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Health equity is the state in which everyone has fair and just opportunities to attain their highest level of health. The field of human genomics has fallen short in increasing health equity, largely because t...
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Prioritizing diversity in human genomics research
Knowledge of how genomic variants vary by population increases our ability to understand genomic contributions to health and disease and to apply this knowledg...
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Fifteen new risk loci for coronary artery disease highlight arterial-wall-specific mechanisms
Joanna Howson and colleagues perform a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis for coronary artery disease in large, trans-ancestry cohorts. They identify 15 new loci and correlate these regions with c...
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Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height
Timothy Frayling, Joel Hirschhorn, Peter Visscher and colleagues report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for adult height in 253,288 individuals. They identify 697 variants in 423 loci signif...
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Systematic comparison of phenome-wide association study of electronic medical record data and genome-wide association study data
When applied in large scale to electronic medical record data, the PheWAS approach replicates GWAS associations and reveals potentially new pleiotropic associations.