Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

Nature

Volumn 570, Issue 7762, 2019, Pages 514-518

  Wojcik, Genevieve L ^a   Graff, Mariaelisa ^b   Nishimura, Katherine K ^c   Tao, Ran ^d   Haessler, Jeffrey ^c   Gignoux, Christopher R ^a,e   Highland, Heather M ^b   Patel, Yesha M ^f   Sorokin, Elena P ^a   Avery, Christy L ^b   Belbin, Gillian M ^g   Bien, Stephanie A ^c   Cheng, Iona ^h   Cullina, Sinead ^g   Hodonsky, Chani J ^b   Hu, Yao ^c   Huckins, Laura M ^g   Jeff, Janina ^g   Justice, Anne E ^b   Kocarnik, Jonathan M ^c   Lim, Unhee ⁱ   Lin, Bridget M ^b   Lu, Yingchang ^g   Nelson, Sarah C ^j   Park, Sung Shim L ^f   Poisner, Hannah ^g   Preuss, Michael H ^g   Richard, Melissa A ^k   Schurmann, Claudia ^g,l   Setiawan, Veronica W ^f   Sockell, Alexandra ^a   Vahi, Karan ^m   Verbanck, Marie ^g   Vishnu, Abhishek ^g   Walker, Ryan W ^g   Young, Kristin L ^b   Zubair, Niha ^c   Acuña Alonso, Victor ⁿ   Ambite, Jose Luis ^m   Barnes, Kathleen C ^e   Boerwinkle, Eric ^o   Bottinger, Erwin P ^g,l   Bustamante, Carlos D ^a   Caberto, Christian ⁱ   Canizales Quinteros, Samuel ^p   Conomos, Matthew P ^j   Deelman, Ewa ^m   Do, Ron ^g   Doheny, Kimberly ^q   Fernández Rhodes, Lindsay ^b,r   Fornage, Myriam ^k   Hailu, Benyam ^s   Heiss, Gerardo ^b   Henn, Brenna M ^t   Hindorff, Lucia A ^u   Jackson, Rebecca D ^v   Laurie, Cecelia A ^j   Laurie, Cathy C ^j   Li, Yuqing ^h,w   Lin, Dan Yu ^b   Moreno Estrada, Andres ^x   Nadkarni, Girish ^g   Norman, Paul J ^e   Pooler, Loreall C ^f   Reiner, Alexander P ^j   Romm, Jane ^q   Sabatti, Chiara ^a   Sandoval, Karla ^x   Sheng, Xin ^f   Stahl, Eli A ^g   Stram, Daniel O ^f   Thornton, Timothy A ^j   Wassel, Christina L ^y   Wilkens, Lynne R ⁱ   Winkler, Cheryl A ^z   Yoneyama, Sachi ^b   Buyske, Steven ^aa   Haiman, Christopher A ^f   Kooperberg, Charles ^c   Le Marchand, Loic ⁱ   Loos, Ruth J F ^g   Matise, Tara C ^aa   North, Kari E ^b   Peters, Ulrike ^c   Kenny, Eimear E ^g   Carlson, Christopher S ^c   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^p INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE MEDICINA GENÓMICA   (Mexico)

^q JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^u NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^v THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^w CANCER PREVENTION INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^x National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (Langebio)   (Mexico)

^y UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^z Laboratory of Cancer Prevention   (United States)

^aa RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN;

BODY MASS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HISPANIC; MALE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MINORITY GROUP; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PROCEDURES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEALTH EQUITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 85068067624     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1310-4     Document Type: Article

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