African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda

L Pereira, L Mutesa, P Tindana, M Ramsay - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The deep evolutionary history of African populations, since the emergence of modern
humans more than 300,000 years ago, has resulted in high genetic diversity and …

The genetic overlap between mood disorders and cardiometabolic diseases: a systematic review of genome wide and candidate gene studies

AT Amare, KO Schubert, M Klingler-Hoffmann… - Translational …, 2017 - nature.com
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (meta-GWASs) and candidate gene
studies have identified genetic variants associated with cardiovascular diseases, metabolic …

Tractor uses local ancestry to enable the inclusion of admixed individuals in GWAS and to boost power

EG Atkinson, AX Maihofer, M Kanai, AR Martin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Admixed populations are routinely excluded from genomic studies due to concerns over
population structure. Here, we present a statistical framework and software package, Tractor …

Distribution and clinical impact of functional variants in 50,726 whole-exome sequences from the DiscovEHR study

FE Dewey, MF Murray, JD Overton, L Habegger… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Large-scale genetic studies of integrated health care populations, with
phenotypic data captured natively in the documentation of clinical care, have the potential to …

A large electronic-health-record-based genome-wide study of serum lipids

TJ Hoffmann, E Theusch, T Haldar, DK Ranatunga… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 94,674 ancestrally diverse Kaiser Permanente
members using 478,866 longitudinal electronic health record (EHR)-derived measurements …

Identifying causal variants at loci with multiple signals of association

F Hormozdiari, E Kostem, EY Kang… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Although genome-wide association studies have successfully identified thousands of risk
loci for complex traits, only a handful of the biologically causal variants, responsible for …

[HTML][HTML] Harmonizing genetic ancestry and self-identified race/ethnicity in genome-wide association studies

H Fang, Q Hui, J Lynch, J Honerlaw, TL Assimes… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Large-scale multi-ethnic cohorts offer unprecedented opportunities to elucidate the genetic
factors influencing complex traits related to health and disease among minority populations …

Risk loci for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis

MH Cho, MLN McDonald, X Zhou… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background The genetic risk factors for susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) are still largely unknown. Additional genetic variants are likely to be …

Trans-ethnic genome-wide association studies: advantages and challenges of mapping in diverse populations

YR Li, BJ Keating - Genome medicine, 2014 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are the method most often used by geneticists
to interrogate the human genome, and they provide a cost-effective way to identify the …

Relevance of multi-omics studies in cardiovascular diseases

P Leon-Mimila, J Wang… - Frontiers in cardiovascular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death around the world. Despite the
larger number of genes and loci identified, the precise mechanisms by which these genes …