[HTML][HTML] Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

G Davies, M Lam, SE Harris, JW Trampush… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
General cognitive function is a prominent and relatively stable human trait that is associated
with many important life outcomes. We combine cognitive and genetic data from the …

Genome-wide meta-analyses of nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate identify six new risk loci

KU Ludwig, E Mangold, S Herms, S Nowak, H Reutter… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We have conducted the first meta-analyses for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft
palate (NSCL/P) using data from the two largest genome-wide association studies published …

[HTML][HTML] Strengthening regulatory science in academia: STARS, an EU initiative to bridge the translational gap

V Starokozhko, M Kallio, ÅK Howell, AM Salmi… - Drug discovery today, 2021 - Elsevier
Truly disruptive medicine innovation and new treatment paradigms tend to start in non-
commercial research institutions. However, the lack of mutual understanding between …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies in oesophageal adenocarcinoma and Barrett's oesophagus: a large-scale meta-analysis

P Gharahkhani, RC Fitzgerald, TL Vaughan… - The lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Oesophageal adenocarcinoma represents one of the fastest rising cancers in
high-income countries. Barrett's oesophagus is the premalignant precursor of oesophageal …

Multitrait genetic association analysis identifies 50 new risk loci for gastro-oesophageal reflux, seven new loci for Barrett's oesophagus and provides insights into …

JS Ong, J An, X Han, MH Law, P Nandakumar… - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD) has heterogeneous aetiology
primarily attributable to its symptom-based definitions. GERD genome-wide association …

Imputation of orofacial clefting data identifies novel risk loci and sheds light on the genetic background of cleft lip±cleft palate and cleft palate only

KU Ludwig, AC Böhmer, J Bowes… - Human molecular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (nsCL/P) is among the most common
human birth defects with multifactorial etiology. Here, we present results from a genome …

[PDF][PDF] Sequencing the GRHL3 coding region reveals rare truncating mutations and a common susceptibility variant for nonsyndromic cleft palate

E Mangold, AC Böhmer, N Ishorst, AK Hoebel… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Nonsyndromic cleft lip with/without cleft palate (nsCL/P) and nonsyndromic cleft palate only
(nsCPO) are the most frequent subphenotypes of orofacial clefts. A common syndromic form …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis reveals genome-wide significance at 15q13 for nonsyndromic clefting of both the lip and the palate, and functional analyses implicate GREM1 …

KU Ludwig, ST Ahmed, AC Böhmer, NB Sangani… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Nonsyndromic orofacial clefts are common birth defects with multifactorial etiology. The most
common type is cleft lip, which occurs with or without cleft palate (nsCLP and nsCLO …

[HTML][HTML] Gastroesophageal reflux GWAS identifies risk loci that also associate with subsequent severe esophageal diseases

J An, P Gharahkhani, MH Law, JS Ong, X Han… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is caused by gastric acid entering the esophagus.
GERD has high prevalence and is the major risk factor for Barrett's esophagus (BE) and …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive re-assessment of the association between vitamin D and cancer susceptibility using Mendelian randomization

JS Ong, SC Dixon-Suen, X Han, J An… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Previous Mendelian randomization (MR) studies on 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25 (OH) D) and
cancer have typically adopted a handful of variants and found no relationship between 25 …