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Tamar E. C. Nijsten

Erasmus MCORCID 0000-0001-9940-2875Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1 Genetics· 1 Genomics· 1

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 3 Organism:human· 3 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:imaging· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1

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Manfred KayseriD· 3 shared Eppo Bonne WolviusiD· 2 shared Fan LiuiD· 2 shared Gu ZhuiD· 2 shared Nicholas G. MartiniD· 2 shared Sarah Elizabeth MedlandiD· 2 shared Ziyi XiongiD· 2 shared Alex William HewittiD· 1 shared

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Genetic & Genomic MedicineNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedMar 10, 2026

A large-scale genome-wide association meta-analysis for nevus count provides direct insights into the genetics of melanoma

G J M Shanika R Jayasinghe, Gu Zhu, Nirmala Pandeya…·Matthew H. Law

This study conducts a large-scale GWAS meta-analysis of nevus count, identifying 29 new loci and highlighting immune-related pathways relevant to melanoma risk.

3 citations

humanGWAS summary statistics

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintAug 3, 2025

Genetic Insights of Image-Based Traits: Analysis Pipeline for AI-based Phenotyping, Combined-GWAS, and Federated Learning with Application to the Human Face

Xianjing Liu, Ziyi Xiong, Fan Liu…·Gennady V. Roshchupkin

The paper presents a pipeline for analyzing image-based complex traits using AI phenotyping, combined-GWAS, and federated learning, applied to human facial data to identify genetic loci associated with facial shape.

DOI 10.1101/2025.08.03.668352

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GenomicseLifePeer-reviewedNov 25, 2019

Novel genetic loci affecting facial shape variation in humans

Ziyi Xiong, Gabriela Dankova, Laurence J Howe…·Manfred Kayser

This study identifies 24 genetic loci associated with facial shape variation in humans through GWAS and confirms 13 of them in a multi-ethnic cohort.

92 citations

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