High trans-ethnic replicability of GWAS results implies common causal variants

UM Marigorta, A Navarro - PLoS genetics, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have detected many disease associations.
However, the reported variants tend to explain small fractions of risk, and there are doubts …

Genome‐wide association studies and the genetic dissection of complex traits

P Sebastiani, N Timofeev, DA Dworkis… - American journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of affordable high throughput technology for parallel genotyping has opened
the field of genetics to genome‐wide association studies (GWAS), and in the last few years …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies with overlapping subjects

DY Lin, PF Sullivan - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2009 - cell.com
Data from multiple genome-wide association studies are often analyzed together for the
purposes of combining information from several studies of the same disease or comparing …

Genome-wide gene and pathway analysis

L Luo, G Peng, Y Zhu, H Dong, CI Amos… - European Journal of …, 2010 - nature.com
Current GWAS have primarily focused on testing association of single SNPs. To only test for
association of single SNPs has limited utility and is insufficient to dissect the complex …

Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

K Ishigaki, M Akiyama, M Kanai, A Takahashi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The overwhelming majority of participants in current genetic studies are of European
ancestry. To elucidate disease biology in the East Asian population, we conducted a …

Genome-wide association studies: a primer

A Corvin, N Craddock, PF Sullivan - Psychological medicine, 2010 - cambridge.org
There have been nearly 400 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) published since
2005. The GWAS approach has been exceptionally successful in identifying common …

Correcting “winner's curse” in odds ratios from genomewide association findings for major complex human diseases

H Zhong, RL Prentice - Genetic Epidemiology: The Official …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) provide an important approach for identifying
common genetic variants that predispose to human disease. However, odds ratio (OR) …

Replication validity of genetic association studies

J Ioannidis, EE Ntzani, TA Trikalinos… - Nature …, 2001 - nature.com
The rapid growth of human genetics creates countless opportunities for studies of disease
association. Given the number of potentially identifiable genetic markers and the multitude of …

Towards a complete resolution of the genetic architecture of disease

AB Singleton, J Hardy, BJ Traynor, H Houlden - Trends in genetics, 2010 - cell.com
After years of linear gains in the genetic dissection of human disease we are now in a period
of exponential discovery. This is particularly apparent for complex disease. Genome-wide …

Family-based designs for genome-wide association studies

J Ott, Y Kamatani, M Lathrop - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Association mapping has successfully identified common SNPs associated with many
diseases. However, the inability of this class of variation to account for most of the supposed …