Genetic correlations of polygenic disease traits: from theory to practice
W Van Rheenen, WJ Peyrot, AJ Schork… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The genetic correlation describes the genetic relationship between two traits and can
contribute to a better understanding of the shared biological pathways and/or the causality …
contribute to a better understanding of the shared biological pathways and/or the causality …
Developing and evaluating polygenic risk prediction models for stratified disease prevention
Abstract Knowledge of genetics and its implications for human health is rapidly evolving in
accordance with recent events, such as discoveries of large numbers of disease …
accordance with recent events, such as discoveries of large numbers of disease …
[HTML][HTML] Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding
Missing heritability in genome-wide association studies defines a major problem in genetic
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …
[HTML][HTML] A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci
N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …
Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes
Both common and rare genetic variants influence complex traits and common diseases.
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …
Causal effects on complex traits are similar for common variants across segments of different continental ancestries within admixed individuals
Individuals of admixed ancestries (for example, African Americans) inherit a mosaic of
ancestry segments (local ancestry) originating from multiple continental ancestral …
ancestry segments (local ancestry) originating from multiple continental ancestral …
[HTML][HTML] Fine-mapping from summary data with the “Sum of Single Effects” model
In recent work, Wang et al introduced the “Sum of Single Effects”(SuSiE) model, and showed
that it provides a simple and efficient approach to fine-mapping genetic variants from …
that it provides a simple and efficient approach to fine-mapping genetic variants from …
Multiple sclerosis genomic map implicates peripheral immune cells and microglia in susceptibility
International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium*†… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and degenerative disease of the
central nervous system (CNS) that often presents in young adults. Over the past decade …
central nervous system (CNS) that often presents in young adults. Over the past decade …
[HTML][HTML] Biobank-scale inference of ancestral recombination graphs enables genealogical analysis of complex traits
BC Zhang, A Biddanda, ÁF Gunnarsson, F Cooper… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide genealogies compactly represent the evolutionary history of a set of genomes
and inferring them from genetic data has the potential to facilitate a wide range of analyses …
and inferring them from genetic data has the potential to facilitate a wide range of analyses …
[HTML][HTML] Leveraging polygenic functional enrichment to improve GWAS power
Functional genomics data has the potential to increase GWAS power by identifying SNPs
that have a higher prior probability of association. Here, we introduce a method that …
that have a higher prior probability of association. Here, we introduce a method that …