[HTML][HTML] Genetic and brain similarity independently predict childhood anthropometrics and neighborhood socioeconomic conditions

A Dahl, EM Eilertsen, SF Rodriguez-Cabello… - Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Linking the developing brain with individual differences in clinical and demographic traits is
challenging due to the substantial interindividual heterogeneity of brain anatomy and …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic findings and their implications for the evolutionary social sciences

BP Zietsch - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
What past selection pressures have shaped human traits and their variation and covariation
across individuals? These are key questions in the evolutionary social sciences. Recent …

Leveraging fine-scale population structure reveals conservation in genetic effect sizes between human populations across a range of human phenotypes

S Hu, LAF Ferreira, S Shi, G Hellenthal, J Marchini… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
An understanding of genetic differences between populations is essential for avoiding
confounding in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and understanding the evolution …

An effective hyper-parameter can increase the prediction accuracy in a single-step genetic evaluation

M Neshat, S Lee, MM Momin, B Truong… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The H-matrix best linear unbiased prediction (HBLUP) method has been widely used in
livestock breeding programs. It can integrate all information, including pedigree, genotypes …

MultiSuSiE improves multi-ancestry fine-mapping in All of Us whole-genome sequencing data

J Rossen, H Shi, BJ Strober, MJ Zhang, M Kanai… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Leveraging data from multiple ancestries can greatly improve fine-mapping power due to
differences in linkage disequilibrium and allele frequencies. We propose MultiSuSiE, an …

Cross-ancestry genetic architecture and prediction for cholesterol traits

MM Momin, X Zhou, E Hyppönen, B Benyamin, SH Lee - Human Genetics, 2024 - Springer
While cholesterol is essential, a high level of cholesterol is associated with the risk of
cardiovascular diseases. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have proven …

R2ROC: An efficient method of comparing two or more correlated AUC from out-of-sample prediction using polygenic scores

MM Momin, NR Wray, SH Lee - Human Genetics, 2024 - Springer
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) enable early prediction of disease risk. Evaluating PRS
performance for binary traits commonly relies on the area under the receiver operating …

Implications of self-identified race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry on genetic association studies in biobanks within health systems

R Johnson, B Pasaniuc - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.15696, 2024 - arxiv.org
Precision medicine aims to create biomedical solutions tailored to specific factors that affect
disease risk and treatment responses within the population. The success of the genomics …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling for polygenic genetic confounding in epidemiologic association studies

Z Zhao, X Yang, J Miao, S Dorn, SH Barcellos… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epidemiologic associations estimated from observational data are often confounded by
genetics due to pervasive pleiotropy among complex traits. Many studies either neglect …

Genetic and brain similarity independently predict childhood anthropometrics and socioeconomic markers

A Dahl, EM Eilertsen, SF Rodriguez-Cabello, L Norbom… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Linking the developing brain with individual differences in clinical and demographic traits is
challenging due to the substantial interindividual heterogeneity of brain anatomy and …