Kathy Stirrups

TL;DR: It is concluded that the heritability void left by genome-wide association studies will not be accounted for by common CNVs, and 30 loci with CNVs that are candidates for influencing disease susceptibility are identified.

TL;DR: This paper performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals.

TL;DR: A large, direct genome-wide study of association between CNVs and eight common human diseases concludes that common CNVs that can be typed on existing platforms are unlikely to contribute greatly to the genetic basis ofcommon human diseases.

TL;DR: Genome-wide association studies have identified 11 common variants convincingly associated with coronary artery disease (CAD), a modest number considering the apparent heritability of CAD(8) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Metabochip and its component SNP sets are described and evaluated, its performance in capturing variation across the allele-frequency spectrum is evaluated, solutions to methodological challenges commonly encountered in its analysis are described, and its performance as a platform for genotype imputation is evaluated.