Genetic analyses of the QT interval and its components in over 250K individuals identifies new loci and pathways affecting ventricular depolarization and repolarization
William John Young, Najim Lahrouchi, Aaron J. Isaacs…·Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro
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William John Young, Najim Lahrouchi, Aaron J. Isaacs…·Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro
Sally Marshall, Mark J. Adams, Kathryn Louise Evans…·Pippa A. Thomson
This study characterizes MDD subgroups based on weight and sleep changes, finding distinct clinical and genetic profiles, including novel associations with epilepsy and immunometabolic genes.
Danni A. Gadd, Robert Francis Hillary, Daniel L. McCartney…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
The paper identifies DNA methylation and proteomic markers associated with brain health through integrated methylome and phenome analyses.
Shweta Ramdas, Jonathan Judd, Sarah E. Graham…·Maria Sabater‐Lleal
This paper integrates GWAS data with functional genomic datasets to identify regulatory mechanisms and causal genes underlying lipid-related traits.
Leila Dorling, Sara Carvalho, Jamie Allen…·Javier J. Benitez
The paper assesses breast cancer risks linked to rare missense variants in five susceptibility genes using logistic and mixture models, finding varying risk contributions across genes.
Robert Francis Hillary, Daniel L. McCartney, Allan F. McRae…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
This study evaluates how biological and statistical properties of CpGs affect epigenetic predictions for eighteen traits, showing that CpG methylation QTL status and beta-value distribution influence prediction accuracy.
Daniel L. McCartney, Robert Francis Hillary, Eleanor L.S. Conole…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
This study identifies DNA methylation predictors of cognitive function using blood samples, showing they explain variance in cognitive ability and associate with biological markers.
Danni A. Gadd, Robert Francis Hillary, Daniel L. McCartney…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
The paper develops epigenetic scores (EpiScores) for plasma proteins to predict disease risk, finding 137 associations with incident morbidities independent of known factors.
Loïc Yengo, Sailaja Vedantam, Eirini Marouli…·Thomas Folkmann Hansen
This study identifies 12,111 SNPs associated with height from 5.4 million individuals, explaining most common SNP-based heritability and showing ancestry-specific prediction accuracy.
Richard Oppong, Thibaud Boutin, Archie I Campbell…·Sara Knott
SNHap-RHM jointly maps common and rare genetic variation affecting complex traits by combining SNP and haplotype-based genomic relationship matrices, identifying significant genomic regions for height and MDD.
Robert Francis Hillary, Danni A. Gadd, Daniel L. McCartney…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
The paper identifies genetic and epigenetic factors influencing plasma protein levels linked to Alzheimer's disease, finding novel associations with TREM2 and TBCA.
Yanni Zeng, Carmen Amador, Chenhao Gao…·Chris Haley
This study identifies modifiable parent-of-origin effects on DNA methylation by analyzing genetic and environmental factors in a large cohort.
Matteo D’Antonio, Jennifer Nguyen, Timothy D. Arthur…·Rasoul Aliannejad
This study identifies genetic loci associated with SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and disease severity using GWAS and colocalization, and links them to eQTLs in various tissues.
David M. Howard, Oliver Pain, Ryan Arathimos…·Cathryn M. Lewis
This study investigates the relationship between early life stressors and adult mental health through methylome-wide association studies, finding no evidence of methylome mediation but linking birth date to blood cell type composition.
Carmen Amador, Yanni Zeng, Michael Barber…·Chris Haley
This study uses genome-wide methylation data to assess the impact of smoking and gene-smoking interactions on obesity-related traits, showing improved variance explanation compared to traditional methods.
Irene V. van Blokland, Pauline Lanting, Anil P. S. Ori…·Lude Franke
The paper uses symptom-based case predictions to conduct a GWAS on COVID-19, finding new genetic susceptibility insights and suggesting different genetic architectures for severity and susceptibility.
Laurence J Howe, Michel Guillaume Nivard, Tim Morris…·Neil M Davies
In 159,701 siblings from 17 cohorts, population GWAS overstate direct effects on height, education, smoking, cognition, depressive symptoms and age at first birth; clinical traits mostly agree across models.
Anna J. Stevenson, Danni A. Gadd, Robert Francis Hillary…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
The paper develops a DNA methylation-based proxy for interleukin-6 and finds it correlates with age and cognitive functioning better than serum IL-6.
Rosie May Walker, Kadi Vaher, Mairead L. Bermingham…·Kathryn L. Evans
This study identifies epigenome-wide DNA methylation differences between APOE ε4 and ε2 carriers in whole blood, implicating lipid-related genes.
Robert Francis Hillary, Anna J. Stevenson, Daniel L. McCartney…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
This study shows that DNAm GrimAge predicts disease incidence and prevalence better than other epigenetic clocks in a large cohort.
Anna J. Stevenson, Daniel L. McCartney, Robert Francis Hillary…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
The paper develops an epigenetic CRP score to assess chronic inflammation and its link to cognitive ability, finding it more consistently associated with cognition than serum CRP across two cohorts.
Jenny van Dongen, Fiona A. Hagenbeek, Matthew J Suderman…·Dorret Irene Boomsma
This paper identifies DNA methylation sites associated with aggression through a meta-analysis of epigenome-wide studies across different age groups and tissues.
Katherine A. Fawcett, Ma’en Obeidat, Carl Melbourne…·Louise V. Wain
The paper identifies SNPs with sex-specific effects on lung function traits using UK Biobank data, finding a significant interaction at rs7697189 near HHIP.
Sarah Bauermeister, Chris Orton, Simon Thompson…·John Gallacher
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Weihua Meng, Brian Chan, Cameron Harris…·Blair Hamilton Smith
This study identifies 3 genetic loci associated with neck or shoulder pain using UK Biobank data, with partial replication in Generation Scotland.
Anne Seeboth, Daniel L. McCartney, Yunzhang Wang…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
This study examines DNA methylation outlier burden as a marker of biological age and finds it increases with age but is not strongly linked to health outcomes or survival.
Anna R. Docherty, Andrey A. Shabalin, Daniel E. Adkins…·Kenneth S. Kendler
This study finds that subthreshold psychosis symptoms in a population-based cohort are associated with genetic risks for schizophrenia, ADHD, autism, and neuroticism, with notable sex differences.
Rebecca A. Madden, Daniel L. McCartney, Rosie May Walker…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
This study links birth weight to adult health outcomes and DNA methylation differences, identifying a significant CpG site and associations with biological aging markers.
Rosie May Walker, Mairead L. Bermingham, Kadi Vaher…·Kathryn Louise Evans
The paper identifies DNA methylation signatures associated with dementia risk factors in blood samples from individuals without Alzheimer's disease.
Daniel L. McCartney, Futao Zhang, Robert Francis Hillary…·Riccardo Emilio Marioni
This study identifies DNA methylation loci associated with age-by-sex interactions in a cohort of 2,586 individuals, finding most significant loci are X-linked and linked to disease-related genes.