Advancing the use of genome-wide association studies for drug repurposing

WR Reay, MJ Cairns - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed important biological insights into
complex diseases, which are broadly expected to lead to the identification of new drug …

The genetics of multiple sclerosis: from 0 to 200 in 50 years

SE Baranzini, JR Oksenberg - Trends in genetics, 2017 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common autoimmune disease that targets myelin in the central
nervous system (CNS). Multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) over the past 10 …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study

C Cao, J Wang, D Kwok, F Cui, Z Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The development of transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) has enabled
researchers to better identify and interpret causal genes in many diseases. However, there …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis

K Ishigaki, S Sakaue, C Terao, Y Luo, K Sonehara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a highly heritable complex disease with unknown etiology. Multi-
ancestry genetic research of RA promises to improve power to detect genetic signals, fine …

Genetic insights into biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing

KS Ruth, FR Day, J Hussain, A Martínez-Marchal… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Reproductive longevity is essential for fertility and influences healthy ageing in women,, but
insights into its underlying biological mechanisms and treatments to preserve it are limited …

A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder

EC Johnson, D Demontis, TE Thorgeirsson… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Variation in liability to cannabis use disorder has a strong genetic component
(estimated twin and family heritability about 50–70%) and is associated with negative …

Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

M Liu, Y Jiang, R Wedow, Y Li, DM Brazel, F Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tobacco and alcohol use are leading causes of mortality that influence risk for many
complex diseases and disorders. They are heritable, and etiologically related, behaviors that …

Functional mapping and annotation of genetic associations with FUMA

K Watanabe, E Taskesen, A Van Bochoven… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A main challenge in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is to pinpoint possible causal
variants. Results from GWAS typically do not directly translate into causal variants because …

Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms

SE Jones, JM Lane, AR Wood, VT van Hees… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Being a morning person is a behavioural indicator of a person's underlying circadian rhythm.
Using genome-wide data from 697,828 UK Biobank and 23andMe participants we increase …