[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use

GRB Saunders, X Wang, F Chen, SK Jang, M Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of
worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing

F Chen, X Wang, SK Jang, BC Quach… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) so far focus on European ancestry
and lack diversity. To overcome this limitation, we aggregated genome-wide association …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of smoking trajectory and meta-analysis of smoking status in 842,000 individuals

K Xu, B Li, KA McGinnis, R Vickers-Smith, C Dao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Here we report a large genome-wide association study (GWAS) for longitudinal smoking
phenotypes in 286,118 individuals from the Million Veteran Program (MVP) where we …

Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers

R Whelan, R Watts, CA Orr, RR Althoff, E Artiges… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
A comprehensive account of the causes of alcohol misuse must accommodate individual
differences in biology, psychology and environment, and must disentangle cause and effect …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

H Zhou, RL Kember, JD Deak, H Xu, S Toikumo… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Problematic alcohol use (PAU), a trait that combines alcohol use disorder and alcohol-
related problems assessed with a questionnaire, is a leading cause of death and morbidity …

Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

GL Wojcik, M Graff, KK Nishimura, R Tao, J Haessler… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have laid the foundation for investigations into
the biology of complex traits, drug development and clinical guidelines. However, the …

Exome chip meta-analysis fine maps causal variants and elucidates the genetic architecture of rare coding variants in smoking and alcohol use

DM Brazel, Y Jiang, JM Hughey, V Turcot, X Zhan… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Smoking and alcohol use have been associated with common genetic variants
in multiple loci. Rare variants within these loci hold promise in the identification of biological …

A variant associated with nicotine dependence, lung cancer and peripheral arterial disease

TE Thorgeirsson, F Geller, P Sulem, T Rafnar, A Wiste… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death, causing about 5 million premature deaths
worldwide each year,. Evidence for genetic influence on smoking behaviour and nicotine …

A genomewide association study of nicotine and alcohol dependence in Australian and Dutch populations

PA Lind, S Macgregor, JM Vink… - Twin Research and …, 2010 - cambridge.org
Persistent tobacco use and excessive alcohol consumption are major public health
concerns worldwide. Both alcohol and nicotine dependence (AD, ND) are genetically …