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 …

Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

[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 …

Systematic differences in discovery of genetic effects on gene expression and complex traits

H Mostafavi, JP Spence, S Naqvi, JK Pritchard - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Most signals in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of complex traits implicate
noncoding genetic variants with putative gene regulatory effects. However, currently …

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 …

Polygenic risk scores for cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

JW O'Sullivan, S Raghavan, C Marquez-Luna… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease is the leading contributor to years lost due to disability or premature
death among adults. Current efforts focus on risk prediction and risk factor mitigation ‚which …

Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes

DJ Weiner, A Nadig, KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, BM Neale… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Both common and rare genetic variants influence complex traits and common diseases.
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of common-variant …

Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations

Y Ruan, YF Lin, YCA Feng, CY Chen, M Lam, Z Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have attenuated cross-population predictive performance. As
existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted predominantly in …

Causal effects on complex traits are similar for common variants across segments of different continental ancestries within admixed individuals

K Hou, Y Ding, Z Xu, Y Wu, A Bhattacharya, R Mester… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals of admixed ancestries (for example, African Americans) inherit a mosaic of
ancestry segments (local ancestry) originating from multiple continental ancestral …

A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …