Public Health Sciences

Public Health Sciences

• Gene-based testing of interactions in association studies of quantitative traits.
  Li Ma et al. PLoS Genetics, Mar 2013
• Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis
  Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Lancet 2013 Feb 28
  
  • Study: Depression, autism and schizophrenia share genetic links, NPR, Mar 1
  • 5 disorders share genetic risk factors, study finds, The New York Times, Feb 28
• Projecting the performance of risk prediction based on polygenic analyses of genome-wide association studies.
  Chatterjee N, Wheeler B, Sampson J, et al. Nat Genet. 2013 Mar 3.
  
  • The potential of large studies for building genetic risk prediction models, NCI News, Mar 4
• Short telomere length, cancer survival, and cancer risk in 47102 individuals
  Maren Weischer et al
  
  • The long and short of telomeres and cancer association studies
    Sharon A. Savage,Shahinaz M. Gadalla and Stephen J. Chanock JNCI Mar 5
• Whole genome sequencing to determine the microevolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during an outbreak
  Midori Kato-Maeda et al  PloS One Mar  5, 2013