A global overview of pleiotropy and genetic architecture in complex traits

K Watanabe, S Stringer, O Frei, M Umićević Mirkov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
After a decade of genome-wide association studies (GWASs), fundamental questions in
human genetics, such as the extent of pleiotropy across the genome and variation in genetic …

The polygenic architecture of schizophrenia—rethinking pathogenesis and nosology

OB Smeland, O Frei, AM Dale… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with considerable morbidity and mortality.
Although the past two decades have seen limited improvement in the treatment of …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 93 risk loci and enables risk prediction equivalent to monogenic forms of venous thromboembolism

J Ghouse, V Tragante, G Ahlberg, SA Rand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We report a genome-wide association study of venous thromboembolism (VTE)
incorporating 81,190 cases and 1,419,671 controls sampled from six cohorts. We identify 93 …

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains

D Demontis, GB Walters, G Athanasiadis, R Walters… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder
with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta …

New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications

OA Andreassen, GFL Hindley, O Frei… - World …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric genetics has made substantial progress in the last decade, providing new
insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders, and paving the way for precision …

An integrated framework for local genetic correlation analysis

J Werme, S van der Sluis, D Posthuma, CA de Leeuw - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic correlation (rg) analysis is used to identify phenotypes that may have a shared
genetic basis. Traditionally, rg is studied globally, considering only the average of the …

[HTML][HTML] GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture

Nature genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Epilepsy is a highly heritable disorder affecting over 50 million people worldwide, of which
about one-third are resistant to current treatments. Here we report a multi-ancestry genome …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the genetic determinants of the brain with MOSTest

D van der Meer, O Frei, T Kaufmann, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Regional brain morphology has a complex genetic architecture, consisting of many common
polymorphisms with small individual effects. This has proven challenging for genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme polygenicity of complex traits is explained by negative selection

LJ O'Connor, AP Schoech, F Hormozdiari… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Complex traits and common diseases are extremely polygenic, their heritability spread
across thousands of loci. One possible explanation is that thousands of genes and loci have …