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Genome-wide study of DNA methylation shows alterations in metabolic, inflammato...
Hop, Paul J.; Zwamborn, Ramona A. J.; Hannon, Eilis; Shireby, Gemma L.; Nabais, Marta F.; Walker, Emma M.; van Rheenen, Wouter; van Vugt, Joke J. F. A.Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with an estimated heritability between 40 and 50%. DNA methylation patterns can serve as proxies of (past) exposures and disease progression, as well as providing a potential mechanism that mediates genetic or environmental risk. Here, we present a blood-based epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis in 9706 samples passing stringent...
Genetic control of temperament traits across species: association of autism spe...
Costilla, Roy; Kemper, Kathryn E.; Byrne, Enda M.; Porto-Neto, Laercio R.; Carvalheiro, Roberto [UNESP]; Purfield, Deirdre C.; Doyle, Jennifer L.Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T17:59:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-08-26; Australian Research Council; Australian National Health and Medical Research Council; University of Queensland; Science Foundation Ireland; Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine on behalf of the Government of Ireland; Background Temperament traits are of high importance across species. In humans, t...
Improving genetic prediction by leveraging genetic correlations among human dis...
Maier, Robert M.; Zhu, Zhihong; Lee, Sang Hong; Trzaskowski, Maciej; Ruderfer, Douglas M.; Stahl, Eli A.; Ripke, Stephan; Wray, Naomi R.; Yang, JianGenomic prediction has the potential to contribute to precision medicine. However, to date, the utility of such predictors is limited due to low accuracy for most traits. Here theory and simulation study are used to demonstrate that widespread pleiotropy among phenotypes can be utilised to improve genomic risk prediction. We show how a genetic predictor can be created as a weighted index that combines published...
Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain
Anttila, Verneri; Bulik-Sullivan, Brendan; Finucane, Hilary K.; Walters, Raymond K.; Bras, Jose; Duncan, Laramie; Escott-Price, ValentinaDisorders of the brain can exhibit considerable epidemiological comorbidity and often share symptoms, provoking debate about their etiologic overlap. We quantified the genetic sharing of 25 brain disorders from genome-wide association studies of 265,218 patients and 784,643 control participants and assessed their relationship to 17 phenotypes from 1,191,588 individuals. Psychiatric disorders share common varian...
Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic arc...
van Rheenen, Wouter; Shatunov, Aleksey; Dekker, Annelot M.; McLaughlin, Russell L.; Diekstra, Frank P.; Pulit, Sara L.; van der Spek, Rick A. A.To elucidate the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and find associated loci, we assembled a custom imputation reference panel from whole-genome-sequenced patients with ALS and matched controls (n = 1,861). Through imputation and mixed-model association analysis in 12,577 cases and 23,475 controls, combined with 2,579 cases and 2,767 controls in an independent replication cohort, we fin...