Heart disease and stroke statistics—2022 update: a report from the American Heart Association

CW Tsao, AW Aday, ZI Almarzooq, A Alonso… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2023 update: a report from the American Heart Association

CW Tsao, AW Aday, ZI Almarzooq, CAM Anderson… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of
Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and …

The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

SE Graham, SL Clarke, KHH Wu, S Kanoni, GJM Zajac… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied
prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a clinical polygenic risk score assay and reporting workflow

L Hao, P Kraft, GF Berriz, ED Hynes, C Koch… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Implementation of polygenic risk scores (PRS) may improve disease prevention and
management but poses several challenges: the construction of clinically valid assays …

Deconstructing a syndrome: genomic insights into PCOS causal mechanisms and classification

M Dapas, A Dunaif - Endocrine reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common disorders in women of
reproductive age, affecting up to 15% worldwide, depending on the diagnostic criteria …

[HTML][HTML] Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

D Taliun, DN Harris, MD Kessler, J Carlson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme seeks to elucidate
the genetic architecture and biology of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, with the …

Tractor uses local ancestry to enable the inclusion of admixed individuals in GWAS and to boost power

EG Atkinson, AX Maihofer, M Kanai, AR Martin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Admixed populations are routinely excluded from genomic studies due to concerns over
population structure. Here, we present a statistical framework and software package, Tractor …

Plasma proteome analyses in individuals of European and African ancestry identify cis-pQTLs and models for proteome-wide association studies

J Zhang, D Dutta, A Köttgen, A Tin, P Schlosser… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved understanding of genetic regulation of the proteome can facilitate identification of
the causal mechanisms for complex traits. We analyzed data on 4,657 plasma proteins from …

[HTML][HTML] The road ahead in genetics and genomics

AL McGuire, S Gabriel, SA Tishkoff, A Wonkam… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Nature Reviews Genetics, we asked 12 leading
researchers to reflect on the key challenges and opportunities faced by the field of genetics …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry fine mapping implicates OAS1 splicing in risk of severe COVID-19

JE Huffman, G Butler-Laporte, A Khan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The OAS1/2/3 cluster has been identified as a risk locus for severe COVID-19
among individuals of European ancestry, with a protective haplotype of approximately 75 …