Algorithmic fairness in artificial intelligence for medicine and healthcare

RJ Chen, JJ Wang, DFK Williamson, TY Chen… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
In healthcare, the development and deployment of insufficiently fair systems of artificial
intelligence (AI) can undermine the delivery of equitable care. Assessments of AI models …

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 …

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

V Trubetskoy, AF Pardiñas, T Qi, G Panagiotaropoulou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%, much of which is attributable to common risk
alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with …

Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations

Y Ruan, YF Lin, YCA Feng, CY Chen, M Lam, Z Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have attenuated cross-population predictive performance. As
existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted predominantly in …

Genetic architecture of the inflammatory bowel diseases across East Asian and European ancestries

Z Liu, R Liu, H Gao, S Jung, X Gao, R Sun, X Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are chronic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract with
the following two subtypes: Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). To date, most …

Mapping genomic loci prioritises genes and implicates synaptic biology in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric … - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder whose pathophysiology is largely unknown. It has a
heritability of 60-80%, much of which is attributable to common risk alleles, suggesting …

Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

CM Lewis, E Vassos - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies have shown unequivocally that common complex
disorders have a polygenic genetic architecture and have enabled researchers to identify …

Trans-ethnic and ancestry-specific blood-cell genetics in 746,667 individuals from 5 global populations

MH Chen, LM Raffield, A Mousas, S Sakaue… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Most loci identified by GWASs have been found in populations of European ancestry (EUR).
In trans-ethnic meta-analyses for 15 hematological traits in 746,667 participants, including …

Shared mechanisms across the major psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

TS Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, SM Vattathil… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Several common psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases share epidemiologic risk;
however, whether they share pathophysiology is unclear and is the focus of our …