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 …

The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases

M Verbanck, CY Chen, B Neale, R Do - Nature genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Horizontal pleiotropy occurs when the variant has an effect on disease outside of its effect on
the exposure in Mendelian randomization (MR). Violation of the 'no horizontal …

The role of inflammation and genetics in periodontal disease

BG Loos, TE Van Dyke - Periodontology 2000, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Periodontitis is a complex disease:(a) various causative factors play a role simultaneously
and interact with each other; and (b) the disease is episodic in nature, and bursts of disease …

Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases

M Kanai, M Akiyama, A Takahashi, N Matoba… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Clinical measurements can be viewed as useful intermediate phenotypes to promote
understanding of complex human diseases. To acquire comprehensive insights into the …

The new NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (GWAS Catalog)

J MacArthur, E Bowler, M Cerezo, L Gil… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog has provided data from published genome-wide
association studies since 2008. In 2015, the database was redesigned and relocated to …

A comparison of robust Mendelian randomization methods using summary data

EAW Slob, S Burgess - Genetic epidemiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The number of Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses including large numbers of genetic
variants is rapidly increasing. This is due to the proliferation of genome‐wide association …

[HTML][HTML] Trans effects on gene expression can drive omnigenic inheritance

X Liu, YI Li, JK Pritchard - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Early genome-wide association studies (GWASs) led to the surprising discovery that, for
typical complex traits, most of the heritability is due to huge numbers of common variants …

Detection and interpretation of shared genetic influences on 42 human traits

JK Pickrell, T Berisa, JZ Liu, L Ségurel, JY Tung… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We performed a scan for genetic variants associated with multiple phenotypes by comparing
large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 42 traits or diseases. We identified 341 …

The druggable genome and support for target identification and validation in drug development

C Finan, A Gaulton, FA Kruger, RT Lumbers… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Target identification (determining the correct drug targets for a disease) and target validation
(demonstrating an effect of target perturbation on disease biomarkers and disease end …