Gisli Masson

TL;DR: Recombination rates are significantly correlated with both cytogenetic structures and sequence and paternal chromosomes show many differences in locations of recombination maxima, suggesting that there is some underlying component determined by both genetic and environmental factors that affects maternal recombination rates.

TL;DR: A study of genome-wide mutation rates by sequencing the entire genomes of 78 Icelandic parent–offspring trios at high coverage shows that the diversity in mutation rate of single nucleotide polymorphisms is dominated by the age of the father at conception of the child.

TL;DR: Findings implicating the MHC region are consistent with an immune component to schizophrenia risk, whereas the association with NRGN and TCF4 points to perturbation of pathways involved in brain development, memory and cognition.

TL;DR: An association between myocardial infarction and a common sequence variant on chromosome 9p21 was associated with the disease with high significance and approximately 21% of individuals in the population are homozygous for this variant, and their estimated risk of suffering myocardious disease is 1.64 times as great as that of noncarriers.

TL;DR: A genome-wide association study in the Nordic region identifying a novel MM risk locus at ELL2 that encodes a stoichiometrically limiting component of the super-elongation complex that drives secretory-specific immunoglobulin mRNA production and transcriptional regulation in plasma cells is reported.