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Gene discovery and biological insights into anxiety disorders from a large-scale multi-ancestry genome-wide association study
Friligkou E, Løkhammer S, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Shen J, He J, Deiana G, Zanoaga M, Asgel Z, Pilcher A, Di Lascio L, Makharashvili A, Koller D, Tylee D, Pathak G, Polimanti R. Gene discovery and biological insights into anxiety disorders from a large-scale multi-ancestry genome-wide association study. Nature Genetics 2024, 56: 2036-2045. PMID: 39294497, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01908-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGenome-wide association studiesAnxiety disordersAssociation studiesMulti-ancestry genome-wide association studyPathogenesis of anxiety disordersHeritability of anxietyLocal genetic correlationProteome-wide analysisIndividuals of European descentAssociated with anxietyMulti-omics informationWidespread pleiotropyTranscriptome-widePolygenic risk scoresBipolar disorderAncestry-specificGene discoveryContinental groupsLimbic systemEast Asian groupsBiological insightsAnxietyEntorhinal cortexPhysical health domainBrain-specific
2023
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications
Levey D, Galimberti M, Deak J, Wendt F, Bhattacharya A, Koller D, Harrington K, Quaden R, Johnson E, Gupta P, Biradar M, Lam M, Cooke M, Rajagopal V, Empke S, Zhou H, Nunez Y, Kranzler H, Edenberg H, Agrawal A, Smoller J, Lencz T, Hougaard D, Børglum A, Demontis D, Gaziano J, Gandal M, Polimanti R, Stein M, Gelernter J. Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications. Nature Genetics 2023, 55: 2094-2103. PMID: 37985822, PMCID: PMC10703690, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01563-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle nucleotide polymorphism-based heritabilityMulti-ancestry genome-wide association studyAssociation studiesMillion Veteran ProgramGenome-wide association studiesWide significant lociWide association studySignificant lociReference panelSmall populationDisease biologyAncestryAmerican ancestryHeritabilityVeteran ProgramNumerous medical comorbiditiesLung cancer riskRelationship analysisLociBiologyPublic health implicationsEast AsiansPublic health consequencesMedical comorbiditiesCigarette smoking