15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

Challenges and opportunities for developing more generalizable polygenic risk scores

Y Wang, K Tsuo, M Kanai, BM Neale… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate an individual's genetic likelihood of complex traits and
diseases by aggregating information across multiple genetic variants identified from genome …

Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects

LJ Howe, MG Nivard, TT Morris, AF Hansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture
effects of inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Mating Order Establishes Male Size Advantage in the Polygynandrous Millipede Centrobolus inscriptus Attems, 1928

M Cooper - New Visions in Biological Science, 2022 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT A forest species of millipede belonging to the Order Spirobolida found along the
eastern coast of southern Africa were tested for size assortative mating. The objectives …

[HTML][HTML] Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses

B Brumpton, E Sanderson, K Heilbron… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Estimates from Mendelian randomization studies of unrelated individuals can be biased due
to uncontrolled confounding from familial effects. Here we describe methods for within-family …

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

JJ Lee, R Wedow, A Okbay, E Kong, O Maghzian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a
sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome …

Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults

J Xu, N Liu, E Polemiti, L Garcia-Mondragon, J Tang… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Urban-living individuals are exposed to many environmental factors that may combine and
interact to influence mental health. While individual factors of an urban environment have …

The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes

A Kong, G Thorleifsson, ML Frigge, BJ Vilhjalmsson… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Sequence variants in the parental genomes that are not transmitted to a child (the proband)
are often ignored in genetic studies. Here we show that nontransmitted alleles can affect a …

Improved polygenic prediction by Bayesian multiple regression on summary statistics

LR Lloyd-Jones, J Zeng, J Sidorenko, L Yengo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of an individual's phenotype from their DNA sequence is one of the great
promises of genomics and precision medicine. We extend a powerful individual-level data …