Jian Yang

Summary

Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi The genetic interpretation of area under the ROC curve in genomic profiling
    Naomi R Wray
    Genetic Epidemiology and Queensland Statistical Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    PLoS Genet 6:e1000864. 2010
  2. ncbi A commentary on 'common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height' by Yang et al. (2010)
    Peter M Visscher
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Twin Res Hum Genet 13:517-24. 2010
  3. ncbi Sporadic cases are the norm for complex disease
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Eur J Hum Genet 18:1039-43. 2010
  4. ncbi Genomic inflation factors under polygenic inheritance
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Eur J Hum Genet 19:807-12. 2011
  5. ncbi GCTA: a tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
    Am J Hum Genet 88:76-82. 2011
  6. ncbi Comparing apples and oranges: equating the power of case-control and quantitative trait association studies
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Genet Epidemiol 34:254-7. 2010
  7. ncbi Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Nat Genet 44:369-75, S1-3. 2012
  8. ncbi Estimating the proportion of variation in susceptibility to schizophrenia captured by common SNPs
    S Hong Lee
    Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    Nat Genet 44:247-50. 2012
  9. ncbi Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Nat Genet 42:565-9. 2010
  10. ncbi FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index
    Jian Yang
    University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4102, Australia
    Nature 490:267-72. 2012

Detail Information

Publications13

  1. ncbi The genetic interpretation of area under the ROC curve in genomic profiling
    Naomi R Wray
    Genetic Epidemiology and Queensland Statistical Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    PLoS Genet 6:e1000864. 2010
    ..We provide a strategy to estimate proportion of genetic variance explained on the liability scale from estimates of AUC, disease prevalence, and heritability (or sibling recurrence risk) available as an online calculator...
  2. ncbi A commentary on 'common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height' by Yang et al. (2010)
    Peter M Visscher
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Twin Res Hum Genet 13:517-24. 2010
    ..We also report a number of additional results that show that the estimates of additive genetic variation are not driven by population structure...
  3. ncbi Sporadic cases are the norm for complex disease
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Eur J Hum Genet 18:1039-43. 2010
    ....
  4. ncbi Genomic inflation factors under polygenic inheritance
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Eur J Hum Genet 19:807-12. 2011
    ..Our predictions are consistent with empirical observations on height in independent samples of ~4000 and ~133,000 individuals...
  5. ncbi GCTA: a tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
    Am J Hum Genet 88:76-82. 2011
    ..The GCTA software is a versatile tool to estimate and partition complex trait variation with large GWAS data sets...
  6. ncbi Comparing apples and oranges: equating the power of case-control and quantitative trait association studies
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Genet Epidemiol 34:254-7. 2010
    ..With equal sample size, when v=K, the power of CC association study is much less than that of QT association study because of the information lost by transforming a quantitative continuous trait to a binary trait...
  7. ncbi Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Nat Genet 44:369-75, S1-3. 2012
    ..The method we present is computationally fast and is also applicable to case-control data, which we demonstrate in an example from meta-analysis of type 2 diabetes by the DIAGRAM Consortium...
  8. ncbi Estimating the proportion of variation in susceptibility to schizophrenia captured by common SNPs
    S Hong Lee
    Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    Nat Genet 44:247-50. 2012
    ..6 × 10(-8)). These results are consistent with a polygenic genetic architecture and imply more individual SNP associations will be detected for this disease as sample size increases...
  9. ncbi Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Nat Genet 42:565-9. 2010
    ....
  10. ncbi FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index
    Jian Yang
    University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4102, Australia
    Nature 490:267-72. 2012
    ....
  11. ncbi From Galton to GWAS: quantitative genetics of human height
    Peter M Visscher
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane 4006, Australia
    Genet Res (Camb) 92:371-9. 2010
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  12. ncbi Five years of GWAS discovery
    Peter M Visscher
    University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Am J Hum Genet 90:7-24. 2012
    ..We return to the perceived failure or disappointment about GWASs in the concluding section...
  13. ncbi Genome partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs
    Jian Yang
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Nat Genet 43:519-25. 2011
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