• Cross-Ancestry Investigation of Venous Thromboembolism Genomic Predictors 

      Thibord, Florian; Klarin, Derek; Brody, Jennifer A.; Chen, Ming-Huei; Levin, Michael G.; Chasman, Daniel I.; Goode, Ellen L.; Hveem, Kristian; Teder-Laving, Maris; Martinez-Perez, Angel; Aïssi, Dylan; Daian-Bacq, Delphine; Ito, Kaoru; Natarajan, Pradeep; Lutsey, Pamela L.; Nadkarni, Girish N.; de Vries, Paul S.; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Wolford, Brooke N.; Pattee, Jack W.; Kooperberg, Charles; Brækkan, Sigrid Kufaas; Li-Gao, Ruifang; Saut, Noemie; Sept, Corriene; Germain, Marine; Judy, Renae L.; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Ko, Darae; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Taylor, Kent D.; Giulianini, Franco; De Andrade, Mariza; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Boland, Anne; Empana, Jean-Philippe; Koyama, Satoshi; Gilliland, Thomas; Do, Ron; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Wang, Xin; Zhou, Wei; Manuel Soria, Jose; Carlos Souto, Juan; Pankratz, Nathan; Haessler, Jeffery; Hindberg, Kristian Dalsbø; Rosendaal, Frits R; Turman, Constance; Olaso, Robert; Kember, Rachel L.; Bartz, Traci M.; Lynch, Julie A.; Heckbert, Susan R.; Armasu, Sebastian M.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Smadja, David M.; Jouven, Xavier; Komuro, Issei; Clapham, Katharine R.; Loos, Ruth J F; Willer, Cristen J.; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Pankow, James S.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Morelli, Vania Maris; Ridker, Paul M.; Vlieg, Astrid van Hylckama; Deleuze, Jean-François; Kraft, Peter; Rader, Daniel J.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Emmerich, Joseph; Suchon, Pierre; Rich, Stephen S.; Vy, Ha My T; Tang, Weihong; Jackson, Rebecca D.; Hansen, John Bjarne; Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel; Kabrhel, Christopher; Trégouët, David-Alexandre; Damrauer, Scott M.; Johnson, Andrew D.; Smith, Nicholas L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a life-threatening vascular event with environmental and genetic determinants. Recent VTE genome-wide association studies (GWAS) meta-analyses involved nearly 30 000 VTE cases ...
    • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants 

      Aragam, Krishna G.; Jiang, Tao; Goel, Anuj; Kanoni, Stavroula; Wolford, Brooke N.; Atri, Deepak S.; Weeks, Elle M.; Wang, Minxian; Hindy, George; Zhou, Wei; Grace, Christopher; Roselli, Carolina; Marston, Nicholas A.; Kamanu, Frederick K.; Surakka, Ida; Venegas, Loreto Muñoz; Sherliker, Paul; Koyama, Satoshi; Ishigaki, Kazuyoshi; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brown, Michael R.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; de Vries, Paul S.; Giannakopoulou, Olga; Giardoglou, Panagiota; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Güldener, Ulrich; Haider, Syed M. Ijlal; Helgadottir, Anna; Ibrahim, Maysson; Kastrati, Adnan; Kessler, Thorsten; Kyriakou, Theodosios; Konopka, Tomasz; Li, Ling; Ma, Lijiang; Meitinger, Thomas; Mucha, Sören; Munz, Matthias; Murgia, Federico; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Nöthen, Markus M.; Pang, Shichao; Reinberger, Tobias; Schnitzler, Gavin; Smedley, Damian; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; von Scheidt, Moritz; Ulirsch, Jacob C.; Danesh, John; Arnar, David O.; Burtt, Noël P.; Costanzo, Maria C.; Flannick, Jason; Ito, Kaoru; Jang, Dong-Keun; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Khera, Amit V.; Komuro, Issei; Kullo, Iftikhar J.; Lotta, Luca A.; Nelson, Christopher P.; Roberts, Robert; Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Webb, Thomas R.; Baras, Aris; Björkegren, Johan L. M.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Dedoussis, George; Holm, Hilma; Hveem, Kristian; Melander, Olle; Morrison, Alanna C.; Orho-Melander, Marju; Rallidis, Loukianos S.; Ruusalepp, Arno; Sabatine, Marc S.; Stefansson, Kari; Zalloua, Pierre; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Farrall, Martin; Danesh, John; Ruff, Christian T.; Finucane, Hilary K.; Hopewell, Jemma C.; Clarke, Robert; Gupta, Rajat M.; Erdmann, Jeanette; Samani, Nilesh J.; Schunkert, Heribert; Watkins, Hugh; Willer, Cristen J.; Deloukas, Panos; Kathiresan, Sekar; Butterworth, Adam S.; de Vries, Paul S.; von Scheidt, Moritz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The discovery of genetic loci associated with complex diseases has outpaced the elucidation of mechanisms of disease pathogenesis. Here we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for coronary artery disease (CAD) ...
    • Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts 

      Wang, Ying; Lopera, Esteban; Namba, Shinichi; Kerminen, Sini; Tsuo, Kristin; Läll, Kristi; Kanai, Masahiro; Zhou, Wei; Wu, Kuan-Han; Favé, Marie-Julie; Bhatta, Laxmi; Awadalla, Philip; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Deelen, Patrick; Hveem, Kristian; Faro, Valeria Lo; Mägi, Reedik; Murakami, Yoshinori; Sanna, Serena; Smoller, Jordan W.; Uzunovic, Jasmina; Wolford, Brooke N.; GBMI, .; Willer, Cristen; Gamazon, Eric R.; Cox, Nancy J.; Surakka, Ida; Okada, Yukinori; Martin, Alicia R.; Hirbo, Jibril B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been widely explored in precision medicine. However, few studies have thoroughly investigated their best practices in global populations across different diseases. We here utilized data ...
    • GWAS of thyroid stimulating hormone highlights pleiotropic effects and inverse association with thyroid cancer 

      Zhou, Wei; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Kabil, Omer; Gudmundsson, Julius; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Weinstock, Joshua; Zawistowski, Matthew; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Chaker, Layal; Medici, Marco; Teumer, Alexander; Naitza, Silvia; Sanna, Serena; Schultheiss, Ulla T.; Cappola, Anne R.; Karjalainen, Juha; Kurki, Mitja I.; Oneka, Morgan; Taylor, Peter; Fritsche, Lars; Graham, Sarah E.; Wolford, Brooke N.; Overton, William; Rasheed, Humaira; Bordal, Eirin Haug; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Surakka, Ida; Davey Smith, George; Pandit, Anita; Roychowdhury, Tanmoy; Hornsby, Whitney; Jonasson, Jon G.; Senter, Leigha; Liyanarachchi, Sandya; Ringel, Matthew D.; Xu, Li; Kiemeney, Lambertus A.; He, Huiling; Netea-Maier, Romana; Mayordomo, Jose; Plantinga, Theo S.; Hrafnkelsson, Jon; Hjartarson, Hannes; Sturgis, Erich M.; Palotie, Aarno; Daly, Mark J.; Citterio, Cintia E.; Arvan, Peter; Brummett, Chad M.; Boehnke, Michael; de la Chapelle, Albert; Stefansson, Kari; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is critical for normal development and metabolism. To better understand the genetic contribution to TSH levels, we conduct a GWAS meta-analysis at 22.4 million genetic markers in up to ...
    • MEPE loss-of-function variant associates with decreased bone mineral density and increased fracture risk 

      Surakka, Ida; Fritsche, Lars; Zhou, Wei; Backman, Joshua; Kosmicki, Jack A.; Lu, Haocheng; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Wolford, Brooke N.; Graham, Sarah E.; Chen, Y. Eugene; Lee, Seunggeun; Kang, Hyun Min; Langhammer, Arnulf; Forsmo, Siri; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Holm, Hilma; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Stefansson, Kari; Baras, Aris; Bai, Xiaodong; Balasubramanian, Suganthi; Barnard, Leland; Blumenfeld, Andrew; Cantor, Michael; Coppola, Giovanni; Economides, Aris; Eom, Gisu; Habegger, Lukas; Hahn, Young; Hawes, Alicia; Jones, Marcus B.; Khalid, Shareef; Lotta, Luca A.; Maxwell, Evan K.; Mitnaul, Lyndon J.; Overton, John D.; Reid, Jeffrey G.; Ferreira, Manuel Allen Revez; Salerno, William; Sharma, Deepika; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Staples, Jeffrey C.; Yadav, Ashish; Abecasis, Goncalo R.; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A major challenge in genetic association studies is that most associated variants fall in the non-coding part of the human genome. We searched for variants associated with bone mineral density (BMD) after enriching the ...
    • Multi-ancestry meta-analysis identifies 5 novel loci for ischemic stroke and reveals heterogeneity of effects between sexes and ancestries 

      Surakka, Ida; Wu, Kuan-Han; Hornsby, Whitney; Wolford, Brooke N.; Shen, Fred; Zhou, Wei; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Pandit, Anita; Hu, Yao; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Walters, Robin G.; Hveem, Kristian; Kooperberg, Charles; Zöllner, Sebastian; Wilson, Peter W.F.; Sutton, Nadia R.; Daly, Mark J.; Neale, Benjamin M.; Willer, Cristen J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Stroke is the second leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Stroke prevalence varies by sex and ancestry, possibly due to genetic heterogeneity between subgroups. We performed a genome-wide meta-analysis of 16 ...
    • Type 2 diabetes sex-specific effects associated with E167K coding variant in TM6SF2 

      Fan, Yanbo; Wolford, Brooke N.; Lu, Haocheng; Liang, Wenying; Sun, Jinjian; Zhou, Wei; Rom, Oren; Mahajan, Anubha; Surakka, Ida; Graham, Sarah E.; Liu, Zhipeng; Kim, Hyunbae; Ramdas, Shweta; Fritsche, Lars; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Hveem, Kristian; Yang, Dongshan; Song, Jun; Garcia-Barrio, Minerva T.; Zhang, Jifeng; Liu, Wanqing; Zhang, Kezhong; Willer, Cristen J.; Chen, Y. Eugene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The rs58542926C >T (E167K) variant of the transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 gene (TM6SF2) is associated with increased risks for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Nevertheless, the role ...