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Open AccessGenetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse pathophysiological processes1,2 and molecular mechanisms that are often specific to cell type3,4. Here, to characterize the genetic c...
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Open AccessA cost-effective sequencing method for genetic studies combining high-depth whole exome and low-depth whole genome
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) at high-depth (30X) allows the accurate discovery of variants in the coding and non-coding DNA regions and helps elucidate the genetic underpinnings of human health and diseases. ...
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Open AccessHLA allele-calling using multi-ancestry whole-exome sequencing from the UK Biobank identifies 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region on chromosome 6 is strongly associated with many immune-mediated and infection-related diseases. Due to its highly polymorphic nature and complex linkage disequilibrium...
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From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics
The substantial investments in human genetics and genomics made over the past three decades were anticipated to result in many innovative therapies. Here we investigate the extent to which these expectations h...
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Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls (48.9% non-European descent) through the...
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Open AccessSequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program
The Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme seeks to elucidate the genetic architecture and biology of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, with the ultimate goal of improving diagnosis, treat...
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Open AccessLoss-of-function genomic variants highlight potential therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease
Pharmaceutical drugs targeting dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease (CVD) may increase the risk of fatty liver disease and other metabolic disorders. To identify potential novel CVD drug targets without the...
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Exploring and visualizing large-scale genetic associations by using PheWeb
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Fine-map** type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps
We expanded GWAS discovery for type 2 diabetes (T2D) by combining data from 898,130 European-descent individuals (9% cases), after imputation to high-density reference panels. With these data, we (i) extend th...
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Open AccessGenome-wide analyses identify a role for SLC17A4 and AADAT in thyroid hormone regulation
Thyroid dysfunction is an important public health problem, which affects 10% of the general population and increases the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Many aspects of thyroid hormone regulati...
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Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-map** in type 2 diabetes
We aggregated coding variant data for 81,412 type 2 diabetes cases and 370,832 controls of diverse ancestry, identifying 40 coding variant association signals (P < 2.2 × 10−7); of these, 16 map outside known risk...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: 1000 Genomes-based meta-analysis identifies 10 novel loci for kidney function
Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 45040; published online: 28 April 2017; updated: 26 May 2017 The original version of this Article contained a typographical error in the spelling of the author Martin H. d...
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Open Access1000 Genomes-based meta-analysis identifies 10 novel loci for kidney function
HapMap imputed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed >50 loci at which common variants with minor allele frequency >5% are associated with kidney function. GWAS using more complete reference set...
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Open AccessGenetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function
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 association studies for estimated gl...
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Open AccessEfficient haplotype block recognition of very long and dense genetic sequences
The new sequencing technologies enable to scan very long and dense genetic sequences, obtaining datasets of genetic markers that are an order of magnitude larger than previously available. Such genetic sequenc...
