Challenges and opportunities for developing more generalizable polygenic risk scores

Y Wang, K Tsuo, M Kanai, BM Neale… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate an individual's genetic likelihood of complex traits and
diseases by aggregating information across multiple genetic variants identified from genome …

Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses

SW Choi, TSH Mak, PF O'Reilly - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
A polygenic score (PGS) or polygenic risk score (PRS) is an estimate of an individual's
genetic liability to a trait or disease, calculated according to their genotype profile and …

[HTML][HTML] A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

L Yengo, S Vedantam, E Marouli, J Sidorenko, E Bartell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–
50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and …

[HTML][HTML] Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries

A Mishra, R Malik, T Hachiya, T Jürgenson, S Namba… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke—the second leading cause of
death worldwide—were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry …

The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions

N Rahmioglu, S Mortlock, M Ghiasi, PL Møller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 …

[HTML][HTML] Multiomics study of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

G Sveinbjornsson, MO Ulfarsson, RB Thorolfsdottir… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and its sequelae are growing health problems. We performed
a genome-wide association study of NAFL, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and …

Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction

R Karlsson Linnér, TT Mallard, PB Barr… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, such as substance use, antisocial
behavior and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, are collectively referred to as …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale multitrait genome-wide association analyses identify hundreds of glaucoma risk loci

X Han, P Gharahkhani, AR Hamel, JS Ong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, is a highly heritable human disease.
Previous genome-wide association studies have identified over 100 loci for the most …

Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates

R Border, G Athanasiadis, A Buil, AJ Schork, N Cai… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The observation of genetic correlations between disparate human traits has been
interpreted as evidence of widespread pleiotropy. Here, we introduce cross-trait assortative …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications

DF Levey, M Galimberti, JD Deak, FR Wendt… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
As recreational use of cannabis is being decriminalized in many places and medical use
widely sanctioned, there are growing concerns about increases in cannabis use disorder …