An overview of STRUCTURE: applications, parameter settings, and supporting software

L Porras-Hurtado, Y Ruiz, C Santos, C Phillips… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Objectives: We present an up-to-date review of STRUCTURE software: one of the most
widely used population analysis tools that allows researchers to assess patterns of genetic …

Meta-analysis methods for genome-wide association studies and beyond

E Evangelou, JPA Ioannidis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) has become a popular method
for discovering genetic risk variants. Here, we overview both widely applied and newer …

Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

A Okbay, BML Baselmans, JE De Neve, P Turley… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Very few genetic variants have been associated with depression and neuroticism, likely
because of limitations on sample size in previous studies. Subjective well-being, a …

Principal Component Analyses (PCA)-based findings in population genetic studies are highly biased and must be reevaluated

E Elhaik - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a multivariate analysis that reduces the
complexity of datasets while preserving data covariance. The outcome can be visualized on …

Visualizing spatial population structure with estimated effective migration surfaces

D Petkova, J Novembre, M Stephens - Nature genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic data often exhibit patterns broadly consistent with'isolation by distance'—a
phenomenon where genetic similarity decays with geographic distance. In a heterogeneous …

Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

J Yang, B Benyamin, BP McEvoy, S Gordon… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
SNPs discovered by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) account for only a small
fraction of the genetic variation of complex traits in human populations. Where is the …

Item-level analyses reveal genetic heterogeneity in neuroticism

M Nagel, K Watanabe, S Stringer, D Posthuma… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of psychological traits are generally conducted
on (dichotomized) sums of items or symptoms (eg, case-control status), and not on the …

Fast principal-component analysis reveals convergent evolution of ADH1B in Europe and East Asia

KJ Galinsky, G Bhatia, PR Loh, S Georgiev… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Searching for genetic variants with unusual differentiation between subpopulations is an
established approach for identifying signals of natural selection. However, existing methods …

New approaches to population stratification in genome-wide association studies

AL Price, NA Zaitlen, D Reich, N Patterson - Nature reviews genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Genome-wide association (GWA) studies are an effective approach for identifying genetic
variants associated with disease risk. GWA studies can be confounded by population …

IL28B is associated with response to chronic hepatitis C interferon-α and ribavirin therapy

V Suppiah, M Moldovan, G Ahlenstiel, T Berg… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects 3% of the world's population. Treatment of chronic HCV
consists of a combination of PEGylated interferon-α (PEG-IFN-α) and ribavirin (RBV). To …