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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Facility•Oxford, United Kingdom•
About: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics is a facility organization based out in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Genome-wide association study. The organization has 2122 authors who have published 4269 publications receiving 433899 citations.
Topics: Population, Genome-wide association study, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Gene, Locus (genetics)
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TL;DR: Genes of the major histocompatibility complex are implicated as important inherited determinants of susceptibility to ulcerative colitis and may also influence the pattern of disease.
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TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis was conducted on studies reporting data on associations between candidate genes and human personality traits, and the association between the 5HTT LPR polymorphism and avoidance traits remained significant (P=0.038) but sensitivity analyses excluded data from studies reporting allele frequencies not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and unpublished data resulted in this association no longer being significant.
Abstract: A meta-analysis was conducted on studies reporting data on associations between candidate genes and human personality. Studies reporting data for psychiatric populations (including organic disease and substance abuse) were excluded. A total of 46 studies contributed to the analysis. Pooled data using a fixed-effects model suggested significant associations between the 5HTT LPR, DRD4 c>t, DRD4 length, DRD2 A1/A2, DRD3 A1/A2 polymorphisms and personality traits. A multivariate analysis using a mixed-effects model and including age, sex and predominant ethnicity as covariates was applied to the analyses of 5HTT LPR and DRD4 length polymorphism data. Only the association between the 5HTT LPR polymorphism and avoidance traits remained significant (P=0.038). However, sensitivity analyses excluding data from studies reporting allele frequencies not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and unpublished data resulted in this association no longer being significant. Implications for the design of future association studies of human personality are discussed, including the likely sample sizes that will be required to achieve sufficient power and the potential role of moderating variables such as sex.
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University of Leicester1, University of Nottingham2, University of British Columbia3, Laval University4, Tongji University5, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai6, University Medical Center Groningen7, UCL Institute of Neurology8, King's College London9, University of Oxford10, University of Tartu11, Boston Children's Hospital12, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics13, University of Geneva14, Queen Mary University of London15, King Abdulaziz University16, Imperial College Healthcare17, Imperial College London18, University of Glasgow19, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute20, University of Liverpool21, St George's, University of London22, National Institute for Health Research23
TL;DR: By sampling from the extremes of the lung function distribution in UK Biobank, novel genetic causes of lung function and smoking behaviour are identified and substantial shared genetic architecture underlying airflow obstruction is shown across individuals, irrespective of smoking behaviour and other airway disease.
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TL;DR: There are multiple causes of severe anemia in Malawian preschool children, but folate and iron deficiencies are not prominent among them.
Abstract: Background Severe anemia is a major cause of sickness and death in African children, yet the causes of anemia in this population have been inadequately studied. Methods We conducted a case–control study of 381 preschool children with severe anemia (hemoglobin concentration, <5.0 g per deciliter) and 757 preschool children without severe anemia in urban and rural settings in Malawi. Causal factors previously associated with severe anemia were studied. The data were examined by multivariate analysis and structural equation modeling. Results Bacteremia (adjusted odds ratio, 5.3; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.6 to 10.9), malaria (adjusted odds ratio, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.6 to 3.3), hookworm (adjusted odds ratio, 4.8; 95% CI, 2.0 to 11.8), human immunodeficiency virus infection (adjusted odds ratio, 2.0; 95% CI, 1.0 to 3.8), the G6PD −202/−376 genetic disorder (adjusted odds ratio, 2.4; 95% CI, 1.3 to 4.4), vitamin A deficiency (adjusted odds ratio, 2.8; 95% CI, 1.3 to 5.8), and vitamin B12 deficiency (adjusted od...
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TL;DR: A pilot study showed "haplotype blocks" in 51 regions scattered throughout the genome, which raise important questions about the nature of recombination and highlight practical issues of marker collection, the influence of statistical modelling on apparent block structure, and the levels of genotyping necessary for studies of common diseases.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Mark I. McCarthy | 200 | 1028 | 187898 |
John P. A. Ioannidis | 185 | 1311 | 193612 |
Gonçalo R. Abecasis | 179 | 595 | 230323 |
Simon I. Hay | 165 | 557 | 153307 |
Robert Plomin | 151 | 1104 | 88588 |
Ashok Kumar | 151 | 5654 | 164086 |
Julian Parkhill | 149 | 759 | 104736 |
James F. Wilson | 146 | 677 | 101883 |
Jeremy K. Nicholson | 141 | 773 | 80275 |
Hugh Watkins | 128 | 524 | 91317 |
Erik Ingelsson | 124 | 538 | 85407 |
Claudia Langenberg | 124 | 452 | 67326 |
Adrian V. S. Hill | 122 | 589 | 64613 |
John A. Todd | 121 | 515 | 67413 |
Elaine Holmes | 119 | 560 | 58975 |