2024 heart disease and stroke statistics: a report of US and global data from the American Heart Association

SS Martin, AW Aday, ZI Almarzooq, CAM Anderson… - Circulation, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National
Institutes of Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

A Okbay, Y Wu, N Wang, H Jayashankar, M Bennett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment (EA) in a
sample of~ 3 million individuals and identify 3,952 approximately uncorrelated genome …

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 …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory
mechanisms on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we …

Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries

A Mishra, R Malik, T Hachiya, T Jürgenson, S Namba… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke—the second leading cause of
death worldwide—were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry …

Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations

C Tcheandjieu, X Zhu, AT Hilliard, SL Clarke… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of coronary artery disease (CAD)
incorporating nearly a quarter of a million cases, in which existing studies are integrated with …

Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer's disease

S Morabito, E Miyoshi, N Michael, S Shahin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease,
coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across distinct cell types. Here, we …

Duration and key determinants of infectious virus shedding in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)

JJA van Kampen, DAMC van de Vijver… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Key questions in COVID-19 are the duration and determinants of infectious virus shedding.
Here, we report that infectious virus shedding is detected by virus cultures in 23 of the 129 …

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 …