Research focus
Recurring themes across recent publications include Complex Trait, Heritability Human, Years Gwas, Gwas Discovery. Work appears regularly in Nature Genetics, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Nature. See the publication list below for the most-cited works compiled from OpenAlex.
Recent publications
- GCTA: A Tool for Genome-wide Complex Trait AnalysisDOI
- Finding the missing heritability of complex diseasesDOI
- Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorderDOI
- Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human heightDOI
- 10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and TranslationDOI
- Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targetsDOI
- Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individualsDOI
- Five Years of GWAS DiscoveryDOI
- Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studiesDOI
- Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ∼700000 individuals of European ancestryDOI
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External profiles
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2143-8760
- OpenAlex: openalex.org
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