[PDF][PDF] 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 …

[PDF][PDF] Using genetic association data to guide drug discovery and development: Review of methods and applications

S Burgess, AM Mason, AJ Grant, EAW Slob… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Evidence on the validity of drug targets from randomized trials is reliable but typically
expensive and slow to obtain. In contrast, evidence from conventional observational …

The next-generation Open Targets Platform: reimagined, redesigned, rebuilt

D Ochoa, A Hercules, M Carmona… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Open Targets Platform (https://platform. opentargets. org/) is an open source
resource to systematically assist drug target identification and prioritisation using publicly …

[PDF][PDF] Virus exposure and neurodegenerative disease risk across national biobanks

KS Levine, HL Leonard, C Blauwendraat, H Iwaki… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
With recent findings connecting the Epstein-Barr virus to an increased risk of multiple
sclerosis and growing concerns regarding the neurological impact of the coronavirus …

[HTML][HTML] Association between gut microbiota and preeclampsia-eclampsia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

P Li, H Wang, L Guo, X Gou, G Chen… - BMC …, 2022 - bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com
Several recent observational studies have reported that gut microbiota composition is
associated with preeclampsia. However, the causal effect of gut microbiota on preeclampsia …

[PDF][PDF] Meta-analysis fine-mapping is often miscalibrated at single-variant resolution

M Kanai, R Elzur, W Zhou, KHH Wu, H Rasheed… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Meta-analysis is pervasively used to combine multiple genome-wide association studies
(GWASs). Fine-mapping of meta-analysis studies is typically performed as in a single-cohort …

[HTML][HTML] A phenome-wide comparative analysis of genetic discordance between obesity and type 2 diabetes

DE Coral, J Fernandez-Tajes, N Tsereteli… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are causally related, yet there is considerable heterogeneity in
the consequences of both conditions and the mechanisms of action are poorly defined. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic risk factors have a substantial impact on healthy life years

S Jukarainen, T Kiiskinen, S Kuitunen, AS Havulinna… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The impact of genetic variation on overall disease burden has not been comprehensively
evaluated. We introduce an approach to estimate the effect of genetic risk factors on …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic potential of IL6R blockade for the treatment of sepsis and sepsis-related death: A Mendelian randomisation study

FW Hamilton, M Thomas, D Arnold, T Palmer… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Sepsis is characterised by dysregulated, life-threatening immune responses,
which are thought to be driven by cytokines such as interleukin 6 (IL-6). Genetic variants in …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating transcriptomics, metabolomics, and GWAS helps reveal molecular mechanisms for metabolite levels and disease risk

X Yin, D Bose, A Kwon, SC Hanks, AU Jackson… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Transcriptomics data have been integrated with genome-wide association studies (GWASs)
to help understand disease/trait molecular mechanisms. The utility of metabolomics …