Visscher, Peter M.

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

Manolio, T. A., Collins, F. S., Cox, N. J., Goldstein, D. B., Hindorff, L. A., Hunter, D. J., McCarthy, M. I., Ramos, E. M., Cardon, L. R., Chakravarti, A., et al. (2009) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 8,336

GCTA: a tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis

Yang, J., Lee, S. H., Goddard, M. E., & Visscher, P. M. (2011) · The American Journal of Human Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Cited by 8,279

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

Study, T. L. C., Locke, A. E., The ADIPOGen Consortium, The AGEN-BMI Working Group, The CARDIOGRAMplusC4D Consortium, The CKDGen Consortium, The, G. L. G. C., The, I. C. B. P., The MAGIC Investigators, The MuTHER Consortium, et al. (2015) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 4,534

Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

Yang, J., Benyamin, B., McEvoy, B. P., Gordon, S., Henders, A. K., Nyholt, D. R., Madden, P. A., Heath, A. C., Martin, N. G., Montgomery, G. W., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Cited by 4,446

10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation

Visscher, P. M., Wray, N. R., Zhang, Q., Sklar, P., McCarthy, M. I., Brown, M. A., & Yang, J. (2017) · The American Journal of Human Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 3,719

Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets

Zhu, Z., Zhang, F., Hu, H., Bakshi, A., Robinson, M. R., Powell, J. E., Montgomery, G. W., Goddard, M. E., Wray, N. R., Visscher, P. M., et al. (2016) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 3,352

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

eQTLGen, Wray, N. R., 23andMe, the Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Ripke, S., Mattheisen, M., Trzaskowski, M., Byrne, E. M., Abdellaoui, A., Adams, M. J., et al. (2018) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyTreatment of Major Depression

Cited by 3,005

Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

Trubetskoy, V., Pardiñas, A. F., Qi, T., Panagiotaropoulou, G., Awasthi, S., Bigdeli, T. B., Bryois, J., Chen, C.-Y., Dennison, C. A., Hall, L. S., et al. (2022) · Nature

Schizophrenia research and treatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 2,964

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

Cited by 2,912

Unraveling the polygenic architecture of complex traits using blood eQTL metaanalysis

Võsa, U., Claringbould, A., Westra, H.-J., Bonder, M. J., Deelen, P., Zeng, B., Kirsten, H., Saha, A., Kreuzhuber, R., Kasela, S., et al. (2018) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,607

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

Võsa, U., Claringbould, A., Westra, H.-J., Bonder, M. J., Deelen, P., Zeng, B., Kirsten, H., Saha, A., Kreuzhuber, R., Yazar, S., et al. (2021) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,607

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

23andMe Research Team, Lee, J. J., COGENT (Cognitive Genomics Consortium), Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Wedow, R., Okbay, A., Kong, E., Maghzian, O., Zacher, M., Nguyen-Viet, T. A., et al. (2018) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyCognitive Abilities and Testing

Cited by 2,470

Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

Polderman, T. J. C., Benyamin, B., de Leeuw, C. A., Sullivan, P. F., van Bochoven, A., Visscher, P. M., & Posthuma, D. (2015) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyCognitive Abilities and Testing

Cited by 2,467

Five Years of GWAS Discovery

Visscher, P. M., Brown, M. A., McCarthy, M. I., & Yang, J. (2012) · The American Journal of Human Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,425

Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

the RACI consortium, Okada, Y., the GARNET consortium, Wu, D., Trynka, G., Raj, T., Terao, C., Ikari, K., Kochi, Y., Ohmura, K., et al. (2014) · Nature

Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and TherapiesGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 2,310

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

Heritability in the genomics era — concepts and misconceptions

Visscher, P. M., Hill, W. G., & Wray, N. R. (2008) · Nature Reviews Genetics

Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestockGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 1,921

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Consortium, Wood, A. R., The MIGen Consortium, The PAGE Consortium, Study, T. L. C., Esko, T., Yang, J., Vedantam, S., Pers, T. H., Gustafsson, S., et al. (2014) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 1,853

Calculating statistical power in Mendelian randomization studies.

Brion, M.-J. A., Shakhbazov, K., & Visscher, P. M. (2013) · International Journal of Epidemiology

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyAdvanced Causal Inference Techniques

Cited by 1,751

Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits

Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium, Yang, J., DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium, Ferreira, T., Morris, A. P., Medland, S. E., Madden, P. A. F., Heath, A. C., Martin, N. G., Montgomery, G. W., et al. (2012) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,712

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

Westra, H.-J., Peters, M. J., Esko, T., Yaghootkar, H., Schurmann, C., Kettunen, J., Christiansen, M. W., Fairfax, B. P., Schramm, K., Powell, J. E., et al. (2013) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,658

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

The ADIPOGen Consortium, Shungin, D., The CARDIOGRAMplusC4D Consortium, The CKDGen Consortium, The GEFOS Consortium, The GENIE Consortium, The, G. L. G. C., The, I. C. B. P., The International Endogene Consortium, Study, T. L. C., et al. (2015) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases

Cited by 1,580

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

DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life

Marioni, R. E., Shah, S., McRae, A. F., Chen, B. H., Colicino, E., Harris, S. E., Gibson, J., Henders, A. K., Redmond, P., Cox, S. R., et al. (2015) · Genome Biology

Epigenetics and DNA MethylationGenetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Cited by 1,261