The genetics of human ageing

D Melzer, LC Pilling, L Ferrucci - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The past two centuries have witnessed an unprecedented rise in human life expectancy.
Sustaining longer lives with reduced periods of disability will require an understanding of the …

The genetics of epilepsy

P Perucca, M Bahlo, SF Berkovic - Annual review of genomics …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Epilepsy encompasses a group of heterogeneous brain diseases that affect more than 50
million people worldwide. Epilepsy may have discernible structural, infectious, metabolic …

Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology using mendelian randomisation (STROBE-MR): explanation and elaboration

VW Skrivankova, RC Richmond, BAR Woolf… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Mendelian randomisation (MR) studies allow a better understanding of the causal effects of
modifiable exposures on health outcomes, but the published evidence is often hampered by …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-wide association study of serum proteins reveals shared loci with common diseases

A Gudjonsson, V Gudmundsdottir, GT Axelsson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
With the growing number of genetic association studies, the genotype-phenotype atlas has
become increasingly more complex, yet the functional consequences of most disease …

Genetic interleukin 6 signaling deficiency attenuates cardiovascular risk in clonal hematopoiesis

AG Bick, JP Pirruccello, GK Griffin, N Gupta, S Gabriel… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) refers to clonal
expansion of hematopoietic stem cells attributable to acquired leukemic mutations in genes …

[HTML][HTML] Association of inflammation with depression and anxiety: evidence for symptom-specificity and potential causality from UK Biobank and NESDA cohorts

Y Milaneschi, N Kappelmann, Z Ye, F Lamers… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
We examined whether inflammation is uniformly associated with all depressive and anxiety
symptoms, and whether these associations are potentially causal. Data was from 147,478 …

Elevated C-reactive protein in patients with depression, independent of genetic, health, and psychosocial factors: results from the UK Biobank

MC Pitharouli, SP Hagenaars… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors investigated the pathways (genetic, environmental, lifestyle, medical)
leading to inflammation in major depressive disorder using C-reactive protein (CRP) …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic analysis of over half a million people characterises C-reactive protein loci

S Said, R Pazoki, V Karhunen, U Võsa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic low-grade inflammation is linked to a multitude of chronic diseases. We report the
largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) on C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of …

[HTML][HTML] C-reactive protein and cancer risk: a pan-cancer study of prospective cohort and Mendelian randomization analysis

M Zhu, Z Ma, X Zhang, D Hang, R Yin, J Feng, L Xu… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Although observational studies have reported associations between serum C-
reactive protein (CRP) concentration and risks of lung, breast, and colorectal cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic drug target validation using Mendelian randomisation

AF Schmidt, C Finan, M Gordillo-Marañón… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis is an important tool to elucidate the causal
relevance of environmental and biological risk factors for disease. However, causal …