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    • Genome-wide analysis reveals mechanisms modulating autophagy in normal brain aging and in Alzheimer's disease 

      Lipinski, Marta M.; Zheng, Bin; Lu, Tao; Yan, Zhenyu; Py, Bénédicte F.; Ng, Aylwin; Xavier, Ramnik J.; Li, Cheng; Yankner, Bruce A.; Scherzer, Clemens R.; Yuan, Junying (National Academy of Sciences, 2010)
      Dysregulation of autophagy, a cellular catabolic mechanism essential for degradation of misfolded proteins, has been implicated in multiple neurodegenerative diseases. However, the mechanisms that lead to the autophagy ...

    • Genome-wide analysis reveals TET-and TDG-mediated 5-methylcytosine oxidation dynamics 

      Shen, Li; Wu, Hao; Diep, Dinh; D’Alessio, Ana C; Fung, Alan; Zhang, Kun; Zhang, Yi (BioMed Central, 2013)

    • Genome-Wide and Candidate Gene Association Study of Cigarette Smoking Behaviors 

      Caporaso, Neil; Gu, Fangyi; Chatterjee, Nilanjan; Sheng-Chih, Jin; Yu, Kai; Yeager, Meredith; Jacobs, Kevin; Landi, Maria Teresa; Ziegler, Regina G.; Chanock, Stephen; Kraft, Peter; Bergen, Andrew W.; Chen, Constance; Wheeler, William; Hunter, David J.; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      The contribution of common genetic variation to one or more established smoking behaviors was investigated in a joint analysis of two genome wide association studies (GWAS) performed as part of the Cancer Genetic Markers ...

    • Genome-wide Association Analysis Identifies 14 New Risk Loci for Schizophrenia 

      Ripke, Stephan; O'Dushlaine, Colm; Chambert, Kimberly; Moran, Jennifer L; Kähler, Anna K; Akterin, Susanne; Bergen, Sarah; Collins, Ann L; Crowley, James J; Fromer, Menachem; Kim, Yunjung; Lee, Sang Hong; Magnusson, Patrik KE; Sanchez, Nick; Stahl, Eli A; Williams, Stephanie; Wray, Naomi R; Xia, Kai; Bettella, Francesco; Børglum, Anders D; Bulik-Sullivan, Brendan K; Cormican, Paul; Craddock, Nick; de Leeuw, Christiaan; Durmishi, Naser; Gill, Michael; Golimbet, Vera; Hamshere, Marian L; Holmans, Peter; Hougaard, David M; Kendler, Kenneth S; Lin, Kuang; Morris, Derek W; Mors, Ole; Mortensen, Preben B; Neale, Benjamin M; O'Neill, Francis A; Owen, Michael J; Milovancevic, MilicaPejovic; Posthuma, Danielle; Powell, John; Richards, Alexander L; Riley, Brien P; Ruderfer, Douglas; Rujescu, Dan; Sigurdsson, Engilbert; Silagadze, Teimuraz; Smit, August B; Stefansson, Hreinn; Steinberg, Stacy; Suvisaari, Jaana; Tosato, Sarah; Verhage, Matthijs; Walters, James T; Bramon, Elvira; Corvin, Aiden P; O'Donovan, Michael C; Stefansson, Kari; Scolnick, Edward; Purcell, Shaun; McCarroll, Steve; Sklar, Pamela; Hultman, Christina M; Sullivan, Patrick F (2013)
      Schizophrenia is a heritable disorder with substantial public health impact. We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) for schizophrenia beginning with a Swedish national sample (5,001 cases, 6,243 ...

    • Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel loci for chronotype in 100,420 individuals from the UK Biobank 

      Lane, Jacqueline M.; Vlasac, Irma; Anderson, Simon G.; Kyle, Simon D.; Dixon, William G.; Bechtold, David A.; Gill, Shubhroz; Little, Max A.; Luik, Annemarie; Loudon, Andrew; Emsley, Richard; Scheer, Frank A. J. L.; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Redline, Susan; Ray, David W.; Rutter, Martin K.; Saxena, Richa (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Our sleep timing preference, or chronotype, is a manifestation of our internal biological clock. Variation in chronotype has been linked to sleep disorders, cognitive and physical performance, and chronic disease. Here we ...

    • Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2, ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open angle glaucoma 

      Cooke Bailey, Jessica N.; Loomis, Stephanie J.; Kang, Jae H.; Allingham, R. Rand; Gharahkhani, Puya; Khor, Chiea Chuen; Burdon, Kathryn P.; Aschard, Hugues; Chasman, Daniel I.; Igo, Robert P.; Hysi, Pirro G.; Glastonbury, Craig A.; Ashley-Koch, Allison; Brilliant, Murray; Brown, Andrew A.; Budenz, Donald L.; Buil, Alfonso; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Choi, Hyon; Christen, William G.; Curhan, Gary; De Vivo, Immaculata; Fingert, John H.; Foster, Paul J.; Fuchs, Charles; Gaasterland, Douglas; Gaasterland, Terry; Hewitt, Alex W.; Hu, Frank; Hunter, David J.; Khawaja, Anthony P.; Lee, Richard K.; Li, Zheng; Lichter, Paul R.; Mackey, David A.; McGuffin, Peter; Mitchell, Paul; Moroi, Sayoko E.; Perera, Shamira A.; Pepper, Keating W.; Qi, Qibin; Realini, Tony; Richards, Julia E.; Ridker, Paul M; Rimm, Eric; Ritch, Robert; Ritchie, Marylyn; Schuman, Joel S.; Scott, William K.; Singh, Kuldev; Sit, Arthur J.; Song, Yeunjoo E.; Tamimi, Rulla M.; Topouzis, Fotis; Viswanathan, Ananth C.; Verma, Shefali Setia; Vollrath, Douglas; Wang, Jie Jin; Weisschuh, Nicole; Wissinger, Bernd; Wollstein, Gadi; Wong, Tien Y.; Yaspan, Brian L.; Zack, Donald J.; Zhang, Kang; Weinreb, Robert N.; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Small, Kerrin; Hammond, Christopher J.; Aung, Tin; Liu, Yutao; Vithana, Eranga N.; MacGregor, Stuart; Craig, Jamie E.; Kraft, Peter; Howell, Gareth; Hauser, Michael A.; Pasquale, Louis R.; Haines, Jonathan L.; Wiggs, Janey L. (2015)
      Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness world-wide. To identify new susceptibility loci, we meta-analyzed GWAS results from 8 independent studies from the United States (3,853 cases and 33,480 ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Variants Associated with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease That Have Distinct Effects on Metabolic Traits 

      Speliotes, Elizabeth K.; Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M.; Hernaez, Ruben; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Garcia, Melissa E.; Launer, Lenore J.; Nalls, Michael A.; Clark, Jeanne M.; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Butler, Johannah L.; Tomas, Marta; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Massaro, Joseph M.; Salomaa, Veikko; Schadt, Eric E.; Schwartz, Stephen M.; Siscovick, David S.; Voight, Benjamin F.; Feitosa, Mary F.; Harris, Tamara B.; Smith, Albert V.; Borecki, Ingrid B.; Wu, Jun; Kim, Lauren J.; Palmer, Cameron D.; Hoffmann, Udo; Sahani, Dushyant V.; Carr, J. Jeffrey; Fox, Caroline; Kao, W. H. Linda; Hirschhorn, Joel Naom; O'Donnell, Christopher Joseph; NASH CRN; GIANT Consortium; MAGIC Investigators (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) clusters in families, but the only known common genetic variants influencing risk are near PNPLA3. We sought to identify additional genetic variants influencing NAFLD using genome-wide ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Analysis in Asthma Subjects Identifies SPATS2L as a Novel Bronchodilator Response Gene 

      Himes, Blanca Elena; Jiang, Xiaofeng; Hu, Ruoxi; Wu, Ann Chen; Su, Jessica Ann Lasky; Klanderman, Barbara J.; Ziniti, John; Senter-Sylvia, Jody; Lima, John J.; Irvin, Charles G.; Peters, Stephen P.; Meyers, Deborah A.; Bleecker, Eugene R.; Kubo, Michiaki; Tamari, Mayumi; Nakamura, Yusuke; Szefler, Stanley J.; Lemanske, Robert F.; Zeiger, Robert S.; Strunk, Robert C.; Martinez, Fernando D.; Hanrahan, John P.; Koppelman, Gerard H.; Postma, Dirkje S.; Nieuwenhuis, Maartje A. E.; Vonk, Judith M.; Panettieri, Reynold A.; Markezich, Amy; Israel, Elliot; Carey, Vincent James; Tantisira, Kelan; Litonjua, Augusto Ampil; Lu, Quan; Weiss, Scott Tillman (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Bronchodilator response (BDR) is an important asthma phenotype that measures reversibility of airway obstruction by comparing lung function (i.e. FEV1) before and after the administration of a short-acting β2-agonist, the ...

    • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer 

      Michailidou, Kyriaki; Beesley, Jonathan; Lindstrom, Sara; Canisius, Sander; Dennis, Joe; Lush, Michael; Maranian, Mel J; Bolla, Manjeet K; Wang, Qin; Shah, Mitul; Perkins, Barbara J; Czene, Kamila; Eriksson, Mikael; Darabi, Hatef; Brand, Judith S; Bojesen, Stig E; Nordestgaard, Børge G; Flyger, Henrik; Nielsen, Sune F; Rahman, Nazneen; Turnbull, Clare; Fletcher, Olivia; Peto, Julian; Gibson, Lorna; dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Flesch-Janys, Dieter; Rudolph, Anja; Eilber, Ursula; Behrens, Sabine; Nevanlinna, Heli; Muranen, Taru A; Aittomäki, Kristiina; Blomqvist, Carl; Khan, Sofia; Aaltonen, Kirsimari; Ahsan, Habibul; Kibriya, Muhammad G; Whittemore, Alice S; John, Esther M; Malone, Kathleen E; Gammon, Marilie D; Santella, Regina M; Ursin, Giske; Makalic, Enes; Schmidt, Daniel F; Casey, Graham; Hunter, David J; Gapstur, Susan M; Gaudet, Mia M; Diver, W Ryan; Haiman, Christopher A; Schumacher, Fredrick; Henderson, Brian E; Le Marchand, Loic; Berg, Christine D; Chanock, Stephen; Figueroa, Jonine; Hoover, Robert N; Lambrechts, Diether; Neven, Patrick; Wildiers, Hans; van Limbergen, Erik; Schmidt, Marjanka K; Broeks, Annegien; Verhoef, Senno; Cornelissen, Sten; Couch, Fergus J; Olson, Janet E; Hallberg, Emily; Vachon, Celine; Waisfisz, Quinten; Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne; Adank, Muriel A; van der Luijt, Rob B; Li, Jingmei; Liu, Jianjun; Humphreys, Keith; Kang, Daehee; Choi, Ji-Yeob; Park, Sue K; Yoo, Keun-Young; Matsuo, Keitaro; Ito, Hidemi; Iwata, Hiroji; Tajima, Kazuo; Guénel, Pascal; Truong, Thérèse; Mulot, Claire; Sanchez, Marie; Burwinkel, Barbara; Marme, Frederik; Surowy, Harald; Sohn, Christof; Wu, Anna H; Tseng, Chiu-chen; Van Den Berg, David; Stram, Daniel O; González-Neira, Anna; Benitez, Javier; Zamora, M Pilar; Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Lu, Wei; Gao, Yu-Tang; Cai, Hui; Cox, Angela; Cross, Simon S; Reed, Malcolm WR; Andrulis, Irene L; Knight, Julia A; Glendon, Gord; Mulligan, Anna Marie; Sawyer, Elinor J; Tomlinson, Ian; Kerin, Michael J; Miller, Nicola; Lindblom, Annika; Margolin, Sara; Teo, Soo Hwang; Yip, Cheng Har; Taib, Nur Aishah Mohd; TAN, Gie-Hooi; Hooning, Maartje J; Hollestelle, Antoinette; Martens, John WM; Collée, J Margriet; Blot, William; Signorello, Lisa B; Cai, Qiuyin; Hopper, John L; Southey, Melissa C; Tsimiklis, Helen; Apicella, Carmel; Shen, Chen-Yang; Hsiung, Chia-Ni; Wu, Pei-Ei; Hou, Ming-Feng; Kristensen, Vessela N; Nord, Silje; Alnaes, Grethe I Grenaker; Giles, Graham G; Milne, Roger L; McLean, Catriona; Canzian, Federico; Trichopoulos, Dmitrios; Peeters, Petra; Lund, Eiliv; Sund, Malin; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Gunter, Marc J; Palli, Domenico; Mortensen, Lotte Maxild; Dossus, Laure; Huerta, Jose-Maria; Meindl, Alfons; Schmutzler, Rita K; Sutter, Christian; Yang, Rongxi; Muir, Kenneth; Lophatananon, Artitaya; Stewart-Brown, Sarah; Siriwanarangsan, Pornthep; Hartman, Mikael; Miao, Hui; Chia, Kee Seng; Chan, Ching Wan; Fasching, Peter A; Hein, Alexander; Beckmann, Matthias W; Haeberle, Lothar; Brenner, Hermann; Dieffenbach, Aida Karina; Arndt, Volker; Stegmaier, Christa; Ashworth, Alan; Orr, Nick; Schoemaker, Minouk J; Swerdlow, Anthony J; Brinton, Louise; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Zheng, Wei; Halverson, Sandra L; Shrubsole, Martha; Long, Jirong; Goldberg, Mark S; Labrèche, France; Dumont, Martine; Winqvist, Robert; Pylkäs, Katri; Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja; Grip, Mervi; Brauch, Hiltrud; Hamann, Ute; Brüning, Thomas; Radice, Paolo; Peterlongo, Paolo; Manoukian, Siranoush; Bernard, Loris; Bogdanova, Natalia V; Dörk, Thilo; Mannermaa, Arto; Kataja, Vesa; Kosma, Veli-Matti; Hartikainen, Jaana M; Devilee, Peter; Tollenaar, Robert AEM; Seynaeve, Caroline; Van Asperen, Christi J; Jakubowska, Anna; Lubinski, Jan; Jaworska, Katarzyna; Huzarski, Tomasz; Sangrajrang, Suleeporn; Gaborieau, Valerie; Brennan, Paul; McKay, James; Slager, Susan; Toland, Amanda E; Ambrosone, Christine B; Yannoukakos, Drakoulis; Kabisch, Maria; Torres, Diana; Neuhausen, Susan L; Anton-Culver, Hoda; Luccarini, Craig; Baynes, Caroline; Ahmed, Shahana; Healey, Catherine S; Tessier, Daniel C; Vincent, Daniel; Bacot, Francois; Pita, Guillermo; Alonso, M Rosario; Álvarez, Nuria; Herrero, Daniel; Simard, Jacques; Pharoah, Paul PDP; Kraft, Peter; Dunning, Alison M; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Hall, Per; Easton, Douglas F (2015)
      Genome wide association studies (GWAS) and large scale replication studies have identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining ~14% of the familial risk of the disease. To identify new ...

    • Genome-wide association analysis on normal hearing function identifies PCDH20 and SLC28A3 as candidates for hearing function and loss 

      Vuckovic, Dragana; Dawson, Sally; Scheffer, Deborah I.; Rantanen, Taina; Morgan, Anna; Di Stazio, Mariateresa; Vozzi, Diego; Nutile, Teresa; Concas, Maria P.; Biino, Ginevra; Nolan, Lisa; Bahl, Aileen; Loukola, Anu; Viljanen, Anne; Davis, Adrian; Ciullo, Marina; Corey, David P.; Pirastu, Mario; Gasparini, Paolo; Girotto, Giorgia (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Hearing loss and individual differences in normal hearing both have a substantial genetic basis. Although many new genes contributing to deafness have been identified, very little is known about genes/variants modulating ...

    • Genome-Wide Association and Functional Follow-Up Reveals New Loci for Kidney Function 

      Pattaro, Cristian; Köttgen, Anna; Teumer, Alexander; Böger, Carsten A.; Fuchsberger, Christian; Olden, Matthias; Chen, Ming-Huei; Tin, Adrienne; Taliun, Daniel; Li, Man; Gao, Xiaoyi; Gorski, Mathias; Yang, Qiong; Hundertmark, Claudia; Foster, Meredith C.; Glazer, Nicole; Isaacs, Aaron; Liu, Ching-Ti; Smith, Albert V.; O'Connell, Jeffrey R.; Struchalin, Maksim; Tanaka, Toshiko; Gierman, Hinco J.; Feitosa, Mary; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Atkinson, Elizabeth J.; Lohman, Kurt; Johansson, Åsa; Tönjes, Anke; Dehghan, Abbas; Chouraki, Vincent; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Sorice, Rossella; Kutalik, Zoltan; Lehtimäki, Terho; Esko, Tõnu; Deshmukh, Harshal; Ulivi, Sheila; Murgia, Federico; Trompet, Stella; Imboden, Medea; Kollerits, Barbara; Pistis, Giorgio; Harris, Tamara B.; Launer, Lenore J.; Aspelund, Thor; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Schmidt, Helena; Cavalieri, Margherita; Rao, Madhumathi; Demirkan, Ayse; Oostra, Ben A.; de Andrade, Mariza; Ding, Jingzhong; Andrews, Jeanette S.; Freedman, Barry I.; Koenig, Wolfgang; Illig, Thomas; Döring, Angela; Wichmann, H.-Erich; Kolcic, Ivana; Zemunik, Tatijana; Boban, Mladen; Minelli, Cosetta; Wheeler, Heather E.; Igl, Wilmar; Zaboli, Ghazal; Wild, Sarah H.; Wright, Alan F.; Campbell, Harry; Ellinghaus, David; Nöthlings, Ute; Jacobs, Gunnar; Biffar, Reiner; Endlich, Karlhans; Ernst, Florian; Homuth, Georg; Kroemer, Heyo K.; Nauck, Matthias; Stracke, Sylvia; Völker, Uwe; Völzke, Henry; Kovacs, Peter; Stumvoll, Michael; Mägi, Reedik; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Aulchenko, Yurii S.; Polasek, Ozren; Hastie, Nick; Vitart, Veronique; Helmer, Catherine; Wang, Jie Jin; Ruggiero, Daniela; Bergmann, Sven; Kähönen, Mika; Viikari, Jorma; Nikopensius, Tiit; Province, Michael; Ketkar, Shamika; Colhoun, Helen; Doney, Alex; Robino, Antonietta; Giulianini, Franco; Krämer, Bernhard K.; Portas, Laura; Ford, Ian; Buckley, Brendan M.; Adam, Martin; Thun, Gian-Andri; Paulweber, Bernhard; Haun, Margot; Sala, Cinzia; Metzger, Marie; Mitchell, Paul; Ciullo, Marina; Kim, Stuart K.; Vollenweider, Peter; Raitakari, Olli; Metspalu, Andres; Palmer, Colin; Gasparini, Paolo; Pirastu, Mario; Jukema, J. Wouter; Probst-Hensch, Nicole M.; Kronenberg, Florian; Toniolo, Daniela; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Coresh, Josef; Schmidt, Reinhold; Ferrucci, Luigi; Siscovick, David S.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Borecki, Ingrid; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Liu, Yongmei; Rudan, Igor; Gyllensten, Ulf; Wilson, James F.; Franke, Andre; Pramstaller, Peter P.; Rettig, Rainer; Prokopenko, Inga; Witteman, Jacqueline C. M.; Hayward, Caroline; Parsa, Afshin; Bochud, Murielle; Heid, Iris M.; Garnaas, Maija; O'Seaghdha, Conall; Li, Guo; Johnson, Andrew D.; Cornelis, Marilyn; Chu, Audrey Yu-lei; Hu, Frank B.; Turner, Stephen T.; Hofman, Albert; Curhan, Gary Craig; Ridker, Paul M.; Goessling, Wolfram; Chasman, Daniel Ian; Kao, W. H. Linda; Fox, Caroline (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important public health problem with a genetic component. We performed genome-wide association studies in up to 130,600 European ancestry participants overall, and stratified for key CKD ...

    • Genome-Wide Association and Linkage Analyses of Hemostatic Factors and Hematological Phenotypes in the Framingham Heart Study 

      Yang, Qiong; Kathiresan, Sekar; Lin, Jing-Ping; Tofler, Geoffrey H; O'Donnell, Christopher Joseph (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: Increased circulating levels of hemostatic factors as well as anemia have been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Known associations between hemostatic factors and sequence variants ...

    • Genome-Wide Association and Trans-ethnic Meta-Analysis for Advanced Diabetic Kidney Disease: Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (FIND) 

      Iyengar, Sudha K.; Sedor, John R.; Freedman, Barry I.; Kao, W. H. Linda; Kretzler, Matthias; Keller, Benjamin J.; Abboud, Hanna E.; Adler, Sharon G.; Best, Lyle G.; Bowden, Donald W.; Burlock, Allison; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Cole, Shelley A.; Comeau, Mary E.; Curtis, Jeffrey M.; Divers, Jasmin; Drechsler, Christiane; Duggirala, Ravi; Elston, Robert C.; Guo, Xiuqing; Huang, Huateng; Hoffmann, Michael Marcus; Howard, Barbara V.; Ipp, Eli; Kimmel, Paul L.; Klag, Michael J.; Knowler, William C.; Kohn, Orly F.; Leak, Tennille S.; Leehey, David J.; Li, Man; Malhotra, Alka; März, Winfried; Nair, Viji; Nelson, Robert G.; Nicholas, Susanne B.; O’Brien, Stephen J.; Pahl, Madeleine V.; Parekh, Rulan S.; Pezzolesi, Marcus G.; Rasooly, Rebekah S.; Rotimi, Charles N.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Schelling, Jeffrey R.; Seldin, Michael F.; Shah, Vallabh O.; Smiles, Adam M.; Smith, Michael W.; Taylor, Kent D.; Thameem, Farook; Thornley-Brown, Denyse P.; Truitt, Barbara J.; Wanner, Christoph; Weil, E. Jennifer; Winkler, Cheryl A.; Zager, Philip G.; Igo, Robert P.; Hanson, Robert L.; Langefeld, Carl D. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the most common etiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the industrialized world and accounts for much of the excess mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus. Approximately 45% of ...

    • Genome-Wide Association for Abdominal Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Reveals a Novel Locus for Visceral Fat in Women 

      Liu, Yongmei; White, Charles C.; Feitosa, Mary; Smith, Albert V.; Heard-Costa, Nancy; Lohman, Kurt; Foster, Meredith C.; Greenawalt, Danielle M.; Griffin, Paula; Ding, Jinghong; Newman, Anne B.; Tylavsky, Fran; Miljkovic, Iva; Kritchevsky, Stephen B.; Launer, Lenore; Garcia, Melissa; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Gudnason, Vilmunder; Harris, Tamara B.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Borecki, Ingrid B.; Fox, Caroline; Johnson, Andrew D.; Carr, Jeffrey J. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Body fat distribution, particularly centralized obesity, is associated with metabolic risk above and beyond total adiposity. We performed genome-wide association of abdominal adipose depots quantified using computed ...

    • A genome-wide association for kidney function and endocrine-related traits in the NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study 

      Hwang, Shih-Jen; Yang, Qiong; Meigs, James Benjamin; Pearce, Elizabeth N; Fox, Caroline (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and urinary albumin excretion (UAE) are markers of kidney function that are known to be heritable. Many endocrine conditions have strong familial components. We tested for ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Identifies Nine Common Variants Associated With Fasting Proinsulin Levels and Provides New Insights Into the Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes 

      Strawbridge, Rona J.; Dupuis, Josée; Prokopenko, Inga; Barker, Adam; Ahlqvist, Emma; Rybin, Denis; Petrie, John R.; Travers, Mary E.; Bouatia-Naji, Nabila; Dimas, Antigone S.; Nica, Alexandra; Wheeler, Eleanor; Chen, Han; Voight, Benjamin F.; Taneera, Jalal; Kanoni, Stavroula; Peden, John F.; Turrini, Fabiola; Gustafsson, Stefan; Zabena, Carina; Almgren, Peter; Barker, David J.P.; Barnes, Daniel; Dennison, Elaine M.; Eriksson, Johan G.; Eriksson, Per; Eury, Elodie; Folkersen, Lasse; Fox, Caroline; Frayling, Timothy M.; Goel, Anuj; Gu, Harvest F.; Horikoshi, Momoko; Isomaa, Bo; Jackson, Anne U.; Jameson, Karen A.; Kajantie, Eero; Kerr-Conte, Julie; Kuulasmaa, Teemu; Kuusisto, Johanna; Loos, Ruth J.F.; Luan, Jian'an; Makrilakis, Konstantinos; Manning, Alisa K; Martínez-Larrad, María Teresa; Narisu, Narisu; Nastase Mannila, Maria; Öhrvik, John; Osmond, Clive; Pascoe, Laura; Payne, Felicity; Sayer, Avan A.; Sennblad, Bengt; Silveira, Angela; Stančáková, Alena; Stirrups, Kathy; Swift, Amy J.; Syvänen, Ann-Christine; Tuomi, Tiinamaija; van 't Hooft, Ferdinand M.; Walker, Mark; Weedon, Michael N.; Xie, Weijia; Zethelius, Björn; Ongen, Halit; Mälarstig, Anders; Hopewell, Jemma C.; Saleheen, Danish; Chambers, John; Parish, Sarah; Danesh, John; Kooner, Jaspal; Östenson, Claes-Göran; Lind, Lars; Cooper, Cyrus C.; Serrano-Ríos, Manuel; Ferrannini, Ele; Forsen, Tom J.; Clarke, Robert; Franzosi, Maria Grazia; Seedorf, Udo; Watkins, Hugh; Froguel, Philippe; Johnson, Paul; Deloukas, Panos; Collins, Francis S.; Laakso, Markku; Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T.; Boehnke, Michael; McCarthy, Mark I.; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Groop, Leif; Pattou, François; Gloyn, Anna L.; Dedoussis, George V.; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Meigs, James Benjamin; Barroso, Inês; Watanabe, Richard M.; Ingelsson, Erik; Langenberg, Claudia; Hamsten, Anders; Florez, Jose Carlos (American Diabetes Association, 2011)
      OBJECTIVE: Proinsulin is a precursor of mature insulin and C-peptide. Higher circulating proinsulin levels are associated with impaired β-cell function, raised glucose levels, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes (T2D). ...

    • Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility 

      Landi, Maria Teresa; Bishop, D. Timothy; MacGregor, Stuart; Machiela, Mitchell J.; Stratigos, Alexander J.; Ghiorzo, Paola; Brossard, Myriam; Calista, Donato; Choi, Jiyeon; Fargnoli, Maria Concetta; Zhang, Tongwu; Rodolfo, Monica; Trower, Adam J.; Menin, Chiara; Martinez, Jacobo; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Song, Lei; Stefanaki, Irene; Scolyer, Richard; Yang, Rose; Goldstein, Alisa M.; Potrony, Miriam; Kypreou, Katerina P.; Pastorino, Lorenza; Queirolo, Paola; Pellegrini, Cristina; Cattaneo, Laura; Zawistowski, Matthew; Gimenez-Xavier, Pol; Rodriguez, Arantxa; Elefanti, Lisa; Manoukian, Siranoush; Rivoltini, Licia; Smith, Blair H.; Loizidou, Maria A.; Del Regno, Laura; Massi, Daniela; Mandala, Mario; Khosrotehrani, Kiarash; Akslen, Lars A.; Amos, Christopher I.; Andresen, Per A.; Avril, Marie-Françoise; Azizi, Esther; Soyer, H. Peter; Bataille, Veronique; Dalmasso, Bruna; Bowdler, Lisa M.; Burdon, Kathryn P.; Chen, Wei V.; Codd, Veryan; Craig, Jamie E.; Dębniak, Tadeusz; Falchi, Mario; Fang, Shenying; Friedman, Eitan; Simi, Sarah; Galan, Pilar; Garcia-Casado, Zaida; Gillanders, Elizabeth M.; Gordon, Scott; Green, Adele; Gruis, Nelleke A.; Hansson, Johan; Harland, Mark; Harris, Jessica; Helsing, Per; Henders, Anjali; Hočevar, Marko; Höiom, Veronica; Hunter, David; Ingvar, Christian; Kumar, Rajiv; Lang, Julie; Lathrop, G. Mark; Lee, Jeffrey E.; Li, Xin; Lubiński, Jan; Mackie, Rona M.; Malt, Maryrose; Malvehy, Josep; McAloney, Kerrie; Mohamdi, Hamida; Molven, Anders; Moses, Eric K.; Neale, Rachel E.; Novaković, Srdjan; Nyholt, Dale R.; Olsson, Håkan; Orr, Nicholas; Fritsche, Lars G.; Puig-Butille, Joan Anton; Qureshi, Abrar A.; Radford-Smith, Graham L.; Randerson-Moor, Juliette; Requena, Celia; Rowe, Casey; Samani, Nilesh J.; Sanna, Marianna; Schadendorf, Dirk; Schulze, Hans-Joachim; Simms, Lisa A.; Smithers, Mark; Song, Fengju; Swerdlow, Anthony J.; van der Stoep, Nienke; Kukutsch, Nicole A.; Visconti, Alessia; Wallace, Leanne; Ward, Sarah V.; Wheeler, Lawrie; Sturm, Richard A.; Hutchinson, Amy; Jones, Kristine; Malasky, Michael; Vogt, Aurelie; Zhou, Weiyin; Pooley, Karen A.; Elder, David E.; Han, Jiali; Hicks, Belynda; Hayward, Nicholas K.; Kanetsky, Peter A.; Brummett, Chad; Montgomery, Grant W.; Olsen, Catherine M.; Hayward, Caroline; Dunning, Alison M.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Mann, Graham J.; Long, Georgina; Pharoah, Paul D. P.; Easton, Douglas F.; Barrett, Jennifer H.; Cust, Anne E.; Abecasis, Goncalo; Duffy, David L.; Whiteman, David C.; Gogas, Helen; De Nicolo, Arcangela; Tucker, Margaret A.; Newton-Bishop, Julia A.; Peris, Ketty; Chanock, Stephen J.; Demenais, Florence; Brown, Kevin M.; Puig, Susana; Nagore, Eduardo; Shi, Jianxin; Iles, Mark M.; Law, Matthew H. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-04-27)

    • Genome-wide Association Meta-analysis Identifies New Endometriosis Risk Loci 

      Nyholt, Dale R.; Low, Siew-Kee; Anderson, Carl A.; Painter, Jodie N.; Uno, Satoko; Morris, Andrew P.; MacGregor, Stuart; Gordon, Scott D.; Henders, Anjali K.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Attia, John; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; McEvoy, Mark; Scott, Rodney J.; Kennedy, Stephen M; Treloar, Susan A.; Missmer, Stacey Ann; Adachi, Sosuke; Tanaka, Kenichi; Nakamura, Yusuke; Zondervan, Krina T.; Zembutsu, Hitoshi; Montgomery, Grant W. (2012)
      We conducted a genome-wide association (GWA) meta-analysis of 4,604 endometriosis cases and 9,393 controls of Japanese and European ancestry. We show that rs12700667 on chromosome 7p15.2, previously found in Europeans, ...

    • A Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis of Circulating Sex Hormone–Binding Globulin Reveals Multiple Loci Implicated in Sex Steroid Hormone Regulation 

      Coviello, Andrea D.; Haring, Robin; Wellons, Melissa; Vaidya, Dhananjay; Lehtimäki, Terho; Keildson, Sarah; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; He, Chunyan; Fornage, Myriam; Lagou, Vasiliki; Mangino, Massimo; Onland-Moret, N. Charlotte; Eriksson, Joel; Garcia, Melissa; Liu, Yong Mei; Koster, Annemarie; Lohman, Kurt; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Petersen, Ann-Kristin; Stolk, Lisette; Vandenput, Liesbeth; Wood, Andrew R.; Zhuang, Wei Vivian; Ruokonen, Aimo; Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa; Pouta, Anneli; Bandinelli, Stefania; Biffar, Reiner; Brabant, Georg; Chen, Yuhui; Cummings, Steven; Ferrucci, Luigi; Gunter, Marc J.; Martikainen, Hannu; Homuth, Georg; Illig, Thomas; Jansson, John-Olov; Karlsson, Magnus; Kettunen, Johannes; Liu, Jingmin; Ljunggren, Östen; Lorentzon, Mattias; Maggio, Marcello; Markus, Marcello R. P.; Mellström, Dan; Miljkovic, Iva; Mirel, Daniel; Morin Papunen, Laure; Peeters, Petra H. M.; Prokopenko, Inga; Raffel, Leslie; Reincke, Martin; Reiner, Alex P.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Schwartz, Stephen M.; Siscovick, David; Soranzo, Nicole; Stöckl, Doris; Uitterlinden, André G.; van Gils, Carla H.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Wichmann, H.-Erich; Zhai, Guangju; Bhasin, Shalender; Bidlingmaier, Martin; Chanock, Stephen J.; Harris, Tamara B.; Kähönen, Mika; Liu, Simin; Ouyang, Pamela; Spector, Tim D.; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Viikari, Jorma; Wallaschofski, Henri; McCarthy, Mark I.; Frayling, Timothy M.; Murray, Anna; Franks, Steve; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; de Jong, Frank H.; Raitakari, Olli; Teumer, Alexander; Ohlsson, Claes; Murabito, Joanne M.; Perry, John R. B.; Chen, Brian; Prescott, Jennifer; Cox, David G.; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Hofman, Albert; Johnson, Andrew D.; Karasik, David; Kiel, Douglas P.; Nelson, Sarah; Rexrode, Kathryn Marian; Tworoger, Shelley Slate; De Vivo, Immaculata; Hunter, David J.; Kraft, Peter (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a glycoprotein responsible for the transport and biologic availability of sex steroid hormones, primarily testosterone and estradiol. SHBG has been associated with chronic diseases ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Meta-analysis of Neuropathologic Features of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias 

      Beecham, Gary W.; Hamilton, Kara; Naj, Adam C.; Martin, Eden R.; Huentelman, Matt; Myers, Amanda J.; Corneveaux, Jason J.; Hardy, John; Vonsattel, Jean-Paul; Younkin, Steven G.; Bennett, David A.; De Jager, Philip L.; Larson, Eric B.; Crane, Paul K.; Kamboh, M. Ilyas; Kofler, Julia K.; Mash, Deborah C.; Duque, Linda; Gilbert, John R.; Gwirtsman, Harry; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Kramer, Patricia; Dickson, Dennis W.; Farrer, Lindsay A.; Frosch, Matthew P.; Ghetti, Bernardino; Haines, Jonathan L.; Hyman, Bradley T.; Kukull, Walter A.; Mayeux, Richard P.; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Schneider, Julie A.; Trojanowski, John Q.; Reiman, Eric M.; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Montine, Thomas J. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias are a major public health challenge and present a therapeutic imperative for which we need additional insight into molecular pathogenesis. We performed a genome-wide association ...