longitudinal follow-up data from the UK Biobank to
… To reduce biased estimate due to pleiotropic effects of genetic instruments, we adopted two …

Genomics and CSF analyses implicate thyroid hormone in hippocampal sclerosis of aging

PT Nelson, Y Katsumata, K Nho, SC Artiushin… - Acta …, 2016 - Springer
… We hypothesized that SNPs in the ABCC9 genomic region have an impact on gene … by
brain MRIs from living subjects. This study evaluated differences in brain volumes comparing …

Sex differences in the associations of genetic, sociodemographic and cardiovascular risk factors with depression in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

E Théberge, J Dennis - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
… of common genetic variants with small effect sizes contribute … The UK Biobank (UKB) is a
prospective health study of over … diabetes, hypothyroidism and/or a previous IHD diagnosis, …