[HTML][HTML] Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta …

R Patterson, E McNamara, M Tainio, TH de Sá… - European journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose: To estimate the strength and shape of the dose–response relationship between
sedentary behaviour and all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality, and …

Axes of a revolution: challenges and promises of big data in healthcare

S Shilo, H Rossman, E Segal - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Health data are increasingly being generated at a massive scale, at various levels of
phenotyping and from different types of resources. Concurrent with recent technological …

[HTML][HTML] Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects

LJ Howe, MG Nivard, TT Morris, AF Hansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture
effects of inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations

CG Boer, K Hatzikotoulas, L Southam, L Stefánsdóttir… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Osteoarthritis affects over 300 million people worldwide. Here, we conduct a genome-wide
association study meta-analysis across 826,690 individuals (177,517 with osteoarthritis) and …

[HTML][HTML] Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease

W Zhou, M Kanai, KHH Wu, H Rasheed, K Tsuo… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Biobanks facilitate genome-wide association studies (GWASs), which have mapped
genomic loci across a range of human diseases and traits. However, most biobanks are …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Cohort profile update: the HUNT study, Norway

BO Åsvold, A Langhammer, TA Rehn… - International journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The Trøndelag Health Study (the HUNT Study) is a population-based cohort study of the
adult population in Trøndelag County, Norway. It was previously called the Nord-Trøndelag …

Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

M Liu, Y Jiang, R Wedow, Y Li, DM Brazel, F Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tobacco and alcohol use are leading causes of mortality that influence risk for many
complex diseases and disorders. They are heritable, and etiologically related, behaviors that …

[HTML][HTML] Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses

B Brumpton, E Sanderson, K Heilbron… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Estimates from Mendelian randomization studies of unrelated individuals can be biased due
to uncontrolled confounding from familial effects. Here we describe methods for within-family …

Biobank-driven genomic discovery yields new insight into atrial fibrillation biology

JB Nielsen, RB Thorolfsdottir, LG Fritsche, W Zhou… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
To identify genetic variation underlying atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac
arrhythmia, we performed a genome-wide association study of> 1,000,000 people, including …