[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies in ancestrally diverse populations: opportunities, methods, pitfalls, and recommendations

RE Peterson, K Kuchenbaecker, RK Walters, CY Chen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have focused primarily on populations of
European descent, but it is essential that diverse populations become better represented …

Genome-wide association studies for common diseases and complex traits

JN Hirschhorn, MJ Daly - Nature reviews genetics, 2005 - nature.com
Genetic factors strongly affect susceptibility to common diseases and also influence disease-
related quantitative traits. Identifying the relevant genes has been difficult, in part because …

Gene–environment correlations across geographic regions affect genome-wide association studies

A Abdellaoui, CV Dolan, KJH Verweij, MG Nivard - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Gene–environment correlations affect associations between genetic variants and complex
traits in genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Here we showed in up to 43,516 British …

Integrating human brain proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates new proteins in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

AP Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, J Gockley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci for Alzheimer's
disease (AD),, but how these loci confer AD risk is unclear. Here, we aimed to identify loci …

A resource-efficient tool for mixed model association analysis of large-scale data

L Jiang, Z Zheng, T Qi, KE Kemper, NR Wray… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been widely used as an experimental
design to detect associations between genetic variants and a phenotype. Two major …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference

X Meng, G Navoly, O Giannakopoulou, DF Levey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of major depression (MD) have been
conducted in samples of European ancestry. Here we report a multi-ancestry GWAS of MD …

Association analyses identify 38 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease and highlight shared genetic risk across populations

JZ Liu, S Van Sommeren, H Huang, SC Ng, R Alberts… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD). Here we report the first trans-ancestry association study of IBD, with genome-wide or …

Genetic association analyses implicate aberrant regulation of innate and adaptive immunity genes in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus

J Bentham, DL Morris, DS Cunninghame Graham… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a genetically complex autoimmune disease
characterized by loss of immune tolerance to nuclear and cell surface antigens. Previous …

Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine

P Gormley, V Anttila, BS Winsvold, P Palta, T Esko… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Migraine is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting around one in seven people
worldwide, but its molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. There is some debate …

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 …