Current findings, challenges and novel approaches in human genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis

M Möller, EG Hoal - Tuberculosis, 2010 - Elsevier
The evidence for a human genetic component in susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) is
incontrovertible. Quite apart from studies of rare disease events illustrating the importance of …

Admixture mapping comes of age

CA Winkler, GW Nelson… - Annual review of genomics …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Admixture mapping is based on the hypothesis that differences in disease rates between
populations are due in part to frequency differences in disease-causing genetic variants. In …

Ancient admixture in human history

N Patterson, P Moorjani, Y Luo, S Mallick, N Rohland… - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Population mixture is an important process in biology. We present a suite of methods for
learning about population mixtures, implemented in a software package called …

A genetic atlas of human admixture history

G Hellenthal, GBJ Busby, G Band, JF Wilson, C Capelli… - science, 2014 - science.org
Modern genetic data combined with appropriate statistical methods have the potential to
contribute substantially to our understanding of human history. We have developed an …

Mapping human genetic diversity in Asia

HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium, MA Abdulla… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Asia harbors substantial cultural and linguistic diversity, but the geographic structure of
genetic variation across the continent remains enigmatic. Here we report a large-scale …

Genomic dissection of population substructure of Han Chinese and its implication in association studies

S Xu, X Yin, S Li, W Jin, H Lou, L Yang, X Gong… - The American Journal of …, 2009 - cell.com
To date, most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and studies of fine-scale
population structure have been conducted primarily on Europeans. Han Chinese, the largest …

Novel loci and pathways significantly associated with longevity

YI Zeng, C Nie, J Min, X Liu, M Li, H Chen, H Xu… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Only two genome-wide significant loci associated with longevity have been identified so far,
probably because of insufficient sample sizes of centenarians, whose genomes may harbor …

Detecting structure of haplotypes and local ancestry

Y Guan - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a two-layer hidden Markov model to detect the structure of haplotypes for
unrelated individuals. This allows us to model two scales of linkage disequilibrium (one …

Global distribution of functionally important CYP2C9 alleles and their inferred metabolic consequences

Y Zhou, L Nevosadová, E Eliasson, VM Lauschke - Human genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Genetic variability in the cytochrome P450 CYP2C9 constitutes an important
predictor for efficacy and safety of various commonly prescribed drugs, including coumarin …

Demographics, phenotypic health characteristics and genetic analysis of centenarians in China

Y Zeng, Q Feng, D Gu, JW Vaupel - Mechanisms of ageing and …, 2017 - Elsevier
After a brief introduction to the background, significance and unique features of the
centenarian population in China, we describe the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity …