Discovery and refinement of genetic loci associated with cardiometabolic risk using dense imputation maps

V Iotchkova, J Huang, JA Morris, D Jain, C Barbieri… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Large-scale whole-genome sequence data sets offer novel opportunities to identify genetic
variation underlying human traits. Here we apply genotype imputation based on whole …

Whole genome sequencing and imputation in isolated populations identify genetic associations with medically-relevant complex traits

L Southam, A Gilly, D Süveges, AE Farmaki… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Next-generation association studies can be empowered by sequence-based imputation and
by studying founder populations. Here we report∼ 9.5 million variants from whole-genome …

The impact of low-frequency and rare variants on lipid levels

I Surakka, M Horikoshi, R Mägi, AP Sarin, A Mahajan… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Using a genome-wide screen of 9.6 million genetic variants achieved through 1000
Genomes Project imputation in 62,166 samples, we identify association to lipid traits in 93 …

Whole-exome imputation within UK Biobank powers rare coding variant association and fine-mapping analyses

AR Barton, MA Sherman, RE Mukamel, PR Loh - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Exome association studies to date have generally been underpowered to systematically
evaluate the phenotypic impact of very rare coding variants. We leveraged extensive …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating common and rare genetic variation in diverse human populations

International HapMap 3 Consortium - Nature, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite great progress in identifying genetic variants that influence human disease, most
inherited risk remains unexplained. A more complete understanding requires genome-wide …

Imputing phenotypes for genome-wide association studies

F Hormozdiari, EY Kang, M Bilow, E Ben-David… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been successful in detecting variants
correlated with phenotypes of clinical interest. However, the power to detect these variants …

Fast and accurate imputation of summary statistics enhances evidence of functional enrichment

B Pasaniuc, N Zaitlen, H Shi, G Bhatia, A Gusev… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Imputation using external reference panels (eg 1000 Genomes) is a widely used
approach for increasing power in genome-wide association studies and meta-analysis …

The metabochip, a custom genotyping array for genetic studies of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric traits

BF Voight, HM Kang, J Ding, CD Palmer, C Sidore… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of loci for type 2 diabetes,
coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction, as well as for related traits such as body …

A comprehensive survey of genetic variation in 20,691 subjects from four large cohorts

S Lindström, S Loomis, C Turman, H Huang, J Huang… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The Nurses' Health Study (NHS), Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII), Health Professionals
Follow Up Study (HPFS) and the Physicians Health Study (PHS) have collected detailed …

Discovery and fine-mapping of glycaemic and obesity-related trait loci using high-density imputation

M Horikoshi, R Mӓgi, M van de Bunt, I Surakka… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Reference panels from the 1000 Genomes (1000G) Project Consortium provide near
complete coverage of common and low-frequency genetic variation with minor allele …