Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk

N Shrine, AG Izquierdo, J Chen, R Packer, RJ Hall… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and
predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of …

GDF15 linked to maternal risk of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

M Fejzo, N Rocha, I Cimino, SM Lockhart, CJ Petry… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
GDF15, a hormone acting on the brainstem, has been implicated in the nausea and vomiting
of pregnancy, including its most severe form, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), but a full …

New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

N Shrine, AL Guyatt, AM Erzurumluoglu, VE Jackson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Reduced lung function predicts mortality and is key to the diagnosis of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). In a genome-wide association study in 400,102 individuals of …

All around suboptimal health—a joint position paper of the Suboptimal Health Study Consortium and European Association for Predictive, Preventive and …

W Wang, Y Yan, Z Guo, H Hou, M Garcia, X Tan… - EPMA Journal, 2021 - Springer
First two decades of the twenty-first century are characterised by epidemics of non-
communicable diseases such as many hundreds of millions of patients diagnosed with …

Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

C Pattaro, A Teumer, M Gorski, AY Chu, M Li… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Reduced glomerular filtration rate defines chronic kidney disease and is associated with
cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide …

A general approach for haplotype phasing across the full spectrum of relatedness

J O'Connell, D Gurdasani, O Delaneau, N Pirastu… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Many existing cohorts contain a range of relatedness between genotyped individuals, either
by design or by chance. Haplotype estimation in such cohorts is a central step in many …

Application of high-dimensional feature selection: evaluation for genomic prediction in man

ML Bermingham, R Pong-Wong, A Spiliopoulou… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
In this study, we investigated the effect of five feature selection approaches on the
performance of a mixed model (G-BLUP) and a Bayesian (Bayes C) prediction method. We …

Glycans are a novel biomarker of chronological and biological ages

J Krištić, F Vučković, C Menni, L Klarić… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Fine structural details of glycans attached to the conserved N-glycosylation site significantly
not only affect function of individual immunoglobulin G (IgG) molecules but also mediate …

GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment

CA Rietveld, SE Medland, J Derringer, J Yang, T Esko… - science, 2013 - science.org
A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a
discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three …

Quantification of inbreeding due to distant ancestors and its detection using dense single nucleotide polymorphism data

MC Keller, PM Visscher, ME Goddard - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Inbreeding depression, which refers to reduced fitness among offspring of related parents,
has traditionally been studied using pedigrees. In practice, pedigree information is difficult to …