Medical and Population Genetics Program

Mono- and biallelic variant effects on disease at biobank scale. Nature. 2023. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05420-7DOIGoogle ScholarPubMed

FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population. Nature. 2023. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05473-8Google ScholarDOIPubMed

Tanskanen T, van den Berg L, Välimäki N, et al. Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis in Northern European populations replicate multiple colorectal cancer risk loci. Int J Cancer. 2018;142(3):540-546. doi:10.1002/ijc.31076Google ScholarDOIPubMed

Fuchsberger C, Flannick J, Teslovich TM, et al. The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes. Nature. 2016;536(7614):41-7. doi:10.1038/nature18642DOIGoogle ScholarPubMed

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Loh PR, Tucker G, Bulik-Sullivan BK, et al. Efficient Bayesian mixed-model analysis increases association power in large cohorts. Nat Genet. 2015;47(3):284-90. doi:10.1038/ng.3190Google ScholarDOIPubMed

Do R, Balick D, Li H, Adzhubei I, Sunyaev S, Reich D. No evidence that selection has been less effective at removing deleterious mutations in Europeans than in Africans. Nat Genet. 2015;47(2):126-31. doi:10.1038/ng.3186Google ScholarDOIPubMed