Sanders, Alan R.

Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

MAGIC, Speliotes, E. K., on behalf of Procardis Consortium, Willer, C. J., Berndt, S. I., Monda, K. L., Thorleifsson, G., Jackson, A. U., Allen, H. L., Lindgren, C. M., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

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Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

Lango Allen, H., Estrada, K., Lettre, G., Berndt, S. I., Weedon, M. N., Rivadeneira, F., Willer, C. J., Jackson, A. U., Vedantam, S., Raychaudhuri, S., et al. (2010) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 1,945

Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

The Brainstorm Consortium, Anttila, V., Bulik-Sullivan, B., Finucane, H. K., Walters, R. K., Bras, J., Duncan, L., Escott-Price, V., Falcone, G. J., Gormley, P., et al. (2018) · Science

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,924

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

Okbay, A., Beauchamp, J. P., Fontana, M. A., Lee, J. J., Pers, T. H., Rietveld, C. A., Turley, P., Chen, G.-B., Emilsson, V., Meddens, S. F. W., et al. (2016) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyCognitive Abilities and Testing

Cited by 1,297

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

Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia Collaboration, O'Donovan, M. C., Craddock, N., Norton, N., Williams, H., Peirce, T., Moskvina, V., Nikolov, I., Hamshere, M., Carroll, L., et al. (2008) · Nature Genetics

Schizophrenia research and treatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 1,070

Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

Okbay, A., Wu, Y., Wang, N., Jayashankar, H., Bennett, M., Nehzati, S. M., Sidorenko, J., Kweon, H., Goldman, G., Gjorgjieva, T., et al. (2022) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

Berndt, S. I., Gustafsson, S., Mägi, R., Ganna, A., Wheeler, E., Feitosa, M. F., Justice, A. E., Monda, K. L., Croteau-Chonka, D. C., Day, F. R., et al. (2013) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

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Partitioning Heritability of Regulatory and Cell-Type-Specific Variants across 11 Common Diseases

Gusev, A., Lee, S. H., Trynka, G., Finucane, H., Vilhjálmsson, B. J., Xu, H., Zang, C., Ripke, S., Bulik-Sullivan, B., Stahl, E., et al. (2014) · The American Journal of Human Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Cited by 544

Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior

Ganna, A., Verweij, K. J. H., Nivard, M. G., Maier, R., Wedow, R., Busch, A. S., Abdellaoui, A., Guo, S., Sathirapongsasuti, J. F., 23andMe Research Team, et al. (2019) · Science

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologySexual Differentiation and Disorders

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Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

Robinson, M. R., Kleinman, A., Graff, M., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Couper, D., Miller, M. B., Peyrot, W. J., Abdellaoui, A., Zietsch, B. P., Nolte, I. M., et al. (2017) · Nature Human Behaviour

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

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GWAS of Suicide Attempt in Psychiatric Disorders and Association With Major Depression Polygenic Risk Scores

Mullins, N., Bigdeli, T. B., Børglum, A. D., Coleman, J. R. I., Demontis, D., Mehta, D., Power, R. A., Ripke, S., Stahl, E. A., Starnawska, A., et al. (2019) · American Journal of Psychiatry

Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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Genetics of schizophrenia: new findings and challenges

Gejman, P. V., Sanders, A. R., & Kendler, K. S. (2011) · Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Schizophrenia research and treatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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GWAS meta-analysis of suicide attempt: identification of 12 genome-wide significant loci and implication of genetic risks for specific health factors

Docherty, A. R., Mullins, N., Ashley-Koch, A. E., Qin, X., Coleman, J. R. I., Shabalin, A., Kang, J., Murnyak, B., Wendt, F., Adams, M., et al. (2023) · American Journal of Psychiatry

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologySuicide and Self-Harm Studies

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Allele-specific open chromatin in human iPSC neurons elucidates functional disease variants

Zhang, S., Zhang, H., Zhou, Y., Qiao, M., Zhao, S., Kozlova, A., Shi, J., Sanders, A. R., Wang, G., Luo, K., et al. (2020) · Science

Genomics and Chromatin DynamicsGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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Increased Genetic Vulnerability to Smoking at CHRNA5 in Early-Onset Smokers

Hartz, S. M., Short, S. E., Saccone, N. L., Culverhouse, R., Chen, L., Schwantes-An, T.-H., Coon, H., Han, Y., Stephens, S. H., Sun, J., et al. (2012) · Archives of General Psychiatry

Smoking Behavior and CessationGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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Brain Lipids and Lipid Droplet Dysregulation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Zhao, X., Zhang, S., Sanders, A. R., & Duan, J. (2023) · Complex Psychiatry

Lipid metabolism and biosynthesisAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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PICALM Alzheimer’s risk allele causes aberrant lipid droplets in microglia

Kozlova, A., Zhang, S., Sudwarts, A., Zhang, H., Smirnou, S., Byeon, S. K., Thapa, C., Sun, X., Stephenson, K., Zhao, X., et al. (2025) · Nature

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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Multiple genes in a single GWAS risk locus synergistically mediate aberrant synaptic development and function in human neurons

Zhang, S., Zhang, H., Forrest, M. P., Zhou, Y., Sun, X., Bagchi, V. A., Kozlova, A., Santos, M. D., Piguel, N. H., Dionisio, L. E., et al. (2023) · Cell Genomics

Schizophrenia research and treatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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Genome studies must account for history—Response

Ganna, A., Verweij, K. J. H., Nivard, M. G., Maier, R., Wedow, R., Busch, A. S., Abdellaoui, A., Guo, S., Sathirapongsasuti, J. F., 23andMe Research Team, et al. (2019) · Science

Ethics in Clinical ResearchEthics and bioethics in healthcare

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