Okada, Yukinori

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

Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities

Martin, A. R., Kanai, M., Kamatani, Y., Okada, Y., Neale, B. M., & Daly, M. J. (2019) · Nature Genetics

Race, Genetics, and SocietyGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 2,821

Current clinical use of polygenic scores will risk exacerbating health disparities

Martin, A. R., Kanai, M., Kamatani, Y., Okada, Y., Neale, B. M., & Daly, M. J. (2018) · Nature Genetics

Race, Genetics, and SocietyGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 2,813

Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics

ReproGen Consortium, Finucane, H. K., Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, The RACI Consortium, Bulik-Sullivan, B., Gusev, A., Trynka, G., Reshef, Y., Loh, P.-R., Anttila, V., et al. (2015) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Cited by 2,604

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

Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

23andMe Research Team, Liu, M., Psychiatry, H. A.-I., Jiang, Y., Wedow, R., Li, Y., Brazel, D. M., Chen, F., Datta, G., Davila-Velderrain, J., et al. (2019) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologySmoking Behavior and Cessation

Cited by 1,896

Genome-wide association studies

Uffelmann, E., Huang, Q. Q., Munung, N. S., de Vries, J., Okada, Y., Martin, A. R., Martin, H. C., Lappalainen, T., & Posthuma, D. (2021) · Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,849

A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes

Chen, S., Francioli, L. C., Goodrich, J. K., Collins, R. L., Kanai, M., Wang, Q., Alföldi, J., Watts, N. A., Vittal, C., Gauthier, L. D., et al. (2024) · Nature

Genomics and Rare DiseasesGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 1,727

The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

Graham, S. E., Clarke, S. L., Wu, K.-H. H., Kanoni, S., Zajac, G. J. M., Ramdas, S., Surakka, I., Ntalla, I., Vedantam, S., Winkler, T. W., et al. (2021) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health

Cited by 972

A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Yengo, L., Vedantam, S., Marouli, E., Sidorenko, J., Bartell, E., Sakaue, S., Graff, M., Eliasen, A. U., Jiang, Y., Raghavan, S., et al. (2022) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 825

Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases

Kanai, M., Akiyama, M., Takahashi, A., Matoba, N., Momozawa, Y., Ikeda, M., Iwata, N., Ikegawa, S., Hirata, M., Matsuda, K., et al. (2018) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 801

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

Mahajan, A., Spracklen, C. N., Zhang, W., Ng, M. C. Y., Petty, L. E., Kitajima, H., Yu, G. Z., Rüeger, S., Speidel, L., Kim, Y. J., et al. (2022) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 704

The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases

Vuckovic, D., Bao, E. L., Akbari, P., Lareau, C. A., Mousas, A., Jiang, T., Chen, M.-H., Raffield, L. M., Tardaguila, M., Huffman, J. E., et al. (2020) · Cell

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 671

Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations

Chen, M.-H., Raffield, L. M., Mousas, A., Sakaue, S., Huffman, J. E., Moscati, A., Trivedi, B., Jiang, T., Akbari, P., Vuckovic, D., et al. (2020) · Cell

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 661

Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology

Suzuki, K., Hatzikotoulas, K., Southam, L., Taylor, H. J., Yin, X., Lorenz, K. M., Mandla, R., Huerta-Chagoya, A., Melloni, G. E. M., Kanoni, S., et al. (2024) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 606

Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

Ishigaki, K., Akiyama, M., Kanai, M., Takahashi, A., Kawakami, E., Sugishita, H., Sakaue, S., Matoba, N., Low, S.-K., Okada, Y., et al. (2020) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 508

Polarization of the Effects of Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Risk Alleles in Leukocytes

Raj, T., Rothamel, K., Mostafavi, S., Ye, C., Lee, M. N., Replogle, J. M., Feng, T., Lee, M., Asinovski, N., Frohlich, I., et al. (2014) · Science

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Cited by 506

Genome-wide association study identifies 112 new loci for body mass index in the Japanese population

Akiyama, M., Okada, Y., Kanai, M., Takahashi, A., Momozawa, Y., Ikeda, M., Iwata, N., Ikegawa, S., Hirata, M., Matsuda, K., et al. (2017) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 455

Responsible use of polygenic risk scores in the clinic: potential benefits, risks and gaps

Polygenic Risk Score Task Force of the International Common Disease Alliance, Adeyemo, A., Balaconis, M. K., Darnes, D. R., Fatumo, S., Granados Moreno, P., Hodonsky, C. J., Inouye, M., Kanai, M., Kato, K., et al. (2021) · Nature Medicine

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyRace, Genetics, and Society

Cited by 413

Genome-wide analyses identify a role for SLC17A4 and AADAT in thyroid hormone regulation

Teumer, A., Chaker, L., Groeneweg, S., Li, Y., Di Munno, C., Barbieri, C., Schultheiss, U. T., Traglia, M., Ahluwalia, T. S., Akiyama, M., et al. (2018) · Nature Communications

Thyroid Disorders and TreatmentsGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 280

Common variants at CDKAL1 and KLF9 are associated with body mass index in east Asian populations

GIANT consortium, Okada, Y., Kubo, M., Ohmiya, H., Takahashi, A., Kumasaka, N., Hosono, N., Maeda, S., Wen, W., Dorajoo, R., et al. (2012) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 256

Genetic analyses identify widespread sex-differential participation bias

Pirastu, N., Cordioli, M., Nandakumar, P., Mignogna, G., Abdellaoui, A., Hollis, B., Kanai, M., Rajagopal, V. M., Parolo, P. D. B., Baya, N., et al. (2021) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 251

A Role for Noncoding Variation in Schizophrenia

Roussos, P., Mitchell, A. C., Voloudakis, G., Fullard, J. F., Pothula, V. M., Tsang, J., Stahl, E. A., Georgakopoulos, A., Ruderfer, D. M., Charney, A., et al. (2014) · Cell Reports

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologySchizophrenia research and treatment

Cited by 251

LC3 lipidation is essential for TFEB activation during the lysosomal damage response to kidney injury

Nakamura, S., Shigeyama, S., Minami, S., Shima, T., Akayama, S., Matsuda, T., Esposito, A., Napolitano, G., Kuma, A., Namba-Hamano, T., et al. (2020) · Nature Cell Biology

Autophagy in Disease and TherapyCalcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism

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