Expressive

rs116879078 - HERC2

Magnitude 2.2 · 2 studies on file

Reported associations

  • A generalized linear mixed model association tool for biobank-scale data. - Nature genetics (2021) · Jiang L, Zheng Z, Fang H, Yang J · PubMed 34737426

    Compared with linear mixed model-based genome-wide association (GWA) methods, generalized linear mixed model (GLMM)-based methods have better statistical properties when applied to binary traits but are computationally much slower. In the present study, leveraging efficient sparse matrix-based algorithms, we developed a GLMM-based GWA tool, fastGWA-GLMM, that is severalfold to orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art tools when applied to the UK Biobank (UKB) data and scalable to cohorts with millions of individuals. We show by simulation that the fastGWA-GLMM test statistics of both common and rare variants are well calibrated under the null, even for traits with extreme case-control ratios. We applied fastGWA-GLMM to the UKB data of 456,348 individuals, 11,842,647 variants an

  • Skin Phototype and Disease: A Comprehensive Genetic Approach to Pigmentary Traits Pleiotropy Using PRS in the GCAT Cohort - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 36672889

    ABSTRACT: Human pigmentation has largely been associated with different disease prevalence among populations, but most of these studies are observational and inconclusive. Known to be genetically determined, pigmentary traits have largely been studied by Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS), mostly in Caucasian ancestry cohorts from North Europe, identifying robustly, several loci involved in many of the pigmentary traits. Here, we conduct a detailed analysis by GWAS and Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) of 13 pigmentary-related traits in a South European cohort of Caucasian ancestry (n = 20,000). We observed fair phototype strongly associated with non-melanoma skin cancer and other dermatoses and confirmed by PRS-approach the shared genetic basis with skin and eye diseases, such as melanoma (OR

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