Initiatives & Research Initiatives & Research

Initiatives & Research

List of Publications

2024

Machine learning reveals heterogeneous associations between environmental factors and cardiometabolic diseases across polygenic risk scores

Tatsuhiko Naito, Kosuke Inoue, Shinichi Namba, et al.

2024

Large-scale cross-trait genetic analysis highlights shared genetic backgrounds of autoimmune diseases

Yuji Yamamoto, Yuya Shirai, Ryuya Edahiro, et al.

2024

Primary Aldosteronism and Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes: Genome‐Wide Association and Mendelian Randomization Study

Kosuke Inoue, Tatsuhiko Naito, Ryosuke Fuji, et al.

2024

Causal relevance of different blood pressure traits on risk of cardiovascular diseases: GWAS and Mendelian randomisation in 100,000 Chinese adults

Alfred Pozarickij, Wei Gan, Kuang Lin, et al.

2024

Quantification of escape from X chromosome inactivation with single-cell omics data reveals heterogeneity across cell types and tissues

Yoshihiko Tomofuji, Ryuya Edahiro, Kyuto Sonehara, et al.

2024

Genetic Risk Stratification of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma in Japanese Individuals

Masato Akiyama, Gen Tamiya, Kohta Fujiwara, et al.

2024

Common and rare genetic variants predisposing females to unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss

Kyuto Sonehara, Yoshitaka Yano, Tatsuhiko Naito, et al.

2024

Genome-wide association study on meningioma risk in Japan: a multicenter prospective study

Shuhei Yamada, Toru Umehara, Kyuto Sonehara, et al.

PMID: 39002029

2024

Polygenic risk score for blood pressure and lifestyle factors with overall and CVD mortality: a prospective cohort study in a Japanese population

Ryosuke Fujii, Asahi Hishida, Masahiro Nakatochi, et al.

2024

Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum

Katherine A. Kentistou, Lena R. Kaisinger, Stasa Stankovic, et al.

2024

Genome-Wide Association Study with Three Control Cohorts of Japanese Patients with Esotropia and Exotropia of Comitant Strabismus and Idiopathic Superior Oblique Muscle Palsy

Toshihiko Matsuo, Ichiro Hamasaki, Yoichiro Kamatani, et al.

2024

KEAP1–NRF2 system regulates age-related spermatogenesis dysfunction

Sohei Kuribayashi, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Hiroaki Kitakaze, et al.

2024

Genetic Risk, Healthy Lifestyle Adherence, and Risk of Developing Diabetes in the Japanese Population

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

2024

Protocol for genome-wide association study of human blood metabolites

Takeshi Iwasaki, Yoichiro Kamatani, Kazuhiro Sonomura, et al.

2024

RNF213 Variants, Vasospastic Angina, and Risk of Fatal Myocardial Infarction

Keiko Hikino, Satoshi Koyama, Kaoru Ito, et al.

2024

A unified framework for estimating country-specific cumulative incidence for 18 diseases stratified by polygenic risk

Bradley Jermy, Kristi Läll, Brooke N. Wolford, et al.

2024

Genetically proxied HTRA1 protease activity and circulating levels independently predict risk of ischemic stroke and coronary artery disease

Rainer Malik, Nathalie Beaufort, Jiang Li, et al.

2024

Body mass index stratification optimizes polygenic prediction of type 2 diabetes in cross-biobank analyses

Takafumi Ojima, Shinichi Namba, Ken Suzuki, et al.

2024

Genetic variants for head size share genes and pathways with cancer

Maria J. Knol, Raymond A. Poot, Tavia E. Evans, et al.

2024

Identification of an novel genetic variant associated with osteoporosis: insights from the Taiwan Biobank Study

Yi-Ching Liaw, Koichi Matsuda and Yung-Po Liaw.

2024

Fine-mapping analysis including over 254,000 East Asian and European descendants identifies 136 putative colorectal cancer susceptibility genes

Zhishan Chen, Xingyi Guo, Ran Tao, et al.

2024

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of kidney cancer identifies 63 susceptibility regions

Mark P. Purdue, Diptavo Dutta, Mitchell J. Machiela, et al.

2024

Decoding triancestral origins, archaic introgression, and natural selection in the Japanese population by whole-genome sequencing

Xiaoxi Liu, Satoshi Koyama, Kohei Tomizuka, et al.

2024

Poor accuracy and sustainability of the first-step FIB4 EASL pathway for stratifying steatotic liver disease risk in the general population

Antonio De Vincentis, Federica Tavaglione, Shinichi Namba, et al.

2024

Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology

Ken Suzuki, Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas, Lorraine Southam, et al.

2024

Novel ancestry-specific primary open-angle glaucoma loci and shared biology with vascular mechanisms and cell proliferation

Valeria Lo Faro, Arjun Bhattacharya, Wei Zhou, et al.

2024

GWAS for systemic sclerosis identifies six novel susceptibility loci including one in the Fcγ receptor region

Yuki Ishikawa, Nao Tanaka, Yoshihide Asano, et al.

2024

Multi-trait analysis characterizes the genetics of thyroid function and identifies causal associations with clinical implications

Rosalie B. T. M. Sterenborg, Inga Steinbrenner, Yong Li, et al.

2024

Genetic architecture of alcohol consumption identified by a genotype-stratified GWAS and impact on esophageal cancer risk in Japanese people

Yuriko N. Koyanagi, Masahiro Nakatochi, Shinichi Namba, et al.

2024

X-chromosome and kidney function: evidence from a multi-trait genetic analysis of 908,697 individuals reveals sex-specific and sex-differential findings in genes regulated by androgen response elements

Markus Scholz, Katrin Horn, Janne Pott, et al.

2024

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference

Xiangrui Meng, Georgina Navoly, Olga Giannakopoulou, et al.

2023

Genetic risk score of cerebral infarction in atrial fibrillation genome-wide association study

Yusuke Ebana, Lian Liu, Kensuke Ihara, et al.

2023

East Asian-specific and cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analyses provide mechanistic insights into peptic ulcer disease

Yunye He, Masaru Koido, Yoichi Sutoh, et al.

2023

Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants

Anqi Wang, Jiayi Shen, Alex A. Rodriguez, et al.

2023

A large-scale microRNA transcriptome-wide association study identifies two susceptibility microRNAs, miR-1307-5p and miR-192-3p, for colorectal cancer risk

Zhishan Chen, Weiqiang Lin, Qiuyin Cai, et al.

2023

Extracting immunological and clinical heterogeneity across autoimmune rheumatic diseases by cohort-wide immunophenotyping

Hiroaki Tanaka, Yukinori Okada, Shingo Nakayamada, et al.

2023

Identification of telomere maintenance gene variations related to lung adenocarcinoma risk by genome-wide association and whole genome sequencing analyses

Kouya Shiraishi, Atsushi Takahashi, Yukihide Momozawa, et al.

2023

Polygenic prediction across populations is influenced by ancestry, genetic architecture, and methodology

Ying Wang, Masahiro Kanai, Taotao Tan, et al.

2023

Natural Selection Signatures in the Hondo and Ryukyu Japanese Subpopulations

Xiaoxi Liu, Masatoshi Matsunami, Momoko Horikoshi, et al.

2023

Combining Asian and European genome-wide association studies of colorectal cancer improves risk prediction across racial and ethnic populations

Minta Thomas, Yu-Ru Su, Elisabeth A. Rosenthal, et al.

2023

Boosting the power of genome-wide association studies within and across ancestries by using polygenic scores

Adrian I. Campos, Shinichi Namba, Shu-Chin Lin, et al.

2023

Multi-ancestry genome-wide analysis identifies shared genetic effects and common genetic variants for self-reported sleep duration

B. H. Scammell, C. Tchio, Y. Song, et al.

2023

GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture

International League Against Epilepsy Consortium on Complex Epilepsies.

2023

Androgen receptor binding sites enabling genetic prediction of mortality due to prostate cancer in cancer-free subjects

Shuji Ito, Xiaoxi Liu, Yuki Ishikawa, et al.

2023

ENIGMA CHEK2gether Project: A Comprehensive Study Identifies Functionally Impaired CHEK2 Germline Missense Variants Associated with Increased Breast Cancer Risk

Lenka Stolarova, Petra Kleiblova, Petra Zemankova, et al.

2023

A whole-genome reference panel of 14,393 individuals for East Asian populations accelerates discovery of rare functional variants

Jaeyong Choi, Sungjae Kim, Juhyun Kim, et al.

2023

Contribution of an Asian-prevalent HLA haplotype to the risk of HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma

Atsushi Kawamura, Koichi Matsuda, Yoshinori Murakami, et al.

2023

Genome-wide Association Studies Categorized by Class of Antihypertensive Drugs Reveal Complex Pathogenesis of Hypertension with Drug Resistance

Keiko Yamazaki, Chikashi Terao, Atsushi Takahashi, et al.

2023

Hyperfructosemia in sleep disordered breathing: metabolome analysis of Nagahama study

Yoshinari Nakatsuka, Kimihiko Murase, Kazuhiro Sonomura, et al.

2023

GWAS of Folate Metabolism with Gene-Environment Interaction Analysis Revealed the Possible Role of Lifestyles in the Control of Blood Folate Metabolites in Japanese – the J-MICC Study

Mineko Tsukamoto, Asahi Hishida, Takashi Tamura, et al.