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Doug Speed

Researcher at Aarhus University

Publications -  69
Citations -  9082

Doug Speed is an academic researcher from Aarhus University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Heritability. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 56 publications receiving 7101 citations. Previous affiliations of Doug Speed include University of Cambridge & University of Southern California.

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Improved Heritability Estimation from Genome-wide SNPs

TL;DR: A modified kinship matrix in which SNPs are weighted according to local LD is proposed, which greatly reduces the bias and increases the precision of h(2) estimates and develops LDAK, software for computing LD-adjusted kinships.
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Reevaluation of SNP heritability in complex human traits

TL;DR: A model that more accurately describes how heritability varies with minor allele frequency, linkage disequilibrium and genotype certainty is empirically derived by analyzing imputed data for a large number of human traits.
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Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast.

TL;DR: It is shown that copy number variants (CNVs) show a variety of genetic signals consistent with rapid turnover and make substantial contributions to quantitative traits, most notably intracellular amino acid concentrations, growth under stress and sugar utilization in winemaking, whereas rearrangements are strongly associated with reproductive isolation.
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Genome-wide mega-analysis identifies 16 loci and highlights diverse biological mechanisms in the common epilepsies

Bassel Abou-Khalil, +158 more
TL;DR: The authors perform genome-wide association studies for 3 broad and 7 subtypes of epilepsy and identify 16 loci - 11 novel - that are further annotated by eQTL and partitioned heritability analyses that provide leads for epilepsy therapies based on underlying pathophysiology.