How to interpret a genome-wide association study

TA Pearson, TA Manolio - Jama, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Genome-wide association (GWA) studies use high-throughput genotyping technologies to
assay hundreds of thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and relate them to …

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 …

Genome-wide association studies: results from the first few years and potential implications for clinical medicine

JN Hirschhorn, ZKZ Gajdos - Annual review of medicine, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Most common diseases and quantitative traits are heritable: determined in part by genetic
variation within the population. The inheritance is typically polygenic in that combined effects …

How to use an article about genetic association: B: Are the results of the study valid?

J Attia, JPA Ioannidis, A Thakkinstian, M McEvoy… - Jama, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
In the first article of this series, we reviewed the basic genetics concepts necessary to
understand genetic association studies. In this second article, we enumerate the major …

Prioritizing GWAS results: a review of statistical methods and recommendations for their application

RM Cantor, K Lange, JS Sinsheimer - The American Journal of Human …, 2010 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have rapidly become a standard method for
disease gene discovery. A substantial number of recent GWAS indicate that for most …

Genome-wide association studies and beyond

JS Witte - Annual review of public health, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an important avenue for undertaking an
agnostic evaluation of the association between common genetic variants and risk of …

10 years of GWAS discovery: biology, function, and translation

PM Visscher, NR Wray, Q Zhang, P Sklar… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Application of the experimental design of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is now
10 years old (young), and here we review the remarkable range of discoveries it has …

[PDF][PDF] A short history of the genome-wide association study: where we were and where we are going

S Ikegawa - Genomics & informatics, 2012 - synapse.koreamed.org
Recent rapid advances in genetic research are ushering us into the genome sequence era,
where an individual's genome information is utilized for clinical practice. The most …

15 years of genome-wide association studies and no signs of slowing down

RJF Loos - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past 15 years, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have generated a
wealth of new information. Larger samples sizes, refined phenotypes and higher-resolution …

Genome-wide association studies, field synopses, and the development of the knowledge base on genetic variation and human diseases

MJ Khoury, L Bertram, P Boffetta… - American journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to a rapid increase in available data on
common genetic variants and phenotypes and numerous discoveries of new loci associated …