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 …

Genetics of coronary artery disease: discovery, biology and clinical translation

AV Khera, S Kathiresan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Coronary artery disease is the leading global cause of mortality. Long recognized to be
heritable, recent advances have started to unravel the genetic architecture of the disease …

Population-specific and trans-ancestry genome-wide analyses identify distinct and shared genetic risk loci for coronary artery disease

S Koyama, K Ito, C Terao, M Akiyama, M Horikoshi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To elucidate the genetics of coronary artery disease (CAD) in the Japanese population, we
conducted a large-scale genome-wide association study of 168,228 individuals of Japanese …

Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes

R Malik, G Chauhan, M Traylor, M Sargurupremraj… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Stroke has multiple etiologies, but the underlying genes and pathways are largely unknown.
We conducted a multiancestry genome-wide-association meta-analysis in 521,612 …

Identification of 38 novel loci for systemic lupus erythematosus and genetic heterogeneity between ancestral groups

YF Wang, Y Zhang, Z Lin, H Zhang, TY Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a worldwide autoimmune disease with high
heritability, shows differences in prevalence, severity and age of onset among different …

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 …

Novel Alzheimer disease risk loci and pathways in African American individuals using the African genome resources panel: a meta-analysis

BW Kunkle, M Schmidt, HU Klein, AC Naj… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Compared with non-Hispanic White individuals, African American individuals
from the same community are approximately twice as likely to develop Alzheimer disease …

A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

Nature genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Existing knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is
largely based on genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of common SNPs …

A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

LG Fritsche, W Igl, JNC Bailey, F Grassmann… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the
elderly, with limited therapeutic options. Here we report on a study of> 12 million variants …

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 …