Genome-wide analysis of insomnia in 1,331,010 individuals identifies new risk loci and functional pathways

Nature Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 394-403

  Jansen, Philip R ^a,b   Watanabe, Kyoko ^a   Stringer, Sven ^a   Skene, Nathan ^c,d   Bryois, Julien ^c   Hammerschlag, Anke R ^a   de Leeuw, Christiaan A ^a   Benjamins, Jeroen S ^e,f   Muñoz Manchado, Ana B ^c   Nagel, Mats ^a,g   Savage, Jeanne E ^a   Tiemeier, Henning ^b   White, Tonya ^b   Agee, Michelle ^h   Alipanahi, Babak ^h   Auton, Adam ^h   Bell, Robert K ^h   Bryc, Katarzyna ^h   Elson, Sarah L ^h   Fontanillas, Pierre ^h   Furlotte, Nicholas A ^h   Hinds, David A ^h   Huber, Karen E ^h   Kleinman, Aaron ^h   Litterman, Nadia K ^h   McCreight, Jennifer C ^h   McIntyre, Matthew H ^h   Mountain, Joanna L ^h   Noblin, Elizabeth S ^h   Northover, Carrie A M ^h   Pitts, Steven J ^h   Sathirapongsasuti, J Fah ^h   Sazonova, Olga V ^h   Shelton, Janie F ^h   Shringarpure, Suyash ^h   Tian, Chao ^h   Wilson, Catherine H ^h   Tung, Joyce Y ^h   Vacic, Vladimir ^h   Wang, Xin ^h   Sullivan, Patrick F ^d,i   van der Sluis, Sophie ^a,g   Polderman, Tinca J C ^a   Smit, August B ^a   Hjerling Leffler, Jens ^c   Van Someren, Eus J W ^j,k   Posthuma, Danielle ^a,g   more..

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g Amsterdam University Medical Center   (Netherlands)

^h University of North Carolina ^*  (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^k VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CHROMATIN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NEUROSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PLEIOTROPY; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLEEP TIME; THALAMUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SLEEP;

CHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 85062106137     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0333-3     Document Type: Article

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