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What can genome-wide association studies tell us about the genetics of common disease?Mark M Iles
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
PLoS Genet 4:e33. 2008..Thus, although the truth of the common disease / common variant hypothesis remains undecided, recent successes suggest that there are many more common genetic disease-associated variants, requiring larger studies to be identified...
Quantification and correction of bias in tagging SNPs caused by insufficient sample size and marker density by means of haplotype-droppingMark M Iles
Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Genet Epidemiol 32:20-8. 2008..This has obvious ramifications for tSNP selection both in candidate regions and using HapMap or SNP chips for genomewide studies...
The impact of incomplete linkage disequilibrium and genetic model choice on the analysis and interpretation of genome-wide association studiesMark M Iles
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, St James s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK
Ann Hum Genet 74:375-9. 2010..This may lead to problems in interpreting risk estimates...
Genome-wide association study identifies three new melanoma susceptibility lociJennifer H Barrett
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Leeds Cancer Research UK Centre, St James s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Nat Genet 43:1108-13. 2011..6 × 10(-7) under a fixed-effects model and P = 1.2 × 10(-3) under a random-effects model). These newly associated variants showed no association with nevus or pigmentation phenotypes in a large British case-control series...
Melanocytic nevi, nevus genes, and melanoma risk in a large case-control study in the United KingdomJulia A Newton-Bishop
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, St James s Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:2043-54. 2010..Increased number of melanocytic nevi is a potent melanoma risk factor. We have carried out a large population-based case-control study to explore the environmental and genetic determinants of nevi and the relationship with melanoma risk...
Analysis of variants in DNA damage signalling genes in bladder cancerAnanya Choudhury
Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, Section of Oncology, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK
BMC Med Genet 9:69. 2008..We hypothesized that SNPs in DSB signalling genes may modulate predisposition to bladder cancer and influence the effects of environmental exposures...
Genome-wide association study identifies three loci associated with melanoma riskD Timothy Bishop
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre at Leeds, St James s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Nat Genet 41:920-5. 2009..Despite wide variation in allele frequency, these genetic variants show notable homogeneity of effect across populations of European ancestry living at different latitudes and show independent association to disease risk...
Pathway-based analysis of a melanoma genome-wide association study: analysis of genes related to tumour-immunosuppressionNils Schoof
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 6:e29451. 2011..As one of the first attempts to replicate a pathway-level association, our results suggest that low power and heterogeneity may present challenges...
Genome-wide association studiesMark M Iles
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Methods Mol Biol 713:89-103. 2011..After some background and an introduction to GWA, studies are considered stage-by-stage with particular focus on quality control as this is by far the most time-consuming and complex issue related to GWA...
Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesityRuth J F Loos
MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
Nat Genet 40:768-75. 2008....
Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variantsPaul R Burton
Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Adrian Building, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Nat Genet 39:1329-37. 2007....
Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery diseaseNilesh J Samani
University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
N Engl J Med 357:443-53. 2007..Modern genotyping platforms permit a systematic search for inherited components of complex diseases. We performed a joint analysis of two genomewide association studies of coronary artery disease...
Recombination can evolve in large finite populations given selection on sufficient lociMark M Iles
Mathematical Modelling and Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2JF, United Kingdom
Genetics 165:2249-58. 2003..Thus fixation of a particular haplotype is less likely to occur, increasing the advantage of recombination...
Additional genetic susceptibility for rheumatoid arthritis telomeric of the DRB1 locusRachael Kilding
The University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Arthritis Rheum 50:763-9. 2004..This is a genomic segment of high linkage disequilibrium containing a large number of poorly characterized immunomodulatory genes...
Sequential genotyping within TDT familiesMark M Iles
Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK
Math Med Biol 21:115-27. 2004..We discuss the practical application of such sequential genotyping and illustrate its potential using a real data set...
Linkage and association. The transmission/disequilibrium test for QTLsMark M Iles
Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK
Methods Mol Biol 195:101-38. 2002
Single-point haplotype scores telomeric to human leukocyte antigen-C give a high susceptibility major histocompatibility complex haplotype for psoriasis in a Caucasian populationNick Lench
Oxagen Limited, Abingdon, Oxon, UK
J Invest Dermatol 124:545-52. 2005..53; p=0.0051). Our results give scores as high as the highest single-point scores suggesting that it is unlikely to be able to discriminate the origin of the association on this analysis on strength of association...
Linkage disequilibrium mapping of CHEK2: common variation and breast cancer riskKristjana Einarsdóttir
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS Med 3:e168. 2006..In this study, we aimed to assess the importance of common CHEK2 variants on population risk for breast cancer by capturing the majority of diversity in the gene using haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (tagSNPs)...
Replication of genome-wide association signals in UK samples reveals risk loci for type 2 diabetesEleftheria Zeggini
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
Science 316:1336-41. 2007..The regions identified underscore the importance of pathways influencing pancreatic beta cell development and function in the etiology of type 2 diabetes...
Meta-analysis of genome-wide studies of psoriasis susceptibility reveals linkage to chromosomes 6p21 and 4q28-q31 in Caucasian and Chinese Hans populationGurdeep S Sagoo
Biomedical Genetics Project, Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
J Invest Dermatol 122:1401-5. 2004..To overcome this problem, we suggest that future studies condition on the effect of the PSORS1 locus...
Genetic determinants of ulcerative colitis include the ECM1 locus and five loci implicated in Crohn's diseaseSheila A Fisher
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King s College London School of Medicine, 8th Floor Guy s Tower, Guy s Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK
Nat Genet 40:710-2. 2008..These data provide the first detailed illustration of the genetic relationship between these common inflammatory bowel diseases...
The effect of SNP marker density on the efficacy of haplotype tagging SNPs--a warningMark M Iles
University of Sheffield, UK
Ann Hum Genet 69:209-15. 2005..Such findings are important both for individual studies utilising htSNPs to reduce costs, and for projects such as HapMap which try to characterise human genomic variation using htSNPs...
