
Lung function genetics
A multi-ancestry meta-GWAS of lung function implicates genes and pathways involved in lung development and regeneration, including smooth-muscle function, epithelial morphology and barrier function.
A multi-ancestry meta-GWAS of lung function implicates genes and pathways involved in lung development and regeneration, including smooth-muscle function, epithelial morphology and barrier function.
Quantifying whether different populations share similar effect sizes of common causal variants is vital to understand the genetic basis of disease and build better prediction models. A new study proposes a method leveraging admixture to estimate the correlation of causal genetic variants and finds they are largely similar across ancestry backgrounds.