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Million Veterans Program

Broad Institute

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Organism:human· 4 Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 3 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 3 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:fine-mapping· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Saiju PyarajaniD· 3 shared Iskander SaidiD· 2 shared Kyriacos MarkianosiD· 2 shared Michael FrancisiD· 2 shared Philip D. HarveyiD· 2 shared Aarno V. PalotieiD· 1 shared Adam Maihofer· 1 shared Aitzkoa Lopez de Lapuente PortillaiD· 1 shared

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Genomic and transcriptomic insights into antipsychotic-induced changes in total cholesterol and body mass index in a multi-ancestry cohort of the US veterans

Hamed Kazemi, John E. Drake, Silviu‐Alin Bacanu, Benjamin H. McMahon, Khushbu Agarwal, Alejandro Zuniga, Sutanay Choudhury, Hamed Abbaszadegan, Sayera Dhaubhadel, Kory A. Johnson, Julie A. Kreyenbuhl, Stephen R. Marder, Philip D. Harvey, Vladimir I. Vladimirov, Million Veterans Program, , Ayman H. Fanous

The paper conducts a GWAS on antipsychotic-induced changes in total cholesterol and BMI in a multi-ancestry cohort, identifying genetic loci and pathways associated with these metabolic effects.

medRxiv · Jul 22, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Combinatorial effects of gene dosage, polygenic background and environment on complex traits

Molly Sacks, Marieke Klein, Tim Bigdeli, Mart Kals, Matthew T. Oetjens, Florian Bénitière, Jacquelyn Johnson, Adam Maihofer, Margit Nõukas, Michael Francis, Bryan Gorman, Iskander Said, Giulio Genovese, Georgios Voloudakis, Kyriacos Markianos, , Jonathan L. Sebat

The paper examines how gene dosage, polygenic background, and environment influence complex traits like height and BMI using large-scale data from multiple cohorts.

medRxiv · May 1, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Methylation profiling in the Million Veteran Program: design, quality control, and smoking-associated epigenetic signatures

Patrick A. Schreiner, Kyriacos Markianos, Michael Francis, Brendan M. Despard, Bryan R. Gorman, Iskander Said, Frederick Dong, Shruti Gautam, Daniel R. Dochtermann, Yunling Shi, Poornima Devineni, Colette Kirkpatrick, Nick Khazanov, Jennifer Moser, Million Veterans Program, , Saiju Pyarajan

The paper describes methylation profiling in the Million Veteran Program, identifies smoking-associated epigenetic signatures, and reports novel probe-smoking associations through ancestry-stratified EWAS.

medRxiv · Apr 23, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Genetic predisposition to myeloproliferative neoplasms implicates hematopoietic stem cell biology

Erik L. Bao, Satish Kumar Nandakumar, Xiaotian Liao, Alexander G. Bick, Juha M Karjalainen, Marcin Tabaka, Olga I. Gan, Aki Samuli Havulinna, Tuomo Kiiskinen, Caleb A. Lareau, Aitzkoa Lopez de Lapuente Portilla, Bo Li, Connor A. Emdin, Veryan Codd, Christopher P. Nelson, , Vijay G. Sankaran

This study identifies 14 genome-wide significant loci and a polygenic signature for myeloproliferative neoplasms, implicating hematopoietic stem cell function and self-renewal in disease risk.

bioRxiv · Oct 8, 2019 · PreprintGenetics