Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Brainstorm Consortium, V Anttila, B Bulik-Sullivan… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Brain disorders may exhibit shared symptoms and substantial
epidemiological comorbidity, inciting debate about their etiologic overlap. However, detailed …

Predictors of mortality in hospitalized COVID‐19 patients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

W Tian, W Jiang, J Yao, CJ Nicholson… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mortality rates of coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) continue to rise across the world.
Information regarding the predictors of mortality in patients with COVID‐19 remains scarce …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in the lysyl oxidase (LOX) gene is associated with keratoconus in family-based and case-control studies

Y Bykhovskaya, X Li, I Epifantseva… - … & visual science, 2012 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: Keratoconus is a bilateral noninflammatory progressive corneal disorder with
complex genetic inheritance and a common cause for cornea transplantation in young …

Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

L Jostins, S Ripke, RK Weersma, RH Duerr… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two common forms of inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD), affect over 2.5 million people of European ancestry, with rising prevalence in other …

Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

JC Lambert, CA Ibrahim-Verbaas, D Harold, AC Naj… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Eleven susceptibility loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) were identified by
previous studies; however, a large portion of the genetic risk for this disease remains …

Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

JC Barrett, S Hansoul, DL Nicolae, JH Cho, RH Duerr… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Several risk factors for Crohn's disease have been identified in recent genome-wide
association studies. To advance gene discovery further, we combined data from three …

Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

A Franke, DPB McGovern, JC Barrett, K Wang… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
We undertook a meta-analysis of six Crohn's disease genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) comprising 6,333 affected individuals (cases) and 15,056 controls and followed up …

Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

BW Kunkle, B Grenier-Boley, R Sims, JC Bis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially
driven by genetics. To identify LOAD risk loci, we performed a large genome-wide …

A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene

RH Duerr, KD Taylor, SR Brant, JD Rioux… - science, 2006 - science.org
The inflammatory bowel diseases Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are common,
chronic disorders that cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, and gastrointestinal bleeding. To …

Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47

CA Anderson, G Boucher, CW Lees, A Franke… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies and candidate gene studies in ulcerative colitis have
identified 18 susceptibility loci. We conducted a meta-analysis of six ulcerative colitis …