Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

…, SA McCarroll, NW McGregor, P McGuffin, JD McKay… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-wide
association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

…, S McCarroll, P McGuffin, MG McInnis, JD McKay… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent, …

A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

RJ Hung, JD McKay, V Gaborieau, P Boffetta… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide, with over one million
cases annually 1 . To identify genetic factors that modify disease risk, we conducted a genome-…

Interleukin‐6 receptor inhibition with tocilizumab reduces disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis with inadequate response to disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs …

MC Genovese, JD McKay, EL Nasonov… - … : Official Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine the efficacy and safety of the humanized anti–interleukin‐6 receptor
antibody tocilizumab combined with conventional disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs (…

A phase II, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, dose‐ranging study of belimumab in patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus

…, W Stohl, RA Furie, JR Lisse, JD McKay… - Arthritis Care & …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To assess the safety, tolerability, biologic activity, and efficacy of belimumab in
combination with standard of care therapy (SOC) in patients with active systemic lupus …

Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15. 33

JD McKay, RJ Hung, V Gaborieau, P Boffetta… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We carried out a genome-wide association study of lung cancer (3,259 cases and 4,159
controls), followed by replication in 2,899 cases and 5,573 controls. Two uncorrelated disease …

[PDF][PDF] A genome-wide association study of lung cancer identifies a region of chromosome 5p15 associated with risk for adenocarcinoma

…, P Brennan, R Hung, V Gaborieau, JD McKay… - The american journal of …, 2009 - cell.com
Three genetic loci for lung cancer risk have been identified by genome-wide association
studies (GWAS), but inherited susceptibility to specific histologic types of lung cancer is not well …

Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

JD McKay, RJ Hung, Y Han, X Zong… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Although several lung cancer susceptibility loci have been identified, much of the heritability
for lung cancer remains unexplained. Here 14,803 cases and 12,262 controls of European …

Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

Y Wang, JD McKay, T Rafnar, Z Wang, MN Timofeeva… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We conducted imputation to the 1000 Genomes Project of four genome-wide association
studies of lung cancer in populations of European ancestry (11,348 cases and 15,861 controls) …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study reveals two new risk loci for bipolar disorder

…, P Brennan, JD McKay… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a common and highly heritable mental illness and genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) have robustly identified the first common genetic variants involved …