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ArticleGenetics2020

Detecting Shared Genetic Architecture Among Multiple Phenotypes by Hierarchical Clustering of Gene-Level Association Statistics.

Melissa R McGuirl, Samuel Pattillo Smith, Björn Sandstede, Sohini Ramachandran

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Article in Genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa R McGuirl *Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.ORCID 0000-0002-0385-6889
Samuel Pattillo Smith *Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.ORCID 0000-0002-6269-0276
Björn Sandstede *Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.ORCID 0000-0002-5432-1235
Sohini Ramachandran *Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 sramachandran@brown.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9588-7964
Brown University · US

Funding

Novel statistical methods to localize genomic elements underlying adaptive evolutionR01GM118652 · NIGMS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI RAMACHANDRAN, SOHINI · 2016 to 2020
$1.6M
Predoctoral Training Program in Biological Data Science at Brown UniversityT32GM128596 · NIGMS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI RAMACHANDRAN, SOHINI, SANDSTEDE, BJORN · 2018 to 2022
$1.5M
Medical Research Council MC_PC_17228Medical Research Council MC_QA137853NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118652NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM128596
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emerging large-scale biobanks pairing genotype data with phenotype data present new opportunities to prioritize shared genetic associations across multiple phenotypes for molecular validation. Past research, by our group and others, has shown gene-level tests of association produce biologically interpretable characterization of the genetic architecture of a given phenotype. Here, we present a new method, Ward clustering to identify Internal Node branch length outliers using Gene Scores (WINGS), for identifying shared genetic architecture among

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Genome-Wide Association StudyGenotypePhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideCase-Control StudiesCluster AnalysisComputer SimulationHumansWhite PeoplegenomicsGWAShierarchical clustering

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PMID32245788
PMCPMC7268989
OpenAlexW3014823189

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