2024
A phenome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation study of alcohol use variants in a diverse cohort comprising over 3 million individuals
Jennings M, Martínez-Magaña J, Courchesne-Krak N, Cupertino R, Vilar-Ribó L, Bianchi S, Hatoum A, Atkinson E, Giusti-Rodriguez P, Montalvo-Ortiz J, Gelernter J, Artigas M, 23andMe I, Aslibekyan S, Auton A, Babalola E, Bell R, Bielenberg J, Bryc K, Bullis E, Coker D, Partida G, Dhamija D, Das S, Elson S, Eriksson N, Filshtein T, Fitch A, Fletez-Brant K, Fontanillas P, Freyman W, Granka J, Heilbron K, Hernandez A, Hicks B, Hinds D, Jewett E, Jiang Y, Kukar K, Kwong A, Lin K, Llamas B, Lowe M, McCreight J, McIntyre M, Micheletti S, Moreno M, Nandakumar P, Nguyen D, Noblin E, O'Connell J, Petrakovitz A, Poznik G, Reynoso A, Schumacher M, Shastri A, Shelton J, Shi J, Shringarpure S, Su Q, Tat S, Tchakouté C, Tran V, Tung J, Wang X, Wang W, Weldon C, Wilton P, Wong C, Elson S, Edenberg H, Fontanillas P, Palmer A, Sanchez-Roige S. A phenome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation study of alcohol use variants in a diverse cohort comprising over 3 million individuals. EBioMedicine 2024, 103: 105086. PMID: 38580523, PMCID: PMC11121167, DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105086.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultiple domains of healthDomains of healthEffects of alcohol consumptionAlcohol consumptionHealth outcomesPhenome-wide association studyAlcohol-related behaviorsCardio-metabolic healthPotential causal effectMendelian randomisation studiesGenome-wide association studiesPhenome-wide associationMR analysisPheWAS associationsMultiple domainsHypothesis-free approachPreventive medicineDiverse cohortPheWASAssociation studiesHealthReproductive healthAlcohol behaviorConsequences of drinkingEuropean cohort
2023
Identifying genetic loci and phenomic associations of substance use traits: A multi‐trait analysis of GWAS (MTAG) study
Xu H, Toikumo S, Crist R, Glogowska K, Jinwala Z, Deak J, Justice A, Gelernter J, Johnson E, Kranzler H, Kember R. Identifying genetic loci and phenomic associations of substance use traits: A multi‐trait analysis of GWAS (MTAG) study. Addiction 2023, 118: 1942-1952. PMID: 37156939, PMCID: PMC10754226, DOI: 10.1111/add.16229.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesSignificant single nucleotide polymorphismsSubstance use traitsMulti-trait analysisAssociation studiesGenetic architectureUse traitsGenome-wide significant single nucleotide polymorphismsProtein-protein interaction analysisTrait genetic architectureNumber of lociPolygenic risk scoresEuropean ancestry individualsNovel lociSingle nucleotide polymorphismsGenetic lociGWAS studiesLociMultiple related phenotypesNucleotide polymorphismsRelated phenotypesTraitsNovel associationsMTAgBiobank samples