Animal models of hypertension: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

LO Lerman, TW Kurtz, RM Touyz, DH Ellison… - …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the world, yet the precise cause of
elevated blood pressure often cannot be determined. Animal models have been useful for …

A decade in psychiatric GWAS research

T Horwitz, K Lam, Y Chen, Y Xia, C Liu - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
After more than 10 years of accumulated efforts, genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
have led to many findings, most of which have been deposited into the GWAS Catalog …

Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

A Giri, JN Hellwege, JM Keaton, J Park, C Qiu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In this trans-ethnic multi-omic study, we reinterpret the genetic architecture of blood pressure
to identify genes, tissues, phenomes and medication contexts of blood pressure …

Generalizing polygenic risk scores from Europeans to Hispanics/Latinos

KE Grinde, Q Qi, TA Thornton, S Liu… - Genetic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are weighted sums of risk allele counts of single‐nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with a disease or trait. PRSs are typically constructed …

Genome-wide association studies of hypertension and several other cardiovascular diseases

Y Wang, JG Wang - Pulse, 2019 - karger.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have greatly expanded our understanding of the
genetic architecture of cardiovascular diseases in the past decade. They have revealed …

Over 1000 genetic loci influencing blood pressure with multiple systems and tissues implicated

CP Cabrera, FL Ng, HL Nicholls, A Gupta… - Human Molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
High blood pressure (BP) remains the major heritable and modifiable risk factor for
cardiovascular disease. Persistent high BP, or hypertension, is a complex trait with both …

Prioritizing natural-selection signals from the deep-sequencing genomic data suggests multi-variant adaptation in Tibetan highlanders

L Deng, C Zhang, K Yuan, Y Gao, Y Pan… - National Science …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Human genetic adaptation to high altitudes (> 2500 m) has been extensively studied over
the last few years, but few functional adaptive genetic variants have been identified, largely …

Cardiometabolic polygenic risk scores and osteoarthritis outcomes: a Mendelian randomization study using data from the Malmö Diet and Cancer Study and the UK …

G Hindy, KE Åkesson, O Melander… - Arthritis & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To investigate the causal role of cardiometabolic risk factors in osteoarthritis (OA)
using associated genetic variants. Methods We studied 27,691 adults from the Malmö Diet …

Genetic basis of motoric cognitive risk syndrome in the Health and Retirement Study

S Sathyan, T Wang, E Ayers, J Verghese - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To examine polygenic inheritance of motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), a
predementia syndrome characterized by the presence of subjective cognitive complaints …

A genome‐wide association and replication study of blood pressure in Ugandan early adolescents

SA Lule, AJ Mentzer, B Namara… - Molecular genetics & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Genetic association studies of blood pressure (BP) have mostly been
conducted in non‐African populations. Using the Entebbe Mother and Baby Study (EMaBS) …