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Power of inclusion: Enhancing polygenic prediction with admixed individuals featured image

Power of inclusion: Enhancing polygenic prediction with admixed individuals

We developed a polygenic score training approach that allows direct inclusion of admixed individuals without the need for local ancestry inference and showed ancestry-diverse …

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Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D.
WhichTF is dominant in your open chromatin data? featured image

WhichTF is dominant in your open chromatin data?

We develop an ontology-guided approach to ranking tissue-/cell-type-specific transcription factors (TFs) from chromatin accessibility data.

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Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D.
Significant Sparse Polygenic Risk Scores across 813 traits in UK Biobank featured image

Significant Sparse Polygenic Risk Scores across 813 traits in UK Biobank

We performed a systematic assessment of the predictive performance of PRS models across >1,500 traits in UK Biobank and report 813 PRS models with significant predictive …

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Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D.
Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank featured image

Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank

We analyzed the genetic basis of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in UK Biobank. We revealed that genetic effects on biomarkers inform the genetic basis of disease.

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Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D.
Global Biobank Engine: enabling genotype-phenotype browsing for biobank summary statistics featured image

Global Biobank Engine: enabling genotype-phenotype browsing for biobank summary statistics

We present Global Biobank Engine as a platform to visualize genome- and phenome-wide associations and perform statistical inference using those association data.