African American ancestry study identifies new lung cancer risk factors
Cancer Despite having lower smoking habits than other groups in the U.S., Black Americans are more likely to…
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of human olfactory identification discovers sex-specific and sex-differential genetic variants
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SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter
Study Population The UKB is a prospective cohort study that has collected extensive phenotypic and genetic data from…
Psychiatric Disorders and Brain Structure Connected via Genetic Mapping
Credit: Floaria Bicher / iStock / Getty Images Plus Researchers have long hypothesized that the genes influencing the…
LDAK-KVIK performs fast and powerful mixed-model association analysis of quantitative and binary phenotypes
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Genetic Variants Linked to Frailty Unlock Aging-Related Therapies
Aging is a highly complex process with substantial heterogeneity in health trajectories between individuals. Frailty is a condition…
Uncovering the multivariate genetic architecture of frailty with genomic structural equation modeling
Fogg, C. et al. The dynamics of frailty development and progression in older adults in primary care in…
Towards improved fine-mapping of candidate causal variants
Visscher, P. M. et al. 10 years of GWAS discovery: biology, function, and translation. Am. J. Hum. Genet.…
Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering
Yairi, E. & Ambrose, N. Epidemiology of stuttering: 21st century advances. J. Fluen. Disord. 38, 66–87 (2013). Google…