Vilmantas Giedraitis
Uppsala University
142 Papers
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Vilmantas Giedraitis is an academic researcher from Uppsala University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Biology. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 108 publications. Previous affiliations of Vilmantas Giedraitis include Dalarna University.
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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Adam E. Locke,Bratati Kahali,Sonja I. Berndt,Anne E. Justice,Tune H. Pers,Felix R. Day,Corey Powell,Sailaja Vedantam,Martin L. Buchkovich,Jian Yang,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Teresa Ferreira,Stefan Gustafsson,Zoltán Kutalik,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Thomas W. Winkler,Andrew R. Wood,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Jessica D. Faul,Jennifer A. Smith,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,Jin Chen,Rudolf S N Fehrmann,Åsa K. Hedman,Juha Karjalainen,Ellen M. Schmidt,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Denise Anderson,Marian Beekman,Jennifer L. Bolton,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Steven Buyske,Ayse Demirkan,Guohong Deng,Georg Ehret,Bjarke Feenstra,Mary F. Feitosa,Krista Fischer,Anuj Goel,Jian Gong,Anne U. Jackson,Stavroula Kanoni,Marcus E. Kleber,Kati Kristiansson,Unhee Lim,Vaneet Lotay,Massimo Mangino,Irene Mateo Leach,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Sarah E. Medland,Mike A. Nalls,Cameron D. Palmer,Dorota Pasko,Sonali Pechlivanis,Marjolein Peters,Inga Prokopenko,Dmitry Shungin,Alena Stančáková,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Toshiko Tanaka,Alexander Teumer,Stella Trompet,Sander W. van der Laan,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Zhaoming Wang,Loic Yengo,Weihua Zhang,Aaron Isaacs,Eva Albrecht,Johan Ärnlöv,Gillian M. Arscott,Antony P. Attwood,Stefania Bandinelli,Amy Barrett,Isabelita Bas,Claire Bellis,Amanda J. Bennett,Christian Berne,Roza Blagieva,Matthias Blüher,Stefan Böhringer,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Yvonne Böttcher,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Ida Henriette Caspersen,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Robert Clarke,E. Warwick Daw,Anton J. M. de Craen,Graciela E. Delgado,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Niina Eklund,Karol Estrada,Elodie Eury,Lasse Folkersen,Ross M. Fraser,Melissa E. Garcia,Frank Geller,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Bruna Gigante,Alan S. Go,Alain Golay,Alison H. Goodall,Scott D. Gordon,Mathias Gorski,Hans-Jörgen Grabe,Harald Grallert,Tanja B. Grammer,Jürgen Gräßler,Henrik Grönberg,Christopher J. Groves,Gaëlle Gusto,Jeffrey Haessler,Per Hall,Toomas Haller,Göran Hallmans,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Quinta Helmer,Christian Hengstenberg,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Alan James,Janina M. Jeff,Åsa Johansson,Jennifer Jolley,Thorhildur Juliusdottir,Leena Kinnunen,Wolfgang Koenig,Markku Koskenvuo,Wolfgang Kratzer,Jaana Laitinen,Claudia Lamina,Karin Leander,Nanette R. Lee,Peter Lichtner,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Ken Sin Lo,Stéphane Lobbens,Roberto Lorbeer,Yingchang Lu,François Mach,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Anubha Mahajan,Wendy L. McArdle,Stela McLachlan,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Evelin Mihailov,Lili Milani,Alireza Moayyeri,Keri L. Monda,Mario A. Morken,Antonella Mulas,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Arthur W. Musk,Ramaiah Nagaraja,Markus M. Nöthen,Ilja M. Nolte,Stefan Pilz,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Rainer Rettig,Janina S. Ried,Stephan Ripke,Neil R. Robertson,Lynda M. Rose,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Salome Scholtens,Fredrick R. Schumacher,William R. Scott,Thomas Seufferlein,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Joanna Smolonska,Alice Stanton,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Kathleen Stirrups,Heather M. Stringham,Johan Sundström,Morris A. Swertz,Amy J. Swift,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Sian-Tsung Tan,Bamidele O. Tayo,Barbara Thorand,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Jonathan Tyrer,Hae-Won Uh,Liesbeth Vandenput,Frank C. Verhulst,Sita H. Vermeulen,Niek Verweij,Judith M. Vonk,Lindsay L. Waite,Helen R. Warren,Dawn M. Waterworth,Michael N. Weedon,Lynne R. Wilkens,Christina Willenborg,Tom Wilsgaard,Mary K. Wojczynski,Andrew Wong,Alan F. Wright,Qunyuan Zhang,Eoin P. Brennan,Murim Choi,Zari Dastani,Alexander W. Drong,Per Eriksson,Anders Franco-Cereceda,Jesper R. Gådin,Ali G. Gharavi,Michael E. Goddard,Robert E. Handsaker,Jinyan Huang,Fredrik Karpe,Sekar Kathiresan,Sarah Keildson,Krzysztof Kiryluk,Michiaki Kubo,Jong-Young Lee,Liming Liang,Richard P. Lifton,Baoshan Ma,Steven A. McCarroll,Amy Jayne McKnight,Josine L. Min,Miriam F. Moffatt,Grant W. Montgomery,Joanne M. Murabito,George Nicholson,Dale R. Nyholt,Yukinori Okada,John R. B. Perry,Rajkumar Dorajoo,Eva Reinmaa,Rany M. Salem,Niina Sandholm,Robert A. Scott,Lisette Stolk,Atsushi Takahashi,Toshihiro Tanaka,Ferdinand M. van't Hooft,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Harm-Jan Westra,Wei Zheng,Krina T. Zondervan,Andrew C. Heath,Dominique Arveiler,Stephan J. L. Bakker,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,John Blangero,Pascal Bovet,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Caulfield,Giancarlo Cesana,Aravinda Chakravarti,Daniel I. Chasman,Peter S. Chines,Francis S. Collins,Dana C. Crawford,L. Adrienne Cupples,Daniele Cusi,John Danesh,Ulf de Faire,Hester M. den Ruijter,Anna F. Dominiczak,Raimund Erbel,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Martin Farrall,Stephan B. Felix,Ele Ferrannini,Jean Ferrières,Ian Ford,Nita G. Forouhi,Terrence Forrester,Oscar H. Franco,Ron T. Gansevoort,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Omri Gottesman,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Alistair S. Hall,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew A. Hicks,Lucia A. Hindorff,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Georg Homuth,G. Kees Hovingh,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Elina Hyppönen,Thomas Illig,Kevin B. Jacobs,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Berit Johansen,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Antti Jula,Jaakko Kaprio,John J.P. Kastelein,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Paul Knekt,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Peter Kovacs,Aldi T. Kraja,Meena Kumari,Johanna Kuusisto,Timo A. Lakka,Claudia Langenberg,Loic Le Marchand,Terho Lehtimäki,Valeriya Lyssenko,Satu Männistö,André Marette,Tara C. Matise,Colin A. McKenzie,Barbara McKnight,Frans L. Moll,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Jeffrey C. Murray,Mari Nelis,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ken K. Ong,Pamela A. F. Madden,Gerard Pasterkamp,John F. Peden,Annette Peters,Dirkje S. Postma,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Lu Qi,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Dabeeru C. Rao,Treva Rice,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Igor Rudan,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Jouko Saramies,Mark A. Sarzynski,Heribert Schunkert,Peter Schwarz,Peter S. Sever,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Ronald P. Stolk,Konstantin Strauch,Anke Tönjes,David-Alexandre Trégouët,Angelo Tremblay,Elena Tremoli,Jarmo Virtamo,Marie-Claude Vohl,Uwe Völker,Gérard Waeber,Gonneke Willemsen,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,M. Carola Zillikens,Linda S. Adair,Philippe Amouyel,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Themistocles L. Assimes,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,Stéphane Cauchi,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Richard S. Cooper,Paul I.W. de Bakker,George Dedoussis,Luigi Ferrucci,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Leif Groop,Christopher A. Haiman,Anders Hamsten,Jennie Hui,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,Robert C. Kaplan,Mika Kivimäki,Diana Kuh,Markku Laakso,Yongmei Liu,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Mads Melbye,Andres Metspalu,Susanne Moebus,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Louis Pérusse,Ulrike Peters,Chris Power,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Fernando Rivadeneira,Timo Saaristo,Danish Saleheen,Naveed Sattar,Eric E. Schadt,David Schlessinger,P. Eline Slagboom,Harold Snieder,Tim D. Spector,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Michael Stumvoll,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,Pim van der Harst,Mark Walker,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,David R. Weir,H-Erich Wichmann,James F. Wilson,Pieter Zanen,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Iris M. Heid,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Lude Franke,Timothy M. Frayling,Mark I. McCarthy,Peter M. Visscher,André Scherag,Cristen J. Willer,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jacques S. Beckmann,Inês Barroso,Kari E. North,Erik Ingelsson,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Ruth J. F. Loos,Elizabeth K. Speliotes +481 more
- 01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: This paper conducted a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals.
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Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height
Andrew R. Wood,Tõnu Esko,Jian Yang,Sailaja Vedantam,Tune H. Pers,Stefan Gustafsson,Audrey Y. Chu,K. Estrada,Jian'an Luan,Zoltán Kutalik,Najaf Amin,Martin L. Buchkovich,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Felix R. Day,Yanan Duan,Tove Fall,Rudolf S N Fehrmann,Teresa Ferreira,Anne U. Jackson,Juha Karjalainen,Ken Sin Lo,Adam E. Locke,Reedik Mägi,Evelin Mihailov,Eleonora Porcu,Joshua C. Randall,André Scherag,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Harm-Jan Westra,Thomas W. Winkler,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Jing Hua Zhao,Devin Absher,Eva Albrecht,Denise Anderson,Jeffrey Baron,Marian Beekman,Ayse Demirkan,Georg Ehret,Bjarke Feenstra,Mary F. Feitosa,Krista Fischer,Ross M. Fraser,Anuj Goel,Jian Gong,Anne E. Justice,Stavroula Kanoni,Marcus E. Kleber,K. Kristiansson,Unhee Lim,Vaneet Lotay,Julian C. Lui,Massimo Mangino,Irene Mateo Leach,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Mike A. Nalls,Dale R. Nyholt,Cameron D. Palmer,Dorota Pasko,Sonali Pechlivanis,Inga Prokopenko,Janina S. Ried,Stephan Ripke,Dmitry Shungin,Alena Stančáková,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Toshiko Tanaka,Alexander Teumer,Stella Trompet,Sander W. van der Laan,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Zhaoming Wang,Loic Yengo,Weihua Zhang,Uzma Afzal,Johan Ärnlöv,Gillian M. Arscott,Stefania Bandinelli,Amy Barrett,Claire Bellis,Amanda J. Bennett,Christian Berne,Matthias Blüher,Jennifer L. Bolton,Yvonne Böttcher,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Brendan M. Buckley,Steven Buyske,Ida Henriette Caspersen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Simone Claudi-Boehm,Mark E. Cooper,E. Warwick Daw,Pim A. de Jong,Joris Deelen,Graciela Delgado,Josh C. Denny,Rosalie A.M. Dhonukshe-Rutten,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Marcus Dörr,Niina Eklund,Elodie Eury,Lasse Folkersen,Melissa E. Garcia,Frank Geller,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Alan S. Go,Harald Grallert,Tanja B. Grammer,Jürgen Gräßler,Henrik Grönberg,Lisette C P G M de Groot,C J Groves,Jeffrey Haessler,Per Hall,T. Haller,Göran Hallmans,Anke Hannemann,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Quinta Helmer,Gibran Hemani,Anjali K. Henders,Hans L. Hillege,Mark A. Hlatky,Wolfgang Hoffmann,Per Hoffmann,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Jeanine J. Houwing-Duistermaat,Thomas Illig,Aaron Isaacs,Alan L. James,Janina M. Jeff,Berit Johansen,Åsa Johansson,Jennifer Jolley,Thorhildur Juliusdottir,Juhani Junttila,Abel N. Kho,Leena Kinnunen,Norman Klopp,Thomas Kocher,Wolfgang Kratzer,Peter Lichtner,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Stéphane Lobbens,Mattias Lorentzon,Yingchang Lu,Valeriya Lyssenko,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Anubha Mahajan,Marc R. Maillard,Wendy L. McArdle,Colin A. McKenzie,Stela McLachlan,Paul J. McLaren,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Lili Milani,Alireza Moayyeri,Keri L. Monda,M. A. Morken,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,A.W. Musk,Narisu Narisu,Matthias Nauck,Ilja M. Nolte,Markus M. Nöthen,Laticia Oozageer,Stefan Pilz,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Neil R. Robertson,Lynda M. Rose,Ronan Roussel,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Salome Scholtens,Fredrick R. Schumacher,Heribert Schunkert,Robert A. Scott,J Sehmi,Thomas Seufferlein,Jianxin Shi,Karri Silventoinen,Johannes H. Smit,Albert V. Smith,Joanna Smolonska,Alice V. Stanton,Kathleen Stirrups,David J. Stott,Heather M. Stringham,Johan Sundström,Morris A. Swertz,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Bamidele O. Tayo,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Jonathan P. Tyrer,Suzanne C. van Dijk,Natasja M. van Schoor,Nathalie van der Velde,Diana van Heemst,Floor V. A. van Oort,S. H. H. M. Vermeulen,Niek Verweij,Judith M. Vonk,Lindsay L. Waite,Melanie Waldenberger,Roman Wennauer,Lynne R. Wilkens,Christina Willenborg,Tom Wilsgaard,Mary K. Wojczynski,Andrew Wong,Alan F. Wright,Qunyuan Zhang,Dominique Arveiler,Stephan J. L. Bakker,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Reiner Biffar,John Blangero,Dorret I. Boomsma,Stefan R. Bornstein,Pascal Bovet,Paolo Brambilla,Morris J. Brown,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Caulfield,Aravinda Chakravarti,Rory Collins,Francis S. Collins,Dana C. Crawford,L. Adrienne Cupples,John Danesh,Ulf de Faire,Hester M. den Ruijter,Raimund Erbel,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Martin Farrall,Ele Ferrannini,Jean Ferrières,Ian Ford,Nita G. Forouhi,Terrence Forrester,Ron T. Gansevoort,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Alain Golay,Omri Gottesman,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,David W. Haas,Alistair S. Hall,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew C. Heath,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Lucia A. Hindorff,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,G. Kees Hovingh,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Elina Hyppönen,Kevin B. Jacobs,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Pekka Jousilahti,Antti Jula,Jaakko Kaprio,John J. P. Kastelein,Manfred Kayser,Frank Kee,Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi S,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Aldi T. Kraja,Meena Kumari,Johanna Kuusisto,Timo A. Lakka,Claudia Langenberg,Loic Le Marchand,Terho Lehtimäki,Sara Lupoli,Pamela A. F. Madden,Satu Männistö,Paolo Manunta,Andre Marette,Tara C. Matise,Barbara McKnight,Thomas Meitinger,Frans L. Moll,Grant W. Montgomery,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Jeffrey C. Murray,Mari Nelis,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ken K. Ong,Willem H. Ouwehand,Gerard Pasterkamp,Annette Peters,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Lu Qi,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Dabeeru C. Rao,Treva Rice,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Igor Rudan,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Jouko Saramies,Mark A. Sarzynski,Peter E. H. Schwarz,Sylvain Sebert,Peter S. Sever,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Ronald P. Stolk,Jean-Claude Tardif,A Tönjes,Angelo Tremblay,Elena Tremoli,Jarmo Virtamo,Marie-Claude Vohl,Philippe Amouyel,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Themistocles L. Assimes,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,Stéphane Cauchi,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Richard S. Cooper,Paul I.W. de Bakker,George Dedoussis,Luigi Ferrucci,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Leif Groop,Christopher A. Haiman,Anders Hamsten,M. Geoffrey Hayes,Jennie Hui,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,J. Wouter Jukema,Robert C. Kaplan,Mika Kivimäki,Diana Kuh,Markku Laakso,Yongmei Liu,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Mads Melbye,Susanne Moebus,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Louis Pérusse,Ulrike Peters,Joseph E. Powell,Chris Power,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Eva Reinmaa,Paul M. Ridker,Fernando Rivadeneira,Jerome I. Rotter,T. Saaristo,Danish Saleheen,David Schlessinger,P. Eline Slagboom,Harold Snieder,Tim D. Spector,Konstantin Strauch,Michael Stumvoll,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Matti Uusitupa,Pim van der Harst,Henry Völzke,Mark Walker,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,H.-Erich Wichmann,James F. Wilson,Pieter Zanen,Panos Deloukas,Iris M. Heid,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Karen L. Mohlke,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Inês Barroso,Caroline S. Fox,Kari E. North,David P. Strachan,Jacques S. Beckmann,Sonja I. Berndt,Michael Boehnke,Ingrid B. Borecki,Mark I. McCarthy,Andres Metspalu,Kari Stefansson,André G. Uitterlinden,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Lude Franke,Cristen J. Willer,Alkes L. Price,Guillaume Lettre,Ruth J. F. Loos,Michael N. Weedon,Erik Ingelsson,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Daniel I. Chasman,Michael E. Goddard,Peter M. Visscher,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Timothy M. Frayling +444 more
TL;DR: This article identified 697 variants at genome-wide significance that together explained one-fifth of the heritability for adult height, and all common variants together captured 60% of heritability.
Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.
Anubha Mahajan,Daniel Taliun,Matthias Thurner,Neil R. Robertson,Jason M. Torres,N. William Rayner,N. William Rayner,Anthony Payne,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Robert A. Scott,Niels Grarup,James P. Cook,Ellen M. Schmidt,Matthias Wuttke,Chloé Sarnowski,Reedik Mägi,Jana Nano,Christian Gieger,Stella Trompet,Cécile Lecoeur,Michael Preuss,Bram P. Prins,Xiuqing Guo,Lawrence F. Bielak,Jennifer E. Below,Donald W. Bowden,John C. Chambers,Young-Jin Kim,Maggie C.Y. Ng,Lauren E. Petty,Xueling Sim,Weihua Zhang,Weihua Zhang,Amanda J. Bennett,Jette Bork-Jensen,Chad M. Brummett,Mickaël Canouil,Kai-Uwe Ec Kardt,Krista Fischer,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Florian Kronenberg,Kristi Läll,Ching-Ti Liu,Adam E. Locke,Jian'an Luan,Ioanna Ntalla,Vibe Nylander,Sebastian Schönherr,Claudia Schurmann,Loic Yengo,Erwin P. Bottinger,Ivan Brandslund,Cramer Christensen,George Dedoussis,Jose C. Florez,Ian Ford,Oscar H. Franco,Timothy M. Frayling,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Sophie Hackinger,Andrew T. Hattersley,Christian Herder,M. Arfan Ikram,Martin Ingelsson,Marit E. Jørgensen,Marit E. Jørgensen,Torben Jørgensen,Torben Jørgensen,Jennifer Kriebel,Johanna Kuusisto,Symen Ligthart,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Allan Linneberg,Allan Linneberg,Valeriya Lyssenko,Valeriya Lyssenko,Vasiliki Mamakou,Thomas Meitinger,Karen L. Mohlke,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew D. Morris,Girish N. Nadkarni,James S. Pankow,Annette Peters,Naveed Sattar,Alena Stančáková,Konstantin Strauch,Kent D. Taylor,Barbara Thorand,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Daniel R. Witte,Josée Dupuis,Patricia A. Peyser,Eleftheria Zeggini,Ruth J. F. Loos,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Erik Ingelsson,Erik Ingelsson,Lars Lind,Leif Groop,Leif Groop,Markku Laakso,Francis S. Collins,J. Wouter Jukema,Colin N. A. Palmer,Harald Grallert,Andres Metspalu,Abbas Dehghan,Abbas Dehghan,Anna Köttgen,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,James B. Meigs,Jerome I. Rotter,Jonathan Marchini,Oluf Pedersen,Torben Hansen,Torben Hansen,Claudia Langenberg,Nicholas J. Wareham,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Anna L. Gloyn,Andrew P. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy +131 more
TL;DR: Combining 32 genome-wide association studies with high-density imputation provides a comprehensive view of the genetic contribution to type 2 diabetes in individuals of European ancestry with respect to locus discovery, causal-variant resolution, and mechanistic insight.
New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Céline Bellenguez,Fahri Küçükali,Iris E. Jansen,Luca Kleineidam,Sonia Moreno-Grau,Najaf Amin,Adam C. Naj,R. Campos-Martín,Benjamin Grenier-Boley,Víctor Andrade,Peter Holmans,Anne Boland,Vincent Damotte,S. J. van der Lee,Marcos R. Costa,Teemu Kuulasmaa,Qiong Yang,Itziar de Rojas,Joshua C. Bis,Amber Yaqub,Ivana Prokic,Julien Chapuis,Shahzad Ahmad,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Dag Aarsland,Carla Abdelnour,Emilio Alarcón-Martín,Daniel Alcolea,Montserrat Alegret,Ignacio Alvarez,Victoria Alvarez,Nicola J. Armstrong,Anthoula Tsolaki,Carmen Antúnez,Ildebrando Appollonio,Marina Arcaro,Silvana Archetti,Alfonso Arias Pastor,Beatrice Arosio,Lavinia Athanasiu,Henri Bailly,Nerisa Banaj,Miquel Baquero,Sandra Barral,Alexa S. Beiser,Ana Pastor,Jennifer E. Below,Penny Benchek,Luisa Benussi,Claudine Berr,Céline Besse,Valentina Bessi,Giuliano Binetti,Alessandra Bizarro,Rafael Blesa,Mercè Boada,Eric Boerwinkle,S. Borroni,Silvia Boschi,Paola Bossù,Geir Bråthen,Jan Bressler,Catherine Bresner,Henry Brodaty,Keeley J. Brookes,Luis I. Brusco,Dolores Buiza-Rueda,Katharina Bürger,Vanessa Burholt,William S. Bush,Miguel Calero,Laura B. Cantwell,Geneviève Chêne,Jaeyoon Chung,Michael L. Cuccaro,Angel Carracedo,Roberta Cecchetti,Laura Cervera-Carles,Camille Charbonnier,Hung-Hsin Chen,Caterina Chillotti,Simona Ciccone,Jurgen A.H.R. Claassen,Christopher M. Clark,Elisa Conti,Anaïs Corma-Gómez,Emanuele Maria Costantini,Carlo Custodero,D. Daian,Maria Carolina Dalmasso,Antonio Daniele,Efthimios Dardiotis,Jean-François Dartigues,Peter Paul De Deyn,Katia de Paiva Lopes,Lot de Witte,Stéphanie Debette,Jürgen Deckert,Teodoro Del Ser,Nicola Denning,Anita L. DeStefano,Martin Dichgans,Janine Diehl-Schmid,Monica Diez-Fairen,Paolo Rosso,Srdjan Djurovic,Emmanuelle Duron,Emrah Düzel,Carole Dufouil,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Sebastiaan Engelborghs,Valentina Escott-Price,Ana Espinosa,Michael Ewers,Kelley Faber,Tagliavini Fabrizio,Sune F. Nielsen,David W. Fardo,Lucia Farotti,Chiara Fenoglio,Marta Fernández-Fuertes,Raffaele Ferrari,Catarina Beatriz Silva Ferreira,Evelyn Ferri,Bertrand Fin,Peter Fischer,Tormod Fladby,Klaus Fliessbach,Bernard Fongang,Myriam Fornage,Juan Fortea,Tatiana Foroud,Silvia Fostinelli,Nick C. Fox,Emilio Franco-Macías,María J. Bullido,Ana Frank-García,Lutz Froelich,Brian Fulton-Howard,Daniela Galimberti,José María García-Alberca,Pablo Garcia-Gonzalez,Sebastián García-Madrona,Guillermo García-Ribas,Roberta Ghidoni,Ina Giegling,Giaccone Giorgio,Alison Goate,Oliver Goldhardt,Duber Gomez-Fonseca,Antonio González-Pérez,Caroline Graff,Giulia Grande,Emma Green,Timo Grimmer,Edna Grünblatt,Michelle Grunin,Vilmundur Gudnason,Tamar Guetta-Baranes,Annakaisa Haapasalo,Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou,Jonathan L. Haines,Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson,Harald Hampel,Olivier Hanon,John Hardy,T. Hartmann,Lucrezia Hausner,Janet C Harwood,Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach,Seppo Helisalmi,Michael T. Heneka,Isabel Hernández,Martin J. Herrmann,Per Hoffmann,Clive Holmes,Henne Holstege,Raquel Huerto Vilas,Marc Hulsman,Jack Humphrey,Geert Jan Biessels,Xueqiu Jian,Charlotte Johansson,Gyungah Jun,Y. Kastumata,John S. K. Kauwe,Patrick G. Kehoe,Lena Kilander,Anne Kinhult Ståhlbom,Miia Kivipelto,Anne M. Koivisto,Johannes Kornhuber,Mary H. Kosmidis,Walter A. Kukull,Pavel P. Kuksa,Brian W. Kunkle,Amanda B. Kuzma,Carmen Lage,Erika J. Laukka,Lenore J. Launer,Alessandra Lauria,Chien‐Yueh Lee,Jenni Lehtisalo,Ondrej Lerch,Alberto Lleó,W. T. Longstreth,Oscar L. Lopez,Adolfo López de Munain,Seth Love,Malin Löwemark,L. Luckcuck,Kathryn L. Lunetta,Yiyi Ma,Juan Macías,Catherine A. MacLeod,Wolfgang Mader,Francesca Mangialasche,Marco Spallazzi,Marta Marquié,Rachel Marshall,Eden R. Martin,Angel Martin Montes,Carmen Martinez Rodriguez,Carlo Masullo,Richard Mayeux,Simon Head,Patrizia Mecocci,Miguel Medina,Alun Meggy,Shima Mehrabian,Silvia Mendoza,Manuel Menéndez-González,Pablo Mir,Susanne Moebus,Merel O. Mol,Laura Molina-Porcel,Laura Montrreal,Laura Morelli,Fermin Moreno,Kevin Morgan,Thomas H. Mosley,Markus M. Nöthen,Carolina Muchnik,Shubhabrata Mukherjee,Benedetta Nacmias,Tiia Ngandu,Gaël Nicolas,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Robert Olaso,Adelina Orellana,Michela Orsini,G. Ortega,Alessandro Padovani,Caffarra Paolo,Goran Papenberg,Lucilla Parnetti,Florence Pasquier,Pau Pastor,Gina M. Peloso,Alba Pérez-Cordón,Jordi Pérez-Tur,Pierre Pericard,Oliver Peters,Yolande A.L. Pijnenburg,Juan A. Pineda,Gerard Piñol-Ripoll,Claudia Pisanu,Thomas Polak,Julius Popp,Danielle Posthuma,Josef Priller,Raquel Delgado Puerta,Olivier Quenez,Inés Quintela,Jesper Qvist Thomassen,Alberto Rábano,Innocenzo Rainero,Farid Rajabli,Inez H.G.B. Ramakers,Luis Miguel Real,Marcel J. T. Reinders,Christiane Reitz,Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer,Perry G. Ridge,Steffi G. Riedel-Heller,Peter Riederer,Natalia Roberto,Eloy Rodríguez-Rodríguez,Arvid Rongve,I. Allende,Maitée Rosende-Roca,Jose Luis Royo,Elisa Rubino,Dan Rujescu,María Eugenia Sáez,Paraskevi Sakka,Ingvild Saltvedt,Angela Sanabria,M B Sánchez-Arjona,Florentino Sanchez-Garcia,Pascual Sanchez Juan,Raquel Sánchez-Valle,Sigrid Botne Sando,Chloé Sarnowski,Claudia L. Satizabal,Michela Scamosci,Nikolaos Scarmeas,Elio Scarpini,Philip Scheltens,Norbert Scherbaum,Martin Scherer,Matthias Schmid,Anja Schneider,Jonathan M. Schott,Geir Selbæk,Davide Seripa,Manuel Serrano,Jin Sha,Alexey A. Shadrin,Olivia Anna Skrobot,Susan Slifer,G. Snijders,Hilkka Soininen,Vincenzo Solfrizzi,Alina Solomon,Yeunjoo E. Song,Sandro Sorbi,Oscar Sotolongo-Grau,Gianfranco Spalletta,Annika Spottke,Alessio Squassina,Eystein Stordal,Juan Pablo Tartan,Lluís Tárraga,Niccolò Tesi,Anbupalam Thalamuthu,Tegos Thomas,Giuseppe Tosto,Latchezar Traykov,Lucio Tremolizzo,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,André G. Uitterlinden,Abbe Ullgren,Ingun Ulstein,Sergi Valero,Otto Valladares,Christine Van Broeckhoven,Jeffery M. Vance,Badri N. Vardarajan,Aad Van Der Lugt,Jasper Van Dongen,Jeroen van Rooij,John C. van Swieten,Rik Vandenberghe,Frans R.J. Verhey,Jean-Sébastien Vidal,Jonathan Vogelgsang,Martin Vyhnalek,Michael Wagner,David Wallon,Li-San Wang,Ruiqi Wang,Leonie Weinhold,Jens Wiltfang,Gill Windle,Bob Woods,Mary Yannakoulia,Habil Zare,Yi Zhao,Xiaoling Zhang,Congcong Zhu,Miren Zulaica,Lindsay A. Farrer,Bruce M. Psaty,Mohsen Ghanbari,Towfique Raj,Perminder S. Sachdev,Karen A. Mather,Frank Jessen,M. Arfan Ikram,Alexandre de Mendonça,Jakub Hort,Magda Tsolaki,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance,Philippe Amouyel,Julie Williams,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Jordi Clarimón,Jean-François Deleuze,Giacomina Rossi,Sudha Seshadri,Ole A. Andreassen,Martin Ingelsson,Mikko Hiltunen,Kristel Sleegers,Gerard D. Schellenberg,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Rebecca Sims,Wiesje M. van der Flier,Agustín Ruiz,Alfredo Ramirez,Jean-Charles Lambert +401 more
TL;DR: This paper performed a two-stage genome-wide association study with 111,326 clinically diagnosed/proxy AD cases and 677,663 controls and found 75 risk loci, of which 42 were new at the time of analysis.
Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.
Evangelos Evangelou,Evangelos Evangelou,Helen R. Warren,Helen R. Warren,David Mosen-Ansorena,Borbala Mifsud,Raha Pazoki,He Gao,Georgios Ntritsos,Niki Dimou,Claudia P. Cabrera,Claudia P. Cabrera,Ibrahim Karaman,Fu Liang Ng,Marina Evangelou,K. Witkowska,Evan Tzanis,Jacklyn N. Hellwege,Ayush Giri,Digna R. Velez Edwards,Yan V. Sun,Kelly Cho,Kelly Cho,J. Michael Gaziano,J. Michael Gaziano,Peter W.F. Wilson,Philip S. Tsao,Csaba P. Kovesdy,Tõnu Esko,Tõnu Esko,Reedik Mägi,Lili Milani,Peter Almgren,Thibaud Boutin,Stéphanie Debette,Jun Ding,Franco Giulianini,Elizabeth G. Holliday,Anne U. Jackson,Ruifang Li-Gao,Wei-Yu Lin,Jian'an Luan,Massimo Mangino,Massimo Mangino,Christopher Oldmeadow,Bram P. Prins,Yong Qian,Muralidharan Sargurupremraj,Nabi Shah,Nabi Shah,Praveen Surendran,Sébastien Thériault,Sébastien Thériault,Niek Verweij,Niek Verweij,Niek Verweij,Sara M. Willems,Jing Hua Zhao,Philippe Amouyel,John M. C. Connell,Renée de Mutsert,Alex S. F. Doney,Martin Farrall,Martin Farrall,Cristina Menni,Andrew D. Morris,Raymond Noordam,Guillaume Paré,Neil Poulter,Denis C. Shields,Alice Stanton,Simon Thom,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Najaf Amin,Dan E. Arking,Kristin L. Ayers,Kristin L. Ayers,Caterina Barbieri,Chiara Batini,Joshua C. Bis,Tineka Blake,Murielle Bochud,Michael Boehnke,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Erwin P. Bottinger,Peter S. Braund,Peter S. Braund,Marco Brumat,Archie Campbell,Harry Campbell,Aravinda Chakravarti,John C. Chambers,Ganesh Chauhan,Marina Ciullo,Massimiliano Cocca,Francis S. Collins,Heather J. Cordell,Gail Davies,Martin H. de Borst,Eco J. C. de Geus,Ian J. Deary,Joris Deelen,Fabiola Del Greco M,Cumhur Y Demirkale,Marcus Dörr,Georg Ehret,Georg Ehret,Roberto Elosua,Stefan Enroth,A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu,Teresa Ferreira,Mattias Frånberg,Mattias Frånberg,Oscar H. Franco,Ilaria Gandin,Paolo Gasparini,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Christian Gieger,Giorgia Girotto,Anuj Goel,Anuj Goel,Alan J. Gow,Alan J. Gow,Vilmundur Gudnason,Xiuqing Guo,Ulf Gyllensten,Anders Hamsten,Tamara B. Harris,Sarah E. Harris,Catharina A. Hartman,Aki S. Havulinna,Aki S. Havulinna,Andrew A. Hicks,Edith Hofer,Albert Hofman,Albert Hofman,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Jennifer E. Huffman,Jennifer E. Huffman,Shih-Jen Hwang,Erik Ingelsson,Erik Ingelsson,Alan James,Alan James,Rick Jansen,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Roby Joehanes,Åsa Johansson,Andrew D. Johnson,Peter K. Joshi,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Antti Jula,Mika Kähönen,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Bernard Keavney,Bernard Keavney,Kay-Tee Khaw,Paul Knekt,Joanne Knight,Ivana Kolcic,Jaspal S. Kooner,Seppo Koskinen,Kati Kristiansson,Zoltán Kutalik,Zoltán Kutalik,Maris Laan,Marty Larson,Lenore J. Launer,Benjamin Lehne,Terho Lehtimäki,David C. Liewald,Li Lin,Lars Lind,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Yongmei Liu,Ruth J. F. Loos,Ruth J. F. Loos,Lorna M. Lopez,Lorna M. Lopez,Lorna M. Lopez,Yingchang Lu,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,Anubha Mahajan,Chrysovalanto Mamasoula,Jaume Marrugat,Jonathan Marten,Yuri Milaneschi,Anna Morgan,Andrew P. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Alanna C. Morrison,Peter J. Munson,Mike A. Nalls,Priyanka Nandakumar,Christopher P. Nelson,Christopher P. Nelson,Teemu J. Niiranen,Teemu J. Niiranen,Ilja M. Nolte,Teresa Nutile,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ben A. Oostra,Paul F. O'Reilly,Elin Org,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Walter Palmas,Aarno Palotie,Aarno Palotie,Aarno Palotie,Alison Pattie,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Annette Peters,Ozren Polasek,Peter P. Pramstaller,Quang Tri Nguyen,Olli T. Raitakari,Olli T. Raitakari,Meixia Ren,Rainer Rettig,Kenneth Rice,Paul M. Ridker,Paul M. Ridker,Janina S. Ried,Harriëtte Riese,Samuli Ripatti,Antonietta Robino,Lynda M. Rose,Jerome I. Rotter,Igor Rudan,Daniela Ruggiero,Yasaman Saba,Cinzia Sala,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Antti-Pekka Sarin,Reinhold Schmidt,Helena Schmidt,Nick Shrine,David S. Siscovick,Albert V. Smith,Harold Snieder,Siim Sõber,Rossella Sorice,John M. Starr,David J. Stott,David P. Strachan,Rona J. Strawbridge,Johan Sundström,Morris A. Swertz,Kent D. Taylor,Alexander Teumer,Martin D. Tobin,Maciej Tomaszewski,Maciej Tomaszewski,Daniela Toniolo,Michela Traglia,Stella Trompet,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Christophe Tzourio,André G. Uitterlinden,Ahmad Vaez,Ahmad Vaez,Peter J. van der Most,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Anne-Claire Vergnaud,Germaine C. Verwoert,Veronique Vitart,Uwe Völker,Peter Vollenweider,Dragana Vuckovic,Dragana Vuckovic,Hugh Watkins,Hugh Watkins,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,James F. Wilson,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,Jie Yao,Tatijana Zemunik,Weihua Zhang,Weihua Zhang,John Attia,Adam S. Butterworth,Adam S. Butterworth,Daniel I. Chasman,Daniel I. Chasman,David Conen,David Conen,Francesco Cucca,Francesco Cucca,John Danesh,John Danesh,Caroline Hayward,Joanna M. M. Howson,Markku Laakso,Edward G. Lakatta,Claudia Langenberg,Olle Melander,Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,Colin N. A. Palmer,Lorenz Risch,Robert A. Scott,Rodney J. Scott,Peter S. Sever,Tim D. Spector,Pim van der Harst,Nicholas J. Wareham,Eleftheria Zeggini,Daniel Levy,Patricia B. Munroe,Patricia B. Munroe,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Morris J. Brown,Morris J. Brown,Andres Metspalu,Adriana M. Hung,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Todd L. Edwards,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,Ioanna Tzoulaki,Ioanna Tzoulaki,Michael R. Barnes,Michael R. Barnes,Louise V. Wain,Louise V. Wain,Paul Elliott,Mark J. Caulfield,Mark J. Caulfield +341 more
TL;DR: In this article, the largest genetic association study of blood pressure traits (systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure) to date in over 1 million people of European ancestry was conducted.