Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height
- Jian Yang, B. Benyamin, P. Visscher
- BiologyNature Genetics
- 1 July 2010
Evidence is provided that the remaining heritability is due to incomplete linkage disequilibrium between causal variants and genotyped SNPs, exacerbated by causal variants having lower minor allele frequency than the SNPs explored to date.
A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins
- P. Turnbaugh, M. Hamady, J. Gordon
- BiologyNature
- 24 October 2008
The faecal microbial communities of adult female monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs concordant for leanness or obesity, and their mothers are characterized to address how host genotype, environmental exposure and host adiposity influence the gut microbiome.
Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography
- Tanya Yatsunenko, F. Rey, J. Gordon
- Biology, MedicineNature
- 22 March 2012
The need to consider the microbiome when evaluating human development, nutritional needs, physiological variations and the impact of westernization is underscored, as distinctive features of the functional maturation of the gut microbiome are evident in early infancy as well as adulthood.
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
- A. Locke, Bratati Kahali, E. Speliotes
- BiologyNature
- 11 February 2015
A genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility.
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
- E. Speliotes, C. Willer, R. Loos
- Biology, Medicine
- 2010
18 new loci associated with body mass index are identified, one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B, and genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height
- A. Wood, T. Esko, T. Frayling
- BiologyNature Genetics
- 8 September 2014
The results indicate a genetic architecture for human height that is characterized by a very large but finite number of causal variants, including mTOR, osteoglycin and binding of hyaluronic acid.
Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression
- N. Wray, S. Ripke, P. Sullivan
- PsychologyNature Genetics
- 17 February 2018
A genome-wide association meta-analysis of individuals with clinically assessed or self-reported depression identifies 44 independent and significant loci and finds important relationships of genetic risk for major depression with educational attainment, body mass, and schizophrenia.
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
- H. Lango Allen, K. Estrada, J. Hirschhorn
- BiologyNature
- 10 August 2010
It is shown that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait, and indicates that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways.
Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use
- Mengzhen Liu, Yu Jiang, S. Vrieze
- MedicineNature Genetics
- 7 November 2018
Evidence is reported for the involvement of many systems in tobacco and alcohol use, including genes involved in nicotinic, dopaminergic, and glutamatergic neurotransmission, which provide a solid starting point to evaluate the effects of these loci in model organisms and more precise substance use measures.
Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment
- A. Okbay, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, D. Benjamin
- Biology, PsychologyNature
- 31 March 2016
Because educational attainment is measured in large numbers of individuals, it will continue to be useful as a proxy phenotype in efforts to characterize the genetic influences of related phenotypes, including cognition and neuropsychiatric diseases.
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