Initiatives & Research Initiatives & Research

Initiatives & Research

List of Publications

2025

Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of aortic stenosis enhance therapeutic target discovery and disease prediction

Aeron M. Small, Ta-Yu Yang, Shinsuke Itoh, et al.

2025

Revisiting the impact of BRCA1 pathogenic variants on the aggressiveness of prostate cancer

Hajime Sasagawa, Shintaro Narita, Koichi Matsuda, et al.

2025

Germline variants of the POLH and RAD51 genes are candidate variants associated with risk of hormone receptor-negative young-onset breast cancer

Shu Yazaki, Rui Kitadai, Yukihide Momozawa, et al.

2025

Proteogenomics in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma reveals new biological fingerprint of cerebral small vessel disease

Ilana Caro, Daniel Western, Shinichi Namba, et al.

2025

The Association between Genetically Predicted C-Reactive Protein Levels and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in an East Asian Population: Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization

Chang Kyun Choi, Jung-Ho Yang, Min-Ho Shin, et al.

2025

Pan-cancer prevalence, risk, and clinical and demographic characteristics of Lynch Syndrome-associated variants in BioBank Japan

Keijiro Mizukami, Yoshiaki Usui, Yusuke Iwasaki, et al.

2025

Whole-genome sequencing of 3135 individuals representing the genetic diversity of the Japanese population

Koichiro Higasa, Yoichiro Kamatani, Takahisa Kawaguchi, et al.

2025

Genome-wide analysis of heart failure yields insights into disease heterogeneity and enables prognostic prediction in the Japanese population

Nobuyuki Enzan, Kazuo Miyazawa, Satoshi Koyama, et al.

2025

Stratifying lung adenocarcinoma risk with multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores in East Asian never-smokers

Batel Blechter, Xiaoyu Wang, Juncheng Dai, et al.

2025

Sex differences in subtypes, risk profiles, and mortality for cancer among 19,702 Japanese patients with ischemic stroke: A cohort from BioBank Japan

Takashi Shimoyama, Yoichiro Kamatani, Koichi Matsuda, et al.

2025

Effect of healthy lifestyle on renal dysfunction risk: interactions with genetic risk

Masato Takase, Naoki Nakaya, Mana Kogure, et al.

2025

Case-Control Study for 23 Cancer Types With Functional Analysis of CHEK2: Risk Estimation and Clinical Recommendations in East Asia

Yuri Takehara, Yoshiaki Usui, Lenka Stolařová, et al.

2025

Identification and replication of sex-dimorphic protein quantitative trait loci across multiple ancestries and their associations with diseases

Youngjune Bhak, Vasilis Raptis, Yunye He, et al.

2025

Whole-genome sequencing reveals rare and structural variants contributing to psoriasis and identifies CERCAM as a risk gene

Kyuto Sonehara, Rei Watanabe, Yutaka Matsumura, et al.

2025

Association of circulating metabolites and polygenic risk score with incident type 2 diabetes: a prospective community-based cohort study

Masato Takase, Naoki Nakaya, Mana Kogure, et al.

2025

Local radiotherapy for cancer patients is associated with mosaic loss of chromosome Y, a hallmark of male aging

Takuro Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Hachiya, Yan Lu, et al.

2025

Deciphering state-dependent immune features from multi-layer omics data at single-cell resolution

Ryuya Edahiro, Go Sato, Tatsuhiko Naito, et al.

2025

Polygenic prediction of body mass index and obesity through the life course and across ancestries

Roelof A. J. Smit, Kaitlin H. Wade, Qin Hui, et al.

2025

Integrating multi-ancestry genomic and proteomic data to identify blood risk biomarkers and target proteins for breast cancer genetic risk loci

Guochong Jia, Jie Ping, Ran Tao, et al.

2025

A POLR1D-regulating single-nucleotide polymorphism as a predictive marker candidate for platinum-based chemotherapy in gastrointestinal cancers

Takahiro Mori, Kazuko Ueno, Masao Nagasaki, et al.

2025

Clinical Significance of TP53-Mutant Clonal Hematopoiesis Across Diseases

Yoshiaki Usui, Mikiko Endo, Yusuke Iwasaki, et al.

2025

Genomic profiles of pathogenic and moderate-penetrance germline variants associated with risk of early-onset lung adenocarcinoma

Hourin Cho, Kouya Shiraishi, Kuniko Sunami, et al.

2025

Impact of germline variants on breast and ovarian cancer risk in Japanese women: an original cohort study and meta-analysis

Shu Yazaki, Megumi Hori, Hisaki Aiba, et al.

2025

The contribution of gametic phase disequilibrium to the heritability of complex traits

Yuanxiang Zhang, Saori Sakaue, Sam Morris, et al.

2025

Genetic risk, lifestyle adherence, and risk of developing hyperuricaemia in a Japanese population

Masato Takase, Naoki Nakaya, Tomohiro Nakamura, et al.

2025

Dissecting cross-population polygenic heterogeneity across respiratory and cardiometabolic diseases

Yuji Yamamoto, Yuya Shirai, Kyuto Sonehara, et al.

2025

A genome-wide meta-analysis reveals shared and population-specific variants for allergic sensitization

Emiko Noguchi, Wataru Morii, Haruna Kitazawa, et al.

2025

Recurrent Stroke Prediction by Applying a Stroke Polygenic Risk Score in the Japanese Population

Naoki Kojima, Masaru Koido, Yunye He, et al.

2025

Meta-analysis of genome-wide associations and polygenic risk prediction for atrial fibrillation in more than 180,000 cases

Carolina Roselli, Ida Surakka, Morten S. Olesen, et al.

2025

Germline variants and mosaic chromosomal alterations affect COVID-19 vaccine immunogenicity

Kyuto Sonehara, Yoshifumi Uwamino, Ryunosuke Saiki, et al.

2025

Increased somatic mosaicism in autosomal and X chromosomes for suicide death

Ikuo Otsuka, Shunsuke Uchiyama, Toshiyuki Shirai, et al.

2025

A variant in HMMR/HMMR-AS1 is associated with serum alanine aminotransferase levels in the Ryukyu population

Noriko Ohyama, Masatoshi Matsunami, Minako Imamura, et al.

2025

Mosaic loss of chromosome Y characterises late-onset rheumatoid arthritis and contrasting associations of polygenic risk score based on age at onset

Shunsuke Uchiyama, Yuki Ishikawa, Katsunori Ikari, et al.

2025

Contribution of germline and somatic mutations to risk of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

Tomohiro Yata, Go Sato, Kotaro Ogawa, et al.

2025

Genomics yields biological and phenotypic insights into bipolar disorder

Kevin S. O'Connell, Maria Koromina, Tracey van der Veen, et al.

2025

Trans-ancestry genome-wide study of depression identifies 697 associations implicating cell types and pharmacotherapies

Mark J Adams, Fabian Streit, Xiangrui Meng, et al.

2025

Refining breast cancer genetic risk and biology through multi-ancestry fine-mapping analyses of 192 risk regions

Guochong Jia, Zhishan Chen, Jie Ping, et al.

2024

Genetic analysis of myeloid neoplasms with der(1;7)(q10;p10)

Rurika Okuda, Yotaro Ochi, Ryunosuke Saiki, et al.

PMID: 39715854

2024

Population-specific reference panel improves imputation quality for genome-wide association studies conducted on the Japanese population

Jack Flanagan, Xiaoxi Liu, David Ortega-Reyes, et al.

2024

Cancer and disease profiles for PTEN pathogenic variants in Japanese population

Yuki Kanazashi, Yoshiaki Usui, Yusuke Iwasaki, et al.

2024

Polygenic risk score and lung adenocarcinoma risk among never-smokers by EGFR mutation status-a brief report

Batel Blechter, Chao Agnes Hsiung, Xiaoyu Wang, et al.

2024

Genetic legacy of ancient hunter-gatherer Jomon in Japanese populations

Kenichi Yamamoto, Shinichi Namba, Kyuto Sonehara, et al.

2024

Genomic variants associated with age at diagnosis of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes

Pierre Bougnères, Sophie Le Fur, Yoichiro Kamatani, et al.

2024

A genome-wide association analysis reveals new pathogenic pathways in gout

Tanya J. Major, Riku Takei, Hirotaka Matsuo, et al.

2024

Inconsistent embryo selection across polygenic score methods

Shinichi Namba, Masato Akiyama, Haruka Hamanoue, et al.

2024

Artificial intelligence in medical genomics

Yoichiro Kamatani and Tadashi Kaname.

2024

Population-specific putative causal variants shape quantitative traits

Satoshi Koyama, Xiaoxi Liu, Yoshinao Koike, et al.

2024

Genotype imputation methods for whole and complex genomic regions utilizing deep learning technology

Tatsuhiko Naito and Yukinori Okada.

2024

Statistically and functionally fine-mapped blood eQTLs and pQTLs from 1,405 humans reveal distinct regulation patterns and disease relevance

Qingbo S. Wang, Takanori Hasegawa, Ho Namkoong, et al.

2024

Genome-wide association studies for pelvic organ prolapse in the Japanese population

Masatoshi Matsunami, Minako Imamura, Asuka Ashikari, et al.