Influence of autozygosity on common disease risk across the phenotypic spectrum
Daniel Shiloh Malawsky, Eva S. van Walree, Benjamin M. Jacobs, Teng Hiang Heng, Qin Huang, Ataf Hussain Sabir, Saadia Rahman, Saghira Malik Sharif, Ahsan Khan, Maša Umićević Mirkov, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Xin Gao, Fowzan Sami Alkuraya, Daniëlle Posthuma, William G. Newman, , Hilary C. Martin
The paper investigates the association between autozygosity and common diseases in multiple cohorts, finding significant links to twelve diseases and estimating autozygosity's contribution to type 2 diabetes cases.
Cell · Sep 26, 2023Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine