https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:45256 1.4 million individuals, we show that FROH is significantly associated (pā€‰<ā€‰0.0005) with apparently deleterious changes in 32 out of 100 traits analysed. These changes are associated with runs of homozygosity (ROH), but not with common variant homozygosity, suggesting that genetic variants associated with inbreeding depression are predominantly rare. The effect on fertility is striking: FROH equivalent to the offspring of first cousins is associated with a 55% decrease [95% CI 44ā€“66%] in the odds of having children. Finally, the effects of FROH are confirmed within full-sibling pairs, where the variation in FROH is independent of all environmental confounding.]]> Wed 26 Oct 2022 20:06:39 AEDT ]]> Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:47731 g| ~ 0.25 to 0.50) with a range of risky behaviors. Bioinformatics analyses imply that genes near SNPs associated with general risk tolerance are highly expressed in brain tissues and point to a role for glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission. We found no evidence of enrichment for genes previously hypothesized to relate to risk tolerance.]]> Wed 25 Jan 2023 14:39:42 AEDT ]]> Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:44073 Wed 22 Mar 2023 15:46:47 AEDT ]]> Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:49007 Wed 03 May 2023 12:17:36 AEST ]]> Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39718 270,000 independent mQTLs, of which 8.5% comprise long-range (trans) associations. Identified mQTL associations explain 15-17% of the additive genetic variance of DNAm. We show that the genetic architecture of DNAm levels is highly polygenic. Using shared genetic control between distal DNAm sites, we constructed networks, identifying 405 discrete genomic communities enriched for genomic annotations and complex traits. Shared genetic variants are associated with both DNAm levels and complex diseases, but only in a minority of cases do these associations reflect causal relationships from DNAm to trait or vice versa, indicating a more complex genotype-phenotype map than previously anticipated.]]> Tue 21 Mar 2023 17:20:57 AEDT ]]>