Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A quantitative nosology based on consensus of evidence

R Kotov, RF Krueger, D Watson… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Traditional diagnostic systems went beyond empirical evidence on the structure of mental
health. Consequently, these diagnoses do not depict psychopathology accurately, and their …

Genomic atlas of the plasma metabolome prioritizes metabolites implicated in human diseases

Y Chen, T Lu, U Pettersson-Kymmer, ID Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic processes can influence disease risk and provide therapeutic targets. By
conducting genome-wide association studies of 1,091 blood metabolites and 309 metabolite …

Gene–environment correlations across geographic regions affect genome-wide association studies

A Abdellaoui, CV Dolan, KJH Verweij, MG Nivard - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Gene–environment correlations affect associations between genetic variants and complex
traits in genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Here we showed in up to 43,516 British …

Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes

DJ Weiner, A Nadig, KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, BM Neale… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Both common and rare genetic variants influence complex traits and common diseases.
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …

Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in> 1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions

DF Levey, MB Stein, FR Wendt, GA Pathak… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder is the most common neuropsychiatric disorder, affecting 11% of
veterans. Here we report results of a large meta-analysis of depression using data from the …

Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses

T Schoeler, D Speed, E Porcu, N Pirastu… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
While volunteer-based studies such as the UK Biobank have become the cornerstone of
genetic epidemiology, the participating individuals are rarely representative of their target …

Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction

R Karlsson Linnér, TT Mallard, PB Barr… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, such as substance use, antisocial
behavior and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, are collectively referred to as …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications

DF Levey, M Galimberti, JD Deak, FR Wendt… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
As recreational use of cannabis is being decriminalized in many places and medical use
widely sanctioned, there are growing concerns about increases in cannabis use disorder …

Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates

R Border, G Athanasiadis, A Buil, AJ Schork, N Cai… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The observation of genetic correlations between disparate human traits has been
interpreted as evidence of widespread pleiotropy. Here, we introduce cross-trait assortative …