Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

…, P Hollingworth, R Sims, A Gerrish, ML Hamshere… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
We undertook a two-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease (AD)
involving over 16,000 individuals, the most powerful AD GWAS to date. In stage 1 (3,941 …

Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease

…, MM Carrasquillo, R Abraham, ML Hamshere… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
We sought to identify new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease through a staged
association study (GERAD+) and by testing suggestive loci reported by the Alzheimer's Disease …

Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

…, T Peirce, V Moskvina, I Nikolov, M Hamshere… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We carried out a genome-wide association study of schizophrenia (479 cases, 2,937 controls)
and tested loci with P < 10 −5 in up to 16,726 additional subjects. Of 12 loci followed up, 3 …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

…, N Durmishi, M Gill, V Golimbet, ML Hamshere… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is an idiopathic mental disorder with a heritable component and a substantial
public health impact. We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) …

Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role for ANK3 and CACNA1C in bipolar disorder

…, J Stone, I Nikolov, K Chambert, ML Hamshere… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
To identify susceptibility loci for bipolar disorder, we tested 1.8 million variants in 4,387 cases
and 6,209 controls and identified a region of strong association (rs10994336, P = 9.1 × 10 −…

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

…, SE Legge, S Bishop, D Cameron, ML Hamshere… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

…, J Guzman-Parra, ML Hamshere, M Hautzinger… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent, …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling linkage disequilibrium increases accuracy of polygenic risk scores

…, C Hammer, ML Hamshere, M Hansen… - The american journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores have shown great promise in predicting complex disease risk and will
become more accurate as training sample sizes increase. The standard approach for …

Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

…, J Gratten, L De Haan, ML Hamshere, M Hansen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) have been strongly implicated in the genetic etiology of
schizophrenia (SCZ). However, genome-wide investigation of the contribution of CNV to risk has …

[PDF][PDF] Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

…, C Hammer, ML Hamshere, M Hansen… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Regulatory and coding variants are known to be enriched with associations identified by
genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex disease, but their contributions to trait …