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Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 629
Citations - 271012
Gonçalo R. Abecasis is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 179, co-authored 595 publications receiving 230323 citations. Previous affiliations of Gonçalo R. Abecasis include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.
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The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study
Thomas W. Winkler,Anne E. Justice,Mariaelisa Graff,Llilda Barata,Mary F. Feitosa,Su H. Chu,Jacek Czajkowski,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Yingchang Lu,Reedik Mägi,Evelin Mihailov,Tune H. Pers,Sina Rüeger,Alexander Teumer,Georg Ehret,Teresa Ferreira,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Juha Karjalainen,Vasiliki Lagou,Anubha Mahajan,Michael D. Neinast,Inga Prokopenko,Jeannette Simino,Tanya M. Teslovich,Rick Jansen,Harm-Jan Westra,Charles C. White,Devin Absher,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Shafqat Ahmad,Eva Albrecht,Alexessander Couto Alves,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Anton J. M. de Craen,Joshua C. Bis,Amélie Bonnefond,Gabrielle Boucher,Gemma Cadby,Yu-Ching Cheng,Charleston W. K. Chiang,Graciela Delgado,Ayse Demirkan,Nicole Dueker,Niina Eklund,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Joel Eriksson,Bjarke Feenstra,Krista Fischer,Francesca Frau,Tessel E. Galesloot,Frank Geller,Anuj Goel,Mathias Gorski,Tanja B. Grammer,Stefan Gustafsson,Saskia Haitjema,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Jennifer E. Huffman,Anne U. Jackson,Kevin B. Jacobs,Åsa Johansson,Marika Kaakinen,Marcus E. Kleber,Jari Lahti,Irene Mateo Leach,Benjamin Lehne,Youfang Liu,Ken Sin Lo,Mattias Lorentzon,Jian'an Luan,Pamela A. F. Madden,Massimo Mangino,Barbara McKnight,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Keri L. Monda,May E. Montasser,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Ilja M. Nolte,Kalliope Panoutsopoulou,Laura Pascoe,Lavinia Paternoster,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Federica Rizzi,Lynda M. Rose,Kathy Ryan,Perttu Salo,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Lorraine Southam,Alena Stančáková,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Ioanna Tachmazidou,Toshiko Tanaka,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Stella Trompet,Natalia Pervjakova,Jonathan Tyrer,Liesbeth Vandenput,Sander W. van der Laan,Nathalie van der Velde,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Niek Verweij,Efthymia Vlachopoulou,Lindsay L. Waite,Sophie R. Wang,Zhaoming Wang,Sarah H. Wild,Christina Willenborg,James F. Wilson,Andrew Wong,Jian Yang,Loic Yengo,Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,Lei Yu,Weihua Zhang,Jing Hua Zhao,Ehm A. Andersson,Stephan J. L. Bakker,Damiano Baldassarre,Karina Banasik,Matteo Barcella,Cristina Barlassina,Claire Bellis,Paola Benaglio,John Blangero,Matthias Blüher,Fabrice Bonnet,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Aron S. Buchman,Harry Campbell,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Peter S. Chines,Simone Claudi-Boehm,John B. Cole,Francis S. Collins,Eco J. C. de Geus,Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot,Maria Dimitriou,Jubao Duan,Stefan Enroth,Elodie Eury,Aliki-Eleni Farmaki,Nita G. Forouhi,Nele Friedrich,Pablo V. Gejman,Bruna Gigante,Nicola Glorioso,Alan S. Go,Omri Gottesman,Jürgen Gräßler,Harald Grallert,Niels Grarup,Yu Mei Gu,Linda Broer,Annelies C. Ham,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Nicholas D. Hastie,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew C. Heath,Anjali K. Henders,Dena G. Hernandez,Hans L. Hillege,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Kees Hovingh,Jennie Hui,Lise Lotte N. Husemoen,Nina Hutri-Kähönen,Pirro G. Hysi,Thomas Illig,Philip L. De Jager,Shapour Jalilzadeh,Torben Jørgensen,J. Wouter Jukema,Markus Juonala,Stavroula Kanoni,Maria Karaleftheri,Kay-Tee Khaw,Leena Kinnunen,Steven J. Kittner,Wolfgang Koenig,Ivana Kolcic,Peter Kovacs,Nikolaj T. Krarup,Wolfgang Kratzer,Janine Krüger,Diana Kuh,Meena Kumari,Theodosios Kyriakou,Claudia Langenberg,Lars Lannfelt,Chiara Lanzani,Vaneet Lotay,Lenore J. Launer,Karin Leander,Jaana Lindström,Allan Linneberg,Yan Ping Liu,Stéphane Lobbens,Robert Luben,Valeriya Lyssenko,Satu Männistö,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Wendy L. McArdle,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Lili Milani,Grant W. Montgomery,Andrew P. Morris,Narisu Narisu,Mari Nelis,Ken K. Ong,Aarno Palotie,Louis Pérusse,Irene Pichler,Maria Grazia Pilia,Anneli Pouta,Myriam Rheinberger,Rasmus Ribel-Madsen,Marcus Richards,Kenneth Rice,Treva Rice,Carlo Rivolta,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Mark A. Sarzynski,Salome Scholtens,Robert A. Scott,William R. Scott,Sylvain Sebert,Sebanti Sengupta,Bengt Sennblad,Thomas Seufferlein,Angela Silveira,P. Eline Slagboom,Jan Smit,Thomas Sparsø,Kathleen Stirrups,Ronald P. Stolk,Heather M. Stringham,Morris A. Swertz,Amy J. Swift,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Sian Tsung Tan,Barbara Thorand,Anke Tönjes,Angelo Tremblay,Emmanouil Tsafantakis,Peter J. van der Most,Uwe Völker,Marie-Claude Vohl,Judith M. Vonk,Melanie Waldenberger,Ryan W. Walker,Roman Wennauer,Elisabeth Widen,Gonneke Willemsen,Tom Wilsgaard,Alan F. Wright,M. Carola Zillikens,Suzanne C. van Dijk,Natasja M. van Schoor,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Jacques S. Beckmann,John Beilby,David A. Bennett,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Carsten A. Böger,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Stefan R. Bornstein,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Daniel I. Chasman,Francesco Cucca,Daniele Cusi,George Dedoussis,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Denis A. Evans,Ulf de Faire,Martin Farrall,Luigi Ferrucci,Ian Ford,Lude Franke,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Ron T. Gansevoort,Christian Gieger,Henrik Grönberg,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Anders Hamsten,Pim van der Harst,Caroline Hayward,Markku Heliövaara,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Frank B. Hu,Heikki V. Huikuri,Kristian Hveem,Alan L. James,Joanne M. Jordan,Antti Jula,Mika Kähönen,Eero Kajantie,Sekar Kathiresan,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Mika Kivimäki,Paul Knekt,Heikki A. Koistinen,Jaspal S. Kooner,Seppo Koskinen,Johanna Kuusisto,Winfried Maerz,Nicholas G. Martin,Markku Laakso,Timo A. Lakka,Terho Lehtimäki,Guillaume Lettre,Douglas F. Levinson,Lars Lind,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Pekka Mäntyselkä,Mads Melbye,Andres Metspalu,Braxton D. Mitchell,Frans L. Moll,Jeffrey C. Murray,Arthur W. Musk,Markku S. Nieminen,Inger Njølstad,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ben A. Oostra,Lyle J. Palmer,James S. Pankow,Gerard Pasterkamp,Nancy L. Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Markus Perola,Annette Peters,Ozren Polasek,Peter P. Pramstaller,Bruce M. Psaty,Lu Qi,Thomas Quertermous,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Rainer Rauramaa,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Fernando Rivadeneira,Jerome I. Rotter,Igor Rudan,Hester M. den Ruijter,Juha Saltevo,Naveed Sattar,Heribert Schunkert,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Harold Snieder,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Tim D. Spector,Jan A. Staessen,Bandinelli Stefania,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Michael Stumvoll,Jean-Claude Tardif,Elena Tremoli,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,André L. M. Verbeek,Sita H. Vermeulen,Jorma Viikari,Veronique Vitart,Henry Völzke,Peter Vollenweider,Gérard Waeber,Mark Walker,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,Eleftheria Zeggini,Aravinda Chakravarti,Deborah J. Clegg,L. Adrienne Cupples,Penny Gordon-Larsen,Cashell E. Jaquish,Dabeeru C. Rao,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Themistocles L. Assimes,Inês Barroso,Sonja I. Berndt,Michael Boehnke,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,David J. Hunter,Erik Ingelsson,Robert C. Kaplan,Mark I. McCarthy,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Iris M. Heid,Kari E. North,Ingrid B. Borecki,Zoltán Kutalik,Ruth J. F. Loos +438 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed meta-analyses of 114 studies with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium.
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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture
Sonja I. Berndt,Stefan Gustafsson,Stefan Gustafsson,Reedik Mägi,Reedik Mägi,Andrea Ganna,Eleanor Wheeler,Mary F. Feitosa,Anne E. Justice,Keri L. Monda,Keri L. Monda,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Felix R. Day,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Teresa Ferreira,Davide Gentilini,Anne U. Jackson,Jian'an Luan,Joshua C. Randall,Joshua C. Randall,Sailaja Vedantam,Sailaja Vedantam,Sailaja Vedantam,Cristen J. Willer,Thomas W. Winkler,Andrew R. Wood,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Yi-Juan Hu,Sang Hong Lee,Liming Liang,Danyu Lin,Josine L. Min,Benjamin M. Neale,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Jian Yang,Jian Yang,Eva Albrecht,Najaf Amin,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Gemma Cadby,Gemma Cadby,Martin den Heijer,Niina Eklund,Krista Fischer,Anuj Goel,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Jennifer E. Huffman,Ivonne Jarick,Åsa Johansson,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Stavroula Kanoni,Marcus E. Kleber,Inke R. König,Kati Kristiansson,Zoltán Kutalik,Zoltán Kutalik,Claudia Lamina,Cécile Lecoeur,Cécile Lecoeur,Guo Li,Massimo Mangino,Wendy L. McArdle,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Julius S. Ngwa,Ilja M. Nolte,Lavinia Paternoster,Sonali Pechlivanis,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Marjolein J. Peters,Michael Preuss,Lynda M. Rose,Jianxin Shi,Dmitry Shungin,Dmitry Shungin,Albert V. Smith,Rona J. Strawbridge,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Alexander Teumer,Mieke D. Trip,Jonathan Tyrer,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Liesbeth Vandenput,Lindsay L. Waite,Jing Hua Zhao,Devin Absher,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Mustafa Atalay,Antony P. Attwood,Anthony J. Balmforth,Hanneke Basart,John Beilby,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Paolo Brambilla,Marcel Bruinenberg,Harry Campbell,Daniel I. Chasman,Daniel I. Chasman,Peter S. Chines,Francis S. Collins,John M. C. Connell,John M. C. Connell,William O.C.M. Cookson,Ulf de Faire,Femmie de Vegt,Mariano Dei,Maria Dimitriou,Sarah Edkins,Karol Estrada,David M. Evans,Martin Farrall,Marco M Ferrario,Jean Ferrières,Lude Franke,Francesca Frau,Pablo V. Gejman,Pablo V. Gejman,Harald Grallert,Henrik Grönberg,Vilmundur Gudnason,Alistair S. Hall,Per Hall,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Andrew C. Heath,Johannes Hebebrand,Georg Homuth,Frank B. Hu,Sarah E. Hunt,Elina Hyppönen,Carlos Iribarren,Kevin B. Jacobs,Kevin B. Jacobs,John-Olov Jansson,Antti Jula,Mika Kähönen,Sekar Kathiresan,Frank Kee,Kay-Tee Khaw,Mika Kivimäki,Wolfgang Koenig,Aldi T. Kraja,Meena Kumari,Kari Kuulasmaa,Johanna Kuusisto,Jaana Laitinen,Timo A. Lakka,Claudia Langenberg,Claudia Langenberg,Lenore J. Launer,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Jianjun Liu,Antonio Liuzzi,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Mattias Lorentzon,Pamela A. F. Madden,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Paolo Manunta,Diana Marek,Diana Marek,Winfried März,Winfried März,Irene Mateo Leach,Barbara McKnight,Sarah E. Medland,Evelin Mihailov,Lili Milani,Grant W. Montgomery,Vincent Mooser,Thomas W. Mühleisen,Patricia B. Munroe,Arthur W. Musk,Arthur W. Musk,Narisu Narisu,Gerjan Navis,George Nicholson,Ellen A. Nohr,Ken K. Ong,Ben A. Oostra,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Aarno Palotie,Aarno Palotie,John F. Peden,Nancy L. Pedersen,Annette Peters,Ozren Polasek,Anneli Pouta,Anneli Pouta,Peter P. Pramstaller,Inga Prokopenko,Inga Prokopenko,Carolin Pütter,Aparna Radhakrishnan,Aparna Radhakrishnan,Aparna Radhakrishnan,Olli T. Raitakari,Olli T. Raitakari,Augusto Rendon,Fernando Rivadeneira,Igor Rudan,Timo Saaristo,Jennifer G. Sambrook,Jennifer G. Sambrook,Alan R. Sanders,Alan R. Sanders,Serena Sanna,Jouko Saramies,Sabine Schipf,Stefan Schreiber,Heribert Schunkert,So-Youn Shin,Stefano Signorini,Juha Sinisalo,Boris Skrobek,Boris Skrobek,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Alena Stančáková,Klaus Stark,Jonathan Stephens,Jonathan Stephens,Kathleen Stirrups,Ronald P. Stolk,Michael Stumvoll,Amy J. Swift,Eirini V. Theodoraki,Barbara Thorand,David-Alexandre Trégouët,Elena Tremoli,Melanie M. van der Klauw,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Sita H. Vermeulen,Jorma Viikari,Jarmo Virtamo,Veronique Vitart,Gérard Waeber,Zhaoming Wang,Zhaoming Wang,Elisabeth Widen,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Bernhard R. Winkelmann,Jacqueline C.M. Witteman,Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel,Andrew Wong,Alan F. Wright,M. Carola Zillikens,Philippe Amouyel,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Stephen J. Chanock,L. Adrienne Cupples,Daniele Cusi,George Dedoussis,Jeanette Erdmann,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Johan G. Eriksson,Johan G. Eriksson,Paul W. Franks,Paul W. Franks,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Christian Gieger,Ulf Gyllensten,Anders Hamsten,Tamara B. Harris,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Aroon D. Hingorani,Anke Hinney,Albert Hofman,Kees Hovingh,Kristian Hveem,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Diana Kuh,Markku Laakso,Terho Lehtimäki,Douglas F. Levinson,Nicholas G. Martin,Andres Metspalu,Andrew D. Morris,Markku S. Nieminen,Inger Njølstad,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Willem H. Ouwehand,Lyle J. Palmer,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Chris Power,Michael A. Province,Bruce M. Psaty,Lu Qi,Lu Qi,Rainer Rauramaa,Paul M. Ridker,Paul M. Ridker,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Harold Snieder,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Tim D. Spector,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Anke Tönjes,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,Pim van der Harst,Peter Vollenweider,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,H-Erich Wichmann,James F. Wilson,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Themistocles L. Assimes,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Michael Boehnke,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Timothy M. Frayling,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunian,Iris M. Heid,David J. Hunter,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Fredrik Karpe,Fredrik Karpe,Miriam F. Moffatt,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Yudi Pawitan,Eric E. Schadt,David Schlessinger,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,David P. Strachan,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Peter M. Visscher,Anna Maria Di Blasio,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Andrew P. Morris,David Meyre,David Meyre,David Meyre,André Scherag,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Kari E. North,Ruth J. F. Loos,Erik Ingelsson +385 more
TL;DR: A genome-wide search for loci associated with the upper versus the lower 5th percentiles of body mass index, height and waist-to-hip ratio as well as clinical classes of obesity, including up to 263,407 individuals of European ancestry finds a large overlap in genetic structure and the distribution of variants between traits based on extremes and the general population and little etiological heterogeneity between obesity subgroups.
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Pervasive sharing of genetic effects in autoimmune disease.
Chris Cotsapas,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Elizabeth J. Rossin,Kasper Lage,Kasper Lage,Kasper Lage,Benjamin M. Neale,Chris Wallace,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Timothy W. Behrens,Judy H. Cho,Philip L. De Jager,Philip L. De Jager,James T. Elder,Robert R. Graham,Peter K. Gregersen,Lars Klareskog,Katherine A. Siminovitch,David A. van Heel,Cisca Wijmenga,Jane Worthington,John A. Todd,David A. Hafler,Stephen S. Rich,Mark J. Daly +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the extent of this sharing for 107 immune disease-risk SNPs in seven diseases: celiac disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and type 1 diabetes.
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Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity
Jason Z. Liu,Federica Tozzi,Dawn M. Waterworth,Sreekumar G. Pillai,Pierandrea Muglia,Lefkos T. Middleton,Wade H. Berrettini,Christopher W. Knouff,Xin Yuan,Gérard Waeber,Peter Vollenweider,Martin Preisig,Nicholas J. Wareham,Jing Hua Zhao,Ruth J. F. Loos,Ins Barroso,Kay-Tee Khaw,Scott M. Grundy,Philip J. Barter,Robert W. Mahley,Antero Kesäniemi,Ruth McPherson,John B. Vincent,John Strauss,James L. Kennedy,Anne Farmer,Peter McGuffin,Richard O. Day,Keith Matthews,Per Bakke,Amund Gulsvik,Susanne Lucae,Marcus Ising,T. Brueckl,S. Horstmann,H.-Erich Wichmann,Rajesh Rawal,Norbert Dahmen,Claudia Lamina,Ozren Polasek,Lina Zgaga,Jennifer E. Huffman,Susan Campbell,Jaspal S. Kooner,John C. Chambers,Mary Susan Burnett,Joseph M. Devaney,Augusto D. Pichard,Kenneth M. Kent,Lowell F. Satler,Joseph M. Lindsay,Ron Waksman,Stephen E. Epstein,James F. Wilson,Sarah H. Wild,Harry Campbell,Veronique Vitart,Muredach P. Reilly,Mingyao Li,Liming Qu,Robert L. Wilensky,William H. Matthai,Hakon Hakonarson,Daniel J. Rader,Andre Franke,Michael Wittig,Arne Schäfer,Manuela Uda,Antonio Terracciano,Xiangjun Xiao,Fabio Busonero,Paul Scheet,David Schlessinger,David St Clair,Dan Rujescu,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Hans J. Grabe,Alexander Teumer,Henry Völzke,Astrid Petersmann,Ulrich John,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Caroline Hayward,Alan F. Wright,Ivana Kolcic,Benjamin J. Wright,John R. Thompson,Anthony J. Balmforth,Alistair S. Hall,Nilesh J. Samani,Carl A. Anderson,Tariq Ahmad,Christopher G. Mathew,Miles Parkes,Jack Satsangi,Mark J. Caulfield,Patricia B. Munroe,Martin Farrall,Anna F. Dominiczak,Jane Worthington,Wendy Thomson,Steve Eyre,Anne Barton,Vincent Mooser,Clyde Francks,Clyde Francks,Jonathan Marchini +107 more
TL;DR: The Oxford-GlaxoSmithKline study (Ox-GSK) as discussed by the authors performed a genome-wide meta-analysis of SNP association with smoking-related behavioral traits and found an effect on smoking quantity at a locus on 15q25 (P = 9.45 x 10(-19) that includes CHRNA5, CHRNA3 and CHRNB4.
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Sequence and Haplotype Analysis Supports HLA-C as the Psoriasis Susceptibility 1 Gene
Rajan P. Nair,Philip E. Stuart,Ioana Nistor,Ravi Hiremagalore,Nicholas V.C. Chia,Stefan Jenisch,Michael Weichenthal,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Henry W. Lim,Enno Christophers,John J. Voorhees,James T. Elder,James T. Elder +12 more
TL;DR: Results strongly suggest that HLA-Cw6 is the PSORS1 risk allele that confers susceptibility to early-onset psoriasis.