List of works - Peter M. Visscher

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

scientific article

Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

scientific article

GCTA: a tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2011)

Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

scientific article (publication date: July 2010)

Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

scientific article (publication date: November 2010)

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

scientific article

Five years of GWAS discovery

scientific article

Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

scientific article

Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

scientific article

Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia

scientific article

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

scientific article

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

scientific article

Heritability in the genomics era — concepts and misconceptions

scientific article

Estimating Missing Heritability for Disease from Genome-wide Association Studies

scientific article published on March 3, 2011

A versatile gene-based test for genome-wide association studies

scientific article

Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

scientific article

Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits

scientific article published on 18 March 2012

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

scientific article

10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation

scientific article

Genome partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs

scientific article

Data and theory point to mainly additive genetic variance for complex traits

scientific article

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets

scientific article

Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

scientific article

GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life

scientific article

DNA methylation profiles in monozygotic and dizygotic twins.

scientific article

Estimating the proportion of variation in susceptibility to schizophrenia captured by common SNPs.

scientific article

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

scientific journal article

Assumption-free estimation of heritability from genome-wide identity-by-descent sharing between full siblings

scientific article

Pitfalls of predicting complex traits from SNPs

scientific article

Estimation of pleiotropy between complex diseases using single-nucleotide polymorphism-derived genomic relationships and restricted maximum likelihood

scientific article

Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

scientific article

Prediction of individual genetic risk to disease from genome-wide association studies

scientific article

Advantages and pitfalls in the application of mixed-model association methods

scientific article published on February 2014

Increased accuracy of artificial selection by using the realized relationship matrix.

scientific article published in February 2009

Genetic variance estimation with imputed variants finds negligible missing heritability for human height and body mass index

scientific article

Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

scientific article

Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

scientific article

New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond

scientific article

FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

scientific article published on 16 September 2012

Genomic inflation factors under polygenic inheritance

scientific article

Sizing up human height variation

scientific article published in May 2008

DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

scientific article

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

article

Harnessing the information contained within genome-wide association studies to improve individual prediction of complex disease risk

scientific article

The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

scientific article

List of works by Peter M. Visscher

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

GCTA: a tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis

Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

Five years of GWAS discovery

Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Heritability in the genomics era — concepts and misconceptions

Estimating Missing Heritability for Disease from Genome-wide Association Studies

A versatile gene-based test for genome-wide association studies

Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation

Genome partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs

Data and theory point to mainly additive genetic variance for complex traits

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets

Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment

DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life

DNA methylation profiles in monozygotic and dizygotic twins.

Estimating the proportion of variation in susceptibility to schizophrenia captured by common SNPs.

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

Assumption-free estimation of heritability from genome-wide identity-by-descent sharing between full siblings

Pitfalls of predicting complex traits from SNPs

Estimation of pleiotropy between complex diseases using single-nucleotide polymorphism-derived genomic relationships and restricted maximum likelihood

Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

Prediction of individual genetic risk to disease from genome-wide association studies

Advantages and pitfalls in the application of mixed-model association methods

Increased accuracy of artificial selection by using the realized relationship matrix.

Genetic variance estimation with imputed variants finds negligible missing heritability for human height and body mass index

Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation

The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond

FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

Genomic inflation factors under polygenic inheritance

Sizing up human height variation

DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

Harnessing the information contained within genome-wide association studies to improve individual prediction of complex disease risk

The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936