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    • Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies a Novel Locus Contributing to Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility in Sikhs of Punjabi Origin From India 

      Saxena, Richa; Saleheen, Danish; Been, Latonya F.; Garavito, Martha L.; Braun, Timothy; Bjonnes, Andrew; Young, Robin; Ho, Weang Kee; Rasheed, Asif; Frossard, Philippe; Sim, Xueling; Hassanali, Neelam; Radha, Venkatesan; Chidambaram, Manickam; Liju, Samuel; Rees, Simon D.; Ng, Daniel Peng-Keat; Wong, Tien-Yin; Yamauchi, Toshimasa; Hara, Kazuo; Tanaka, Yasushi; Hirose, Hiroshi; McCarthy, Mark I.; Morris, Andrew P.; Basit, Abdul; Barnett, Anthony H.; Katulanda, Prasad; Matthews, David; Mohan, Viswanathan; Wander, Gurpreet S.; Singh, Jai Rup; Mehra, Narinder K.; Ralhan, Sarju; Kamboh, M. Ilyas; Mulvihill, John J.; Maegawa, Hiroshi; Tobe, Kazuyuki; Maeda, Shiro; Cho, Yoon S.; Tai, E. Shyong; Kelly, M. Ann; Chambers, John C.; Kooner, Jaspal S.; Kadowaki, Takashi; Deloukas, Panos; Rader, Daniel J.; Danesh, John; Sanghera, Dharambir K. (American Diabetes Association, 2013)
      We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and a multistage meta-analysis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Punjabi Sikhs from India. Our discovery GWAS in 1,616 individuals (842 case subjects) was followed by in silico ...

    • A genome-wide association study identifies common variants influencing serum uric acid concentrations in a Chinese population 

      Yang, Binyao; Mo, Zengnan; Wu, Chen; Yang, Handong; Yang, Xiaobo; He, Yunfeng; Gui, Lixuan; Zhou, Li; Guo, Huan; Zhang, Xiaomin; Yuan, Jing; Dai, Xiayun; Li, Jun; Qiu, Gaokun; Huang, Suli; Deng, Qifei; Feng, Yingying; Guan, Lei; Hu, Die; Zhang, Xiao; Wang, Tian; Zhu, Jiang; Min, Xinwen; Lang, Mingjian; Li, Dongfeng; Hu, Frank B; Lin, Dongxin; Wu, Tangchun; He, Meian (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Uric acid (UA) is a complex phenotype influenced by both genetic and environmental factors as well as their interactions. Current genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified a variety of genetic ...

    • Genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci associated with both mammographic density and breast cancer risk 

      Lindström, Sara; Thompson, Deborah J.; Paterson, Andrew D.; Li, Jingmei; Gierach, Gretchen L.; Scott, Christopher; Stone, Jennifer; Douglas, Julie A.; dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel; Fernandez-Navarro, Pablo; Verghase, Jajini; Smith, Paula; Brown, Judith; Luben, Robert; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Loos, Ruth J.F.; Heit, John A.; Pankratz, V. Shane; Norman, Aaron; Goode, Ellen L.; Cunningham, Julie M.; deAndrade, Mariza; Vierkant, Robert A.; Czene, Kamila; Fasching, Peter A.; Baglietto, Laura; Southey, Melissa C.; Giles, Graham G.; Shah, Kaanan P.; Chan, Heang-Ping; Helvie, Mark A.; Beck, Andrew H.; Knoblauch, Nicholas W.; Hazra, Aditi; Hunter, David J.; Kraft, Peter; Pollan, Marina; Figueroa, Jonine D.; Couch, Fergus J.; Hopper, John L.; Hall, Per; Easton, Douglas F.; Boyd, Norman F.; Vachon, Celine M.; Tamimi, Rulla M. (2015)
      Mammographic density reflects the amount of stromal and epithelial tissues in relation to adipose tissue in the breast and is a strong risk factor for breast cancer. Here we report the results from meta-analysis of genome-wide ...

    • Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pancreatic cancer 

      Wolpin, Brian M.; Rizzato, Cosmeri; Kraft, Peter; Kooperberg, Charles; Petersen, Gloria M.; Wang, Zhaoming; Arslan, Alan A.; Beane-Freeman, Laura; Bracci, Paige M.; Buring, Julie; Canzian, Federico; Duell, Eric J.; Gallinger, Steven; Giles, Graham G.; Goodman, Gary E.; Goodman, Phyllis J.; Jacobs, Eric J.; Kamineni, Aruna; Klein, Alison P.; Kolonel, Laurence N.; Kulke, Matthew H.; Li, Donghui; Malats, Núria; Olson, Sara H.; Risch, Harvey A.; Sesso, Howard D.; Visvanathan, Kala; White, Emily; Zheng, Wei; Abnet, Christian C.; Albanes, Demetrius; Andreotti, Gabriella; Austin, Melissa A.; Barfield, Richard; Basso, Daniela; Berndt, Sonja I.; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Brotzman, Michelle; Büchler, Markus W.; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas; Bugert, Peter; Burdette, Laurie; Campa, Daniele; Caporaso, Neil E.; Capurso, Gabriele; Chung, Charles; Cotterchio, Michelle; Costello, Eithne; Elena, Joanne; Funel, Niccola; Gaziano, J. Michael; Giese, Nathalia A.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Goggins, Michael; Gorman, Megan J.; Gross, Myron; Haiman, Christopher A.; Hassan, Manal; Helzlsouer, Kathy J.; Henderson, Brian E.; Holly, Elizabeth A.; Hu, Nan; Hunter, David J.; Innocenti, Federico; Jenab, Mazda; Kaaks, Rudolf; Key, Timothy J.; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Klein, Eric A.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Krogh, Vittorio; Kupcinskas, Juozas; Kurtz, Robert C.; LaCroix, Andrea; Landi, Maria T.; Landi, Stefano; Le Marchand, Loic; Mambrini, Andrea; Mannisto, Satu; Milne, Roger L.; Nakamura, Yusuke; Oberg, Ann L.; Owzar, Kouros; Patel, Alpa V.; Peeters, Petra H. M.; Peters, Ulrike; Pezzilli, Raffaele; Piepoli, Ada; Porta, Miquel; Real, Francisco X.; Riboli, Elio; Rothman, Nathaniel; Scarpa, Aldo; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Silverman, Debra T.; Soucek, Pavel; Sund, Malin; Talar-Wojnarowska, Renata; Taylor, Philip R.; Theodoropoulos, George E.; Thornquist, Mark; Tjønneland, Anne; Tobias, Geoffrey S.; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Vodicka, Pavel; Wactawski-Wende, Jean; Wentzensen, Nicolas; Wu, Chen; Yu, Herbert; Yu, Kai; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Hoover, Robert; Hartge, Patricia; Fuchs, Charles; Chanock, Stephen J.; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael S.; Amundadottir, Laufey T. (2014)
      We performed a multistage genome-wide association study (GWAS) including 7,683 individuals with pancreatic cancer and 14,397 controls of European descent. Four new loci reached genome-wide significance: rs6971499 at 7q32.3 ...

    • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Alleles Associated with Hair Color and Skin Pigmentation 

      Kraft, Peter; Guo, Qun; Qureshi, Abrar; Duffy, David L.; Montgomery, Grant W.; Hayward, Nicholas K.; Thomas, Gilles; Hoover, Robert N.; Chanock, Stephen; Han, Jiali; Nan, Hongmei; Chen, Constance; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Hu, Frank B.; Zhao, Zhen Zhen; Martin, Nicholas G.; Hunter, David J. (Public Library of Science, 2008)
      We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study of natural hair color in more than 10,000 men and women of European ancestry from the United States and Australia. An initial analysis of 528,173 single nucleotide ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Loci Associated with Circulating Phospho- and Sphingolipid Concentrations 

      Demirkan, Ayşe; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Ugocsai, Peter; Isaacs, Aaron; Pramstaller, Peter P.; Liebisch, Gerhard; Wilson, James F.; Johansson, Åsa; Rudan, Igor; Aulchenko, Yurii S.; Kirichenko, Anatoly V.; Janssens, A. Cecile J. W.; Jansen, Ritsert C.; Gnewuch, Carsten; Domingues, Francisco S.; Pattaro, Cristian; Wild, Sarah H.; Jonasson, Inger; Polasek, Ozren; Zorkoltseva, Irina V.; Karssen, Lennart C.; Struchalin, Maksim; Floyd, James; Igl, Wilmar; Biloglav, Zrinka; Broer, Linda; Pfeufer, Arne; Pichler, Irene; Zaboli, Ghazal; Kolcic, Ivana; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Huffman, Jennifer; Hastie, Nicholas D.; Uitterlinden, Andre; Franke, Lude; Vitart, Veronique; Nelson, Christopher P.; Preuss, Michael; Bis, Joshua C.; Franceschini, Nora; Witteman, Jacqueline C. M.; Axenovich, Tatiana; Oostra, Ben A.; Meitinger, Thomas; Hicks, Andrew A.; Hayward, Caroline; Wright, Alan F.; Gyllensten, Ulf; Campbell, Harry; Schmitz, Gerd; Hofman, Albert; Campbell, Susanna Grace; Franklin, Christopher S.; O'Donnell, Christopher Joseph (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Phospho- and sphingolipids are crucial cellular and intracellular compounds. These lipids are required for active transport, a number of enzymatic processes, membrane formation, and cell signalling. Disruption of their ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Pharmacogenomic Loci For Therapeutic Response to Montelukast in Asthma 

      Dahlin, Amber; Litonjua, Augusto; Lima, John J.; Tamari, Mayumi; Kubo, Michiaki; Irvin, Charles G.; Peters, Stephen P.; Tantisira, Kelan G. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Background: Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a powerful tool to identify novel pharmacogenetic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) are a major class of asthma medications, ...

    • A genome-wide association study identifies risk loci for spirometric measures among smokers of European and African ancestry 

      Lutz, Sharon M.; Cho, Michael H.; Young, Kendra; Hersh, Craig P.; Castaldi, Peter J.; McDonald, Merry-Lynn; Regan, Elizabeth; Mattheisen, Manuel; DeMeo, Dawn L.; Parker, Margaret; Foreman, Marilyn; Make, Barry J.; Jensen, Robert L.; Casaburi, Richard; Lomas, David A.; Bhatt, Surya P.; Bakke, Per; Gulsvik, Amund; Crapo, James D.; Beaty, Terri H.; Laird, Nan M.; Lange, Christoph; Hokanson, John E.; Silverman, Edwin K. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Pulmonary function decline is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality among smokers. Post bronchodilator FEV1 and FEV1/FVC ratio are considered the standard assessment of airflow obstruction. We performed ...

    • Genome-wide association study identifies SESTD1 as a novel risk gene for lithium-responsive bipolar disorder 

      Song, J; Bergen, S E; Di Florio, A; Karlsson, R; Charney, A; Ruderfer, D M; Stahl, E A; Chambert, K D; Moran, J L; Gordon-Smith, K; Forty, L; Green, E K; Jones, I; Jones, L; Scolnick, E M; Sklar, P; Smoller, J W; Lichtenstein, P; Hultman, C; Craddock, N; Landén, M; Smoller, Jordan W; Perlis, Roy H; Lee, Phil Hyoun; Castro, Victor M; Hoffnagle, Alison G; Sklar, Pamela; Stahl, Eli A; Purcell, Shaun M; Ruderfer, Douglas M; Charney, Alexander W; Roussos, Panos; Michele Pato, Carlos Pato; Medeiros, Helen; Sobel, Janet; Craddock, Nick; Jones, Ian; Forty, Liz; Florio, Arianna Di; Green, Elaine; Jones, Lisa; Gordon-Smith, Katherine; Landen, Mikael; Hultman, Christina; Jureus, Anders; Bergen, Sarah; McCarroll, Steven; Moran, Jennifer; Chambert, Kimberly; Belliveau, Richard A (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Lithium is the mainstay prophylactic treatment for bipolar disorder (BD), but treatment response varies considerably across individuals. Patients who respond well to lithium treatment might represent a relatively homogeneous ...

    • Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Shared Risk Loci Common to Two Malignancies in Golden Retrievers 

      Tonomura, Noriko; Elvers, Ingegerd; Thomas, Rachael; Megquier, Kate; Turner-Maier, Jason; Howald, Cedric; Sarver, Aaron L.; Swofford, Ross; Frantz, Aric M.; Ito, Daisuke; Mauceli, Evan; Arendt, Maja; Noh, Hyun Ji; Koltookian, Michele; Biagi, Tara; Fryc, Sarah; Williams, Christina; Avery, Anne C.; Kim, Jong-Hyuk; Barber, Lisa; Burgess, Kristine; Lander, Eric S.; Karlsson, Elinor K.; Azuma, Chieko; Modiano, Jaime F.; Breen, Matthew; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Dogs, with their breed-determined limited genetic background, are great models of human disease including cancer. Canine B-cell lymphoma and hemangiosarcoma are both malignancies of the hematologic system that are clinically ...

    • A genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer at 2q31 and 8q24 

      Goode, Ellen L; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Song, Honglin; Ramus, Susan J; Notaridou, Maria; Lawrenson, Kate; Widschwendter, Martin; Vierkant, Robert A; Larson, Melissa C; Kjaer, Susanne K; Birrer, Michael James; Berchuck, Andrew; Schildkraut, Joellen; Tomlinson, Ian; Kiemeney, Lambertus A; Cook, Linda S; Gronwald, Jacek; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Gore, Martin E; Campbell, Ian; Whittemore, Alice S; Sutphen, Rebecca; Phelan, Catherine; Anton-Culver, Hoda; Pearce, Celeste Leigh; Lambrechts, Diether; Rossing, Mary Anne; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Moysich, Kirsten B; Goodman, Marc T; Dörk, Thilo; Nevanlinna, Heli; Ness, Roberta B; Rafnar, Thorunn; Hogdall, Claus; Hogdall, Estrid; Fridley, Brooke L; Cunningham, Julie M; Sieh, Weiva; McGuire, Valerie; Godwin, Andrew K; Cramer, Daniel William; Hernandez, Dena; Levine, Douglas; Lu, Karen; Iversen, Edwin S; Palmieri, Rachel T; Houlston, Richard; van Altena, Anne M; Aben, Katja K H; Massuger, Leon F A G; Brooks-Wilson, Angela; Kelemen, Linda E; Le, Nhu D; Jakubowska, Anna; Lubinski, Jan; Medrek, Krzysztof; Stafford, Anne; Easton, Douglas F; Tyrer, Jonathan; Bolton, Kelly L; Harrington, Patricia; Eccles, Diana; Chen, Ann; Molina, Ashley N; Davila, Barbara N; Arango, Hector; Tsai, Ya-Yu; Chen, Zhihua; Risch, Harvey A; McLaughlin, John; Narod, Steven A; Ziogas, Argyrios; Brewster, Wendy; Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra; Menon, Usha; Wu, Anna H; Stram, Daniel O; Pike, Malcolm C; Beesley, Jonathan; Webb, Penelope M; Chen, Xiaoqing; Ekici, Arif B; Thiel, Falk C; Beckmann, Matthias W; Yang, Hannah; Wentzensen, Nicolas; Lissowska, Jolanta; Fasching, Peter A; Despierre, Evelyn; Amant, Frederic; Vergote, Ignace; Doherty, Jennifer; Hein, Rebecca; Wang-Gohrke, Shan; Lurie, Galina; Carney, Michael E; Thompson, Pamela J; Runnebaum, Ingo; Hillemanns, Peter; Dürst, Matthias; Antonenkova, Natalia; Bogdanova, Natalia; Leminen, Arto; Butzow, Ralf; Heikkinen, Tuomas; Stefansson, Kari; Sulem, Patrick; Besenbacher, Sören; Sellers, Thomas A; Gayther, Simon A; Pharoah, Paul D P (Nature Publishing Group, 2010)
      Ovarian cancer (OC) accounts for more deaths than all other gynecological cancers combined. To identify common low-penetrance OC susceptibility genes, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 507,094 SNPs in ...

    • Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Two Susceptibility Loci for Osteosarcoma 

      Savage, Sharon A.; Mirabello, Lisa; Wang, Zhaoming; Gastier-Foster, Julie M.; Gorlick, Richard; Khanna, Chand; Flanagan, Adrienne M.; Tirabosco, Roberto; Andrulis, Irene L.; Wunder, Jay S.; Gokgoz, Nalan; Patiño-Garcia, Ana; Sierrasesúmaga, Luis; Lecanda, Fernando; Kurucu, Nilgün; Ilhan, Inci Ergurhan; Sari, Neriman; Serra, Massimo; Hattinger, Claudia; Picci, Piero; Spector, Logan; Barkauskas, Donald A.; Marina, Neyssa; de Toledo, Silvia Regina Caminada; Petrilli, Antonio S.; Amary, Maria Fernanda; Halai, Dina; Thomas, David M.; Douglass, Chester; Meltzer, Paul S.; Jacobs, Kevin; Chung, Charles C.; Berndt, Sonja I.; Purdue, Mark P.; Caporaso, Neil E.; Tucker, Margaret; Rothman, Nathaniel; Landi, Maria Teresa; Silverman, Debra T.; Kraft, Peter; Hunter, David J.; Malats, Nuria; Kogevinas, Manolis; Wacholder, Sholom; Troisi, Rebecca; Helman, Lee; Fraumeni, Joseph F.; Yeager, Meredith; Hoover, Robert N.; Chanock, Stephen J. (2013)
      Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone malignancy of adolescents and young adults. In order to better understand the genetic etiology of osteosarcoma, we performed a multi-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study Implicates Chromosome 9q21.31 as a Susceptibility Locus for Asthma in Mexican Children 

      Hancock, Dana B.; Romieu, Isabelle; Sienra-Monge, Juan-Jose; Chiu, Grace Y.; Li, Huiling; del Rio-Navarro, Blanca Estela; Willis-Owens, Saffron A. G.; Eng, Celeste; Chapela, Rocio; Burchard, Esteban G.; Tang, Hua; Sullivan, Patrick F.; London, Stephanie J.; Shi, Min; Wu, Hao; Weiss, Scott Tillman; Raby, Benjamin Alexander; Gao, Hong (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      Many candidate genes have been studied for asthma, but replication has varied. Novel candidate genes have been identified for various complex diseases using genome-wide association studies (GWASs). We conducted a GWAS in ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Results from the OCGAS 

      Mattheisen, Manuel; Samuels, Jack F.; Wang, Ying; Greenberg, Benjamin D.; Fyer, Abby J.; McCracken, James T.; Geller, Daniel A.; Murphy, Dennis L.; Knowles, James A.; Grados, Marco A.; Riddle, Mark A.; Rasmussen, Steven A.; McLaughlin, Nicole C.; Nurmi, Erica; Askland, Kathleen D.; Qin, Hai-De; Cullen, Bernadette A.; Piacentini, John; Pauls, David L.; Bienvenu, O. Joseph; Stewart, S. Evelyn; Liang, Kung-Yee; Goes, Fernando S.; Maher, Brion; Pulver, Ann E.; Shugart, Yin-Yao; Valle, David; Lange, Cristoph; Nestadt, Gerald (2014)
      Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric condition characterized by intrusive thoughts and urges and repetitive, intentional behaviors that cause significant distress and impair functioning. The OCD Collaborative ...

    • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa 

      Boraska, Vesna; Franklin, Christopher S; Floyd, James AB; Thornton, Laura M; Huckins, Laura M; Southam, Lorraine; Rayner, N William; Tachmazidou, Ioanna; Klump, Kelly L; Treasure, Janet; Lewis, Cathryn M; Schmidt, Ulrike; Tozzi, Federica; Kiezebrink, Kirsty; Hebebrand, Johannes; Gorwood, Philip; Adan, Roger AH; Kas, Martien JH; Favaro, Angela; Santonastaso, Paolo; Fernández-Aranda, Fernando; Gratacos, Monica; Rybakowski, Filip; Dmitrzak-Weglarz, Monika; Kaprio, Jaakko; Keski-Rahkonen, Anna; Raevuori, Anu; Van Furth, Eric F; Slof-Op t Landt, Margarita CT; Hudson, James I; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted; Knudsen, Gun Peggy S; Monteleone, Palmiero; Kaplan, Allan S; Karwautz, Andreas; Hakonarson, Hakon; Berrettini, Wade H; Guo, Yiran; Li, Dong; Schork, Nicholas J.; Komaki, Gen; Ando, Tetsuya; Inoko, Hidetoshi; Esko, Tõnu; Fischer, Krista; Männik, Katrin; Metspalu, Andres; Baker, Jessica H; Cone, Roger D; Dackor, Jennifer; DeSocio, Janiece E; Hilliard, Christopher E; O’Toole, Julie K; Pantel, Jacques; Szatkiewicz, Jin P; Taico, Chrysecolla; Zerwas, Stephanie; Trace, Sara E; Davis, Oliver SP; Helder, Sietske; Bühren, Katharina; Burghardt, Roland; de Zwaan, Martina; Egberts, Karin; Ehrlich, Stefan; Herpertz-Dahlmann, Beate; Herzog, Wolfgang; Imgart, Hartmut; Scherag, André; Scherag, Susann; Zipfel, Stephan; Boni, Claudette; Ramoz, Nicolas; Versini, Audrey; Brandys, Marek K; Danner, Unna N; de Kovel, Carolien; Hendriks, Judith; Koeleman, Bobby PC; Ophoff, Roel A; Strengman, Eric; van Elburg, Annemarie A; Bruson, Alice; Clementi, Maurizio; Degortes, Daniela; Forzan, Monica; Tenconi, Elena; Docampo, Elisa; Escaramís, Geòrgia; Jiménez-Murcia, Susana; Lissowska, Jolanta; Rajewski, Andrzej; Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Neonila; Slopien, Agnieszka; Hauser, Joanna; Karhunen, Leila; Meulenbelt, Ingrid; Slagboom, P Eline; Tortorella, Alfonso; Maj, Mario; Dedoussis, George; Dikeos, Dimitris; Gonidakis, Fragiskos; Tziouvas, Konstantinos; Tsitsika, Artemis; Papezova, Hana; Slachtova, Lenka; Martaskova, Debora; Kennedy, James L.; Levitan, Robert D.; Yilmaz, Zeynep; Huemer, Julia; Koubek, Doris; Merl, Elisabeth; Wagner, Gudrun; Lichtenstein, Paul; Breen, Gerome; Cohen-Woods, Sarah; Farmer, Anne; McGuffin, Peter; Cichon, Sven; Giegling, Ina; Herms, Stefan; Rujescu, Dan; Schreiber, Stefan; Wichmann, H-Erich; Dina, Christian; Sladek, Rob; Gambaro, Giovanni; Soranzo, Nicole; Julia, Antonio; Marsal, Sara; Rabionet, Raquel; Gaborieau, Valerie; Dick, Danielle M; Palotie, Aarno; Ripatti, Samuli; Widén, Elisabeth; Andreassen, Ole A; Espeseth, Thomas; Lundervold, Astri; Reinvang, Ivar; Steen, Vidar M; Le Hellard, Stephanie; Mattingsdal, Morten; Ntalla, Ioanna; Bencko, Vladimir; Foretova, Lenka; Janout, Vladimir; Navratilova, Marie; Gallinger, Steven; Pinto, Dalila; Scherer, Stephen; Aschauer, Harald; Carlberg, Laura; Schosser, Alexandra; Alfredsson, Lars; Ding, Bo; Klareskog, Lars; Padyukov, Leonid; Finan, Chris; Kalsi, Gursharan; Roberts, Marion; Logan, Darren W; Peltonen, Leena; Ritchie, Graham RS; Barrett, Jeffrey C; Estivill, Xavier; Hinney, Anke; Sullivan, Patrick F; Collier, David A; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Bulik, Cynthia M (2013)
      Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex and heritable eating disorder characterized by dangerously low body weight. Neither candidate gene studies nor an initial genome wide association study (GWAS) have yielded significant and ...

    • Genome-wide association study of antisocial personality disorder 

      Rautiainen, M-R; Paunio, T; Repo-Tiihonen, E; Tiihonen, J; Virkkunen, M; Ollila, H M; Sulkava, S; Jolanki, O; Palotie, A (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      The pathophysiology of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) remains unclear. Although the most consistent biological finding is reduced grey matter volume in the frontal cortex, about 50% of the total liability to ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study of Blood Pressure Extremes Identifies Variant near UMOD Associated with Hypertension 

      Padmanabhan, Sandosh; Melander, Olle; Johnson, Toby; Di Blasio, Anna Maria; Lee, Wai K.; Gentilini, Davide; Hastie, Claire E.; Menni, Cristina; Monti, Maria Cristina; Delles, Christian; Laing, Stewart; Corso, Barbara; Navis, Gerjan; Kwakernaak, Arjan J.; van der Harst, Pim; Bochud, Murielle; Maillard, Marc; Burnier, Michel; Hedner, Thomas; Kjeldsen, Sverre; Wahlstrand, Björn; Sjögren, Marketa; Fava, Cristiano; Montagnana, Martina; Danese, Elisa; Torffvit, Ole; Hedblad, Bo; Snieder, Harold; Brown, Morris; Samani, Nilesh J.; Farrall, Martin; Cesana, Giancarlo; Mancia, Giuseppe; Signorini, Stefano; Grassi, Guido; Eyheramendy, Susana; Wichmann, H. Erich; Laan, Maris; Strachan, David P.; Sever, Peter; Shields, Denis Colm; Stanton, Alice; Vollenweider, Peter; Teumer, Alexander; Völzke, Henry; Rettig, Rainer; Soranzo, Nicole; Spector, Timothy D.; Lucas, Gavin; Kathiresan, Sekar; Siscovick, David S.; Luan, Jian'an; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Penninx, Brenda W.; Nolte, Ilja M.; McBride, Martin; Miller, William H.; Nicklin, Stuart A.; Graham, Delyth; Pell, Jill P.; Sattar, Naveed; Welsh, Paul; Munroe, Patricia; Caulfield, Mark J.; Zanchetti, Alberto; Dominiczak, Anna F.; Schork, Nicholas J.; Connell, John M.C.; Newton-Cheh, Christopher Holmes; Arora, Pankaj; Feng, Zhang; Baker, Andrew H.; McDonald, Robert A.; Global BPgen Consortium (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Hypertension is a heritable and major contributor to the global burden of disease. The sum of rare and common genetic variants robustly identified so far explain only 1%–2% of the population variation in BP and hypertension. ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study of Circulating Estradiol, Testosterone, and Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin in Postmenopausal Women 

      Prescott, Jennifer; Thompson, Deborah J.; Kraft, Peter; Chanock, Stephen J.; Audley, Tina; Brown, Judith; Leyland, Jean; Folkerd, Elizabeth; Doody, Deborah; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Hunter, David J.; Jacobs, Kevin B.; Dowsett, Mitch; Cox, David G.; Easton, Douglas F.; De Vivo, Immaculata (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified common genetic variants that contribute to breast cancer risk. Discovering additional variants has become difficult, as power to detect variants of weaker ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study of Circulating Vitamin D Levels 

      Ahn, Jiyoung; Yu, Kai; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael; McCullough, Marjorie L.; Gallicchio, Lisa; Jacobs, Eric J.; Helzlsouer, Kathy; Jacobs, Kevin B.; Li, Qizhai; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Purdue, Mark; Virtamo, Jarmo; Horst, Ronald; Chanock, Stephen; Hayes, Richard B.; Kraft, Peter; Albanes, Demetrius; Simon, Kelly Claire; Ascherio, Alberto B.; Wheeler, William; Hunter, David J. (Oxford University Press, 2010)
      The primary circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxy-vitamin D [25(OH)D], is associated with multiple medical outcomes, including rickets, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis and cancer. In a genome-wide association study ...

    • A genome-wide association study of early menopause and the combined impact of identified variants 

      Perry, John R. B.; Corre, Tanguy; Esko, Tõnu; Chasman, Daniel Ian; Fischer, Krista; Franceschini, Nora; He, Chunyan; Kutalik, Zoltan; Mangino, Massimo; Rose, Lynda M.; Vernon Smith, Albert; Stolk, Lisette; Sulem, Patrick; Weedon, Michael N.; Zhuang, Wei V.; Arnold, Alice; Ashworth, Alan; Bergmann, Sven; Buring, Julie Elizabeth; Burri, Andrea; Chen, Constance; Cornelis, Marilyn; Couper, David J.; Goodarzi, Mark O.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Harris, Tamara; Hofman, Albert; Jones, Michael; Kraft, Phillip L.; Launer, Lenore; Laven, Joop S. E.; Li, Guoan; McKnight, Barbara; Masciullo, Corrado; Milani, Lili; Orr, Nicholas; Psaty, Bruce M.; Ridker, Paul M.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Sala, Cinzia; Salumets, Andres; Schoemaker, Minouk; Traglia, Michela; Waeber, Gérard; Chanock, Stephen J.; Demerath, Ellen W.; Garcia, Melissa; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Hu, Frank B.; Hunter, David J.; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Metspalu, Andres; Montgomery, Grant W.; Murabito, Joanne M.; Newman, Anne B.; Ong, Ken K.; Spector, Tim D.; Stefansson, Kari; Swerdlow, Anthony J.; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; van Dam, Rob M.; Uitterlinden, André G.; Visser, Jenny A.; Vollenweider, Peter; Toniolo, Daniela; Murray, Anna (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Early menopause (EM) affects up to 10% of the female population, reducing reproductive lifespan considerably. Currently, it constitutes the leading cause of infertility in the western world, affecting mainly those women ...