Efficiently controlling for case-control imbalance and sample relatedness in large-scale genetic association studies

…, BN Wolford, J LeFaive, P VandeHaar, SA Gagliano… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for thousands of phenotypes in large biobanks,
most binary traits have substantially fewer cases than controls. Both of the widely used …

[HTML][HTML] Picomolar concentrations of oligomeric alpha-synuclein sensitizes TLR4 to play an initiating role in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis

…, JA Botía, M Iljina, M Rodrigues, SA Gagliano… - Acta …, 2019 - Springer
Despite the wealth of genomic and transcriptomic data in Parkinson’s disease (PD), the initial
molecular events are unknown. Using LD score regression analysis, we show significant …

Genomics implicates adaptive and innate immunity in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

SA Gagliano, JG Pouget, J Hardy… - Annals of clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives We assessed the current genetic evidence for the involvement of various cell
types and tissue types in the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases, especially in relation to …

Long‐and short‐term outcomes in renal allografts with deceased donors: a large recipient and donor genome‐wide association study

…, J Feehally, S Fuggle, SA Gagliano… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Improvements in immunosuppression have modified short‐term survival of deceased‐donor
allografts, but not their rate of long‐term failure. Mismatches between donor and recipient …

A genome-wide association study of suicide severity scores in bipolar disorder

…, SA Gagliano, G Hosang, V De Luca, SA Shaikh… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Suicide claims one million lives worldwide annually, making it a serious public
health concern. The risk for suicidal behaviour can be partly explained by genetic factors, as …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

…, L Francioli, SB Gabriel, D Gage, SA Gagliano Taliun… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

Exploring and visualizing large-scale genetic associations by using PheWeb

SA Gagliano Taliun, P VandeHaar, AP Boughton… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
To the Editor—Advances in genotyping and sequencing technologies, the growing
availability of electronic health records for research use and the emergence of population-scale …

It's all in the brain: a review of available functional genomic annotations

SA Gagliano - Biological psychiatry, 2017 - Elsevier
What makes the molecular study of psychiatric and other neurological conditions particularly
challenging compared with other complex traits is the difficulty of accessing the relevant …

Scalable generalized linear mixed model for region-based association tests in large biobanks and cohorts

…, LG Fritsche, J LeFaive, SA Gagliano Taliun… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
With very large sample sizes, biobanks provide an exciting opportunity to identify genetic
components of complex traits. To analyze rare variants, region-based multiple-variant …

[HTML][HTML] A Bayesian method to incorporate hundreds of functional characteristics with association evidence to improve variant prioritization

SA Gagliano, MR Barnes, ME Weale, J Knight - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The increasing quantity and quality of functional genomic information motivate the assessment
and integration of these data with association data, including data originating from …