Willer, Cristen J.

METAL: fast and efficient meta-analysis of genomewide association scans

Willer, C. J., Li, Y., & Abecasis, G. R. (2010) · Bioinformatics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 5,205

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

Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

Teslovich, T. M., Musunuru, K., Smith, A. V., Edmondson, A. C., Stylianou, I. M., Koseki, M., Pirruccello, J. P., Ripatti, S., Chasman, D. I., Willer, C. J., et al. (2010) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health

Cited by 3,487

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

A genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Finns detects multiple susceptibility variants

Scott, L. J., Mohlke, K. L., Bonnycastle, L. L., Willer, C. J., Li, Y., Duren, W. L., Erdos, M. R., Stringham, H. M., Chines, P. S., Jackson, A. U., et al. (2007) · Science

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,753

LocusZoom: regional visualization of genome-wide association scan results

Pruim, R. J., Welch, R. P., Sanna, S., Teslovich, T. M., Chines, P. S., Gliedt, T. P., Boehnke, M., Abecasis, G. R., & Willer, C. J. (2010) · Bioinformatics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,707

Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

Taliun, D., Harris, D. N., Kessler, M. D., Carlson, J., Szpiech, Z. A., Torres, R., Taliun, S. A. G., Corvelo, A., Gogarten, S. M., Kang, H. M., et al. (2021) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenomics and Rare Diseases

Cited by 2,213

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

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

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Zeggini, E., Scott, L. J., Saxena, R., Voight, B. F., Marchini, J. L., Hu, T., de Bakker, P. I., Abecasis, G. R., Almgren, P., et al. (2008) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,864

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

MaCH: using sequence and genotype data to estimate haplotypes and unobserved genotypes

Li, Y., Willer, C. J., Ding, J., Scheet, P., & Abecasis, G. R. (2010) · Genetic Epidemiology

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyForensic and Genetic Research

Cited by 1,843

Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

The MAGIC investigators, Voight, B. F., The GIANT Consortium, Scott, L. J., Steinthorsdottir, V., Morris, A. P., Dina, C., Welch, R. P., Zeggini, E., Huth, C., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,761

Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

The CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium, Deloukas, P., DIAGRAM Consortium, CARDIOGENICS Consortium, MuTHER Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Kanoni, S., Willenborg, C., Farrall, M., Assimes, T. L., et al. (2013) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,614

Newly identified loci that influence lipid concentrations and risk of coronary artery disease

Willer, C. J., Sanna, S., Jackson, A. U., Scuteri, A., Bonnycastle, L. L., Clarke, R., Heath, S. C., Timpson, N. J., Najjar, S. S., Stringham, H. M., et al. (2008) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health

Cited by 1,585

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

Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia

Kathiresan, S., Willer, C. J., Peloso, G. M., Demissie, S., Musunuru, K., Schadt, E. E., Kaplan, L., Bennett, D., Li, Y., Tanaka, T., et al. (2009) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health

Cited by 1,364

Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity

The Prostate, L., Loos, R. J. F., KORA, Study, N. H., Initiative, D. G., Study, T. S., The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, FUSION, Lindgren, C. M., Li, S., et al. (2008) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyRegulation of Appetite and Obesity

Cited by 1,325

Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Newton-Cheh, C., Johnson, T., Gateva, V., Tobin, M. D., Bochud, M., Coin, L., Najjar, S. S., Zhao, J. H., Heath, S. C., et al. (2009) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyBlood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Cited by 1,215

A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease

Wightman, D. P., Jansen, I. E., Savage, J. E., Shadrin, A. A., Bahrami, S., Holland, D., Rongve, A., Børte, S., Winsvold, B. S., Drange, O. K., et al. (2021) · Nature Genetics

Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Cited by 1,011

Genotype Imputation

Li, Y., Willer, C., Sanna, S., & Abecasis, G. (2009) · Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 990

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

Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

MAGIC, Heid, I. M., Jackson, A. U., Randall, J. C., Winkler, T. W., Qi, L., Steinthorsdottir, V., Thorleifsson, G., Zillikens, M. C., Speliotes, E. K., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 931

Biobank-driven genomic discovery yields new insight into atrial fibrillation biology

Nielsen, J. B., Thorolfsdottir, R. B., Fritsche, L. G., Zhou, W., Skov, M. W., Graham, S. E., Herron, T. J., McCarthy, S., Schmidt, E. M., Sveinbjornsson, G., et al. (2018) · Nature Genetics

Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmiasAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes

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