• Mendelian randomization for studying the effects of perturbing drug targets 

      Gill, Dipender; Georgakis, Marios K.; Walker, Venexia M.; Schmidt, Amand F.; Gkatzionis, Apostolos; Freitag, Daniel F.; Finan, Chris; Hingorani, Aroon D.; Howson, Joanna M.M.; Burgess, Stephen; Swerdlow, Daniel I.; Davey Smith, George; Holmes, Michael V.; Dichgans, Martin; Scott, Robert A.; Zheng, Jie; Psaty, Bruce M.; Davies, Neil Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Drugs whose targets have genetic evidence to support efficacy and safety are more likely to be approved after clinical development. In this paper, we provide an overview of how natural sequence variation in the genes that ...
    • Relationship between Blood Pressure and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Linear and Nonlinear Mendelian Randomization Analyses 

      Malik, Rainer; Georgakis, Marios K.; Vujkovic, Marijana; Damrauer, Scott M.; Elliott, Paul; Karhunen, Ville; Giontella, Alice; Fava, Cristiano; Hellwege, Jacklyn N.; Shuey, Megan M.; Edwards, Todd L.; Rogne, Tormod; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Burgess, Stephen; Dichgans, Martin; Gill, Dipender (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Observational studies exploring whether there is a nonlinear effect of blood pressure on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk are hindered by confounding. This limitation can be overcome by leveraging randomly allocated genetic ...
    • Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries 

      Mishra, Aniket; Malik, Rainer; Hachiya, Tsuyoshi; Jürgenson, Tuuli; Namba, Shinichi; Posner, Daniel C.; Kamanu, Frederick K.; Koido, Masaru; Le Grand, Quentin; Shi, Mingyang; He, Yunye; Georgakis, Marios K.; Caro, Ilana; Krebs, Kristine; Liaw, Yi-Ching; Vaura, Felix C.; Lin, Kuang; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Srinivasasainagendra, Vinodh; Parodi, Livia; Bae, Hee-Joon; Chauhan, Ganesh; Tomppo, Liisa; Akinyemi, Rufus; Roshchupkin, Gennady V.; Habib, Naomi; Jee, Yon Ho; Thomassen, Jesper Qvist; Abedi, Vida; Cárcel-Márquez, Jara; Nygaard, Marianne; Leonard, Hampton L.; Yang, Chaojie; Yonova-Doing, Ekaterina; Knol, Maria J.; Lewis, Adam J.; Judy, Renae L.; Ago, Tetsuro; Amouyel, Philippe; Armstrong, Nicole D.; Bakker, Mark K.; Bartz, Traci M.; Bennett, David A.; Bis, Joshua C.; Bordes, Constance; Børte, Sigrid; Cain, Anael; Ridker, Paul M.; Cho, Kelly; Chen, Zhengming; Cruchaga, Carlos; Cole, John W.; de Jager, Phil L.; de Cid, Rafael; Endres, Matthias; Ferreira, Leslie E.; Geerlings, Mirjam I.; Gasca, Natalie C.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Hata, Jun; He, Jing; Heath, Alicia K.; Ho, Yuk-Lam; Havulinna, Aki S.; Hopewell, Jemma C.; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I.; Inouye, Michael; Jacob, Mina A.; Jeon, Christina E.; Jern, Christina; Kamouchi, Masahiro; Keene, Keith L.; Kitazono, Takanari; Kittner, Steven J.; Konuma, Takahiro; Kumar, Amit; Lacaze, Paul; Launer, Lenore J.; Lee, Keon-Joo; Lepik, Kaido; Li, Jiang; Li, Liming; Manichaikul, Ani; Markus, Hugh S.; Marston, Nicholas A.; Meitinger, Thomas; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Montellano, Felipe A.; Morisaki, Takayuki; Mosley, Thomas H.; Nalls, Mike A.; Nordestgaard, Børge G; O'Donnell, Martin J.; Okada, Yukinori; Onland-Moret, N Charlotte; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Peters, Annette; Psaty, Bruce M.; Rich, Stephen S.; Rosand, Jonathan; Sabatine, Marc S.; Sacco, Ralph L.; Saleheen, Danish; Sandset, Else Charlotte; Salomaa, Veikko; Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan; Sasaki, Makoto; Satizabal, Claudia L.; Schmidt, Carsten O.; Shimizu, Atsushi; Smith, Nicholas L.; Sloane, Kelly L.; Sutoh, Yoichi; Sun, Yan V.; Tanno, Kozo; Tiedt, Steffen; Tatlisumak, Turgut; Torres-Aguila, Nuria P.; Tiwari, Hemant K.; Trégouët, David-Alexandre; Trompet, Stella; Tuladhar, Anil Man; Tybjærg-Hansen, Anne; van Vugt, Marion; Vibo, Riina; Verma, Shefali S.; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Wennberg, Patrik; Woo, Daniel; Wilson, Peter W F; Xu, Huichun; Yang, Qiong; Yoon, Kyungheon; Millwood, Iona Y.; Gieger, Christian; Ninomiya, Toshiharu; Grabe, Hans J.; Jukema, J Wouter; Rissanen, Ina L.; Strbian, Daniel; Kim, Young Jin; Chen, Pei-Hsin; Mayerhofer, Ernst; Howson, Joanna M M; Irvin, Marguerite R.; Adams, Hieab; Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; Christensen, Kaare; Ikram, Mohammad A.; Rundek, Tatjana; Worrall, Bradford B.; Lathrop, G Mark; Riaz, Moeen; Simonsick, Eleanor M.; Kõrv, Janika; França, Paulo H C; Zand, Ramin; Prasad, Kameshwar; Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth; de Leeuw, Frank-Erik; Liman, Thomas; Haeusler, Karl Georg; Ruigrok, Ynte M.; Heuschmann, Peter Ulrich; Longstreth, W.T.; Jung, Keum Ji; Bastarache, Lisa; Paré, Guillaume; Damrauer, Scott M.; Chasman, Daniel I.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Anderson, Christopher D.; Zwart, John Anker Henrik; Niiranen, Teemu J.; Fornage, Myriam; Liaw, Yung-Po; Seshadri, Sudha; Fernández-Cadenas, Israel; Walters, Robin G.; Ruff, Christian T.; Owolabi, Mayowa O.; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Milani, Lili; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Dichgans, Martin; Debette, Stephanie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke — the second leading cause of death worldwide — were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry1,2. Here, in cross-ancestry GWAS meta-analyses of ...