Resistant hypertension: detection, evaluation, and management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

RM Carey, DA Calhoun, GL Bakris, RD Brook… - …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Resistant hypertension (RH) is defined as above-goal elevated blood pressure (BP) in a
patient despite the concurrent use of 3 antihypertensive drug classes, commonly including a …

Nitric oxide signalling in cardiovascular health and disease

C Farah, LYM Michel, JL Balligand - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
Nitric oxide (NO) signalling has pleiotropic roles in biology and a crucial function in
cardiovascular homeostasis. Tremendous knowledge has been accumulated on the …

Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes

R Malik, G Chauhan, M Traylor, M Sargurupremraj… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Stroke has multiple etiologies, but the underlying genes and pathways are largely unknown.
We conducted a multiancestry genome-wide-association meta-analysis in 521,612 …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank

LT Elliott, K Sharp, F Alfaro-Almagro, S Shi, KL Miller… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of brain structure and function is largely unknown. To investigate
this, we carried out genome-wide association studies of 3,144 functional and structural brain …

Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

E Evangelou, HR Warren, D Mosen-Ansorena… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
High blood pressure is a highly heritable and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular
disease. We report the largest genetic association study of blood pressure traits (systolic …

The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

G Hemani, J Zheng, B Elsworth, KH Wade… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Results from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) can be used to infer causal
relationships between phenotypes, using a strategy known as 2-sample Mendelian …

Type 2 diabetes genetic loci informed by multi-trait associations point to disease mechanisms and subtypes: a soft clustering analysis

MS Udler, J Kim, M von Grotthuss… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease for which (1) disease-
causing pathways are incompletely understood and (2) subclassification may improve …

Using an atlas of gene regulation across 44 human tissues to inform complex disease-and trait-associated variation

ER Gamazon, AV Segrè, M Van De Bunt, X Wen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We apply integrative approaches to expression quantitative loci (eQTLs) from 44 tissues
from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project and genome-wide association study data …

Improving the visualization, interpretation and analysis of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization via the Radial plot and Radial regression

J Bowden, W Spiller, F Del Greco M… - International journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Summary data furnishing a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study
are often visualized with the aid of a scatter plot, in which single-nucleotide polymorphism …

GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal effect of schizophrenia liability

JA Pasman, KJH Verweij, Z Gerring, S Stringer… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health
outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to …