Pulmonary function measures reflect respiratory health and are used in the diagnosis of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We tested genome-wide association with forced …

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has a complex etiology that encompasses both
genetic and environmental factors. However, to date, despite the identification of several …

3. Risch, N., Burchard, E., Ziv, E., and Tang, H.(2002). Categorization of humans in
biomedical research: Genes, race and disease. Genome Biol. 3, comment2007. 1 …

Background Human height is a classical example of a polygenic quantitative trait. Recent
large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200 height …

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the
developed world despite advances in cardiac care over the last few decades. Although most …

Background: Human height is a classical example of a polygenic quantitative trait. Recent
large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200 height …

The aim of personality psychology is to explain the causes and consequences of variation in
behavioral traits. The three papers collected in this dissertation attack this problem using a …

In this study we estimated the distribution of genetic variance for production and fertility traits
across chromosomes, and used this information to calculate the effective number of genes …

Genome-wide association mapping has become widely popular in recent years as a method
to dissect the genetic architecture of traits. With the $1,000 dollar genome on the horizon …