• Association analysis of FTO gene polymorphisms with obesity in Greek adults 

      Goutzelas Y., Kotsa K., Vasilopoulos Y., Tsekmekidou X., Stamatis C., Yovos J.G., Sarafidou T., Mamuris Z. (2017)
      Nowadays, obesity is the greatest scourge worldwide, particularly for the developed countries and is a huge burden for the public health. Over the past decade, GWAS have revealed a number of genes associated with obesity. ...
    • Identification of novel risk loci for restless legs syndrome in genome-wide association studies in individuals of European ancestry: a meta-analysis 

      Schormair B., Zhao C., Bell S., Tilch E., Salminen A.V., Pütz B., Dauvilliers Y., Stefani A., Högl B., Poewe W., Kemlink D., Sonka K., Bachmann C.G., Paulus W., Trenkwalder C., Oertel W.H., Hornyak M., Teder-Laving M., Metspalu A., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Polo O., Fietze I., Ross O.A., Wszolek Z., Butterworth A.S., Soranzo N., Ouwehand W.H., Roberts D.J., Danesh J., Allen R.P., Earley C.J., Ondo W.G., Xiong L., Montplaisir J., Gan-Or Z., Perola M., Vodicka P., Dina C., Franke A., Tittmann L., Stewart A.F.R., Shah S.H., Gieger C., Peters A., Rouleau G.A., Berger K., Oexle K., Di Angelantonio E., Hinds D.A., Müller-Myhsok B., Winkelmann J., Balkau B., Ducimetière P., Eschwège E., Rancière F., Alhenc-Gelas F., Gallois Y., Girault A., Fumeron F., Marre M., Roussel R., Bonnet F., Bonnefond A., Cauchi S., Froguel P., Cogneau J., Born C., Caces E., Cailleau M., Lantieri O., Moreau J.G., Rakotozafy F., Tichet J., Vol S., Agee M., Alipanahi B., Auton A., Bell R.K., Bryc K., Elson S.L., Fontanillas P., Furlotte N.A., Hinds D.A., Hromatka B.S., Huber K.E., Kleinman A., Litterman N.K., McIntyre M.H., Mountain J.L., Northover C.A., Pitts S.J., Sathirapongsasuti J.F., Sazonova O.V., Shelton J.F., Shringarpure S., Tian C., Tung J.Y., Vacic V., Wilson C.H., 23andMe Research Team, DESIR study group, 23andMe Research Team, DESIR study group, DESIR study group, DESIR study group (2017)
      Background Restless legs syndrome is a prevalent chronic neurological disorder with potentially severe mental and physical health consequences. Clearer understanding of the underlying pathophysiology is needed to improve ...
    • Lack of replication of thirteen single-nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in Parkinson's disease: a large-scale international study 

      Elbaz, A.; Nelson, L. M.; Payami, H.; Ioannidis, J. P.; Fiske, B. K.; Annesi, G.; Carmine Belin, A.; Factor, S. A.; Ferrarese, C.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Higgins, D. S.; Kawakami, H.; Krüger, R.; Marder, K. S.; Mayeux, R. P.; Mellick, G. D.; Nutt, J. G.; Ritz, B.; Samii, A.; Tanner, C. M.; Van Broeckhoven, C.; Van Den Eeden, S. K.; Wirdefeldt, K.; Zabetian, C. P.; Dehem, M.; Montimurro, J. S.; Southwick, A.; Myers, R. M.; Trikalinos, T. A. (2006)
      Background: A genome-wide association study identified 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) significantly associated with Parkinson's disease. Small-scale replication studies were largely non-confirmatory, but a ...
    • Large-scale replication and heterogeneity in Parkinson disease genetic loci 

      Sharma, M.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Aasly, J. O.; Annesi, G.; Brice, A.; Van Broeckhoven, C.; Bertram, L.; Bozi, M.; Crosiers, D.; Clarke, C.; Facheris, M.; Farrer, M.; Garraux, G.; Gispert, S.; Auburger, G.; Vilariño-Güell, C.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Hicks, A. A.; Hattori, N.; Jeon, B.; Lesage, S.; Lill, C. M.; Lin, J. J.; Lynch, T.; Lichtner, P.; Lang, A. E.; Mok, V.; Jasinska-Myga, B.; Mellick, G. D.; Morrison, K. E.; Opala, G.; Pramstaller, P. P.; Pichler, I.; Park, S. S.; Quattrone, A.; Rogaeva, E.; Ross, O. A.; Stefanis, L.; Stockton, J. D.; Satake, W.; Silburn, P. A.; Theuns, J.; Tan, E. K.; Toda, T.; Tomiyama, H.; Uitti, R. J.; Wirdefeldt, K.; Wszolek, Z.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Yueh, K. C.; Zhao, Y.; Gasser, T.; Maraganore, D.; Krüger, R. (2012)
      Objective: Eleven genetic loci have reached genome-wide significance in a recent meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in Parkinson disease (PD) based on populations of Caucasian descent. The extent to which ...
    • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies confirms a susceptibility locus for knee osteoarthritis on chromosome 7q22 

      Evangelou, E.; Valdes, A. M.; Kerkhof, H. J. M.; Styrkarsdottir, U.; Zhu, Y.; Meulenbelt, I.; Lories, R. J.; Karassa, F. B.; Tylzanowski, P.; Bos, S. D.; Rayner, N. W.; Southam, L.; Zhai, G.; Elliott, K. S.; Hunt, S. E.; Blackburn, H.; Potter, S. C.; Day-Williams, A. G.; Beazley, C.; Akune, T.; Arden, N. K.; Carr, A.; Chapman, K.; Cupples, L. A.; Dai, J.; Deloukas, P.; Doherty, M.; Doherty, S.; Engstrom, G.; Gonzalez, A.; Halldorsson, B. V.; Hammond, C. L.; Hart, D. J.; Helgadottir, H.; Hofman, A.; Ikegawa, S.; Ingvarsson, T.; Jiang, Q.; Jonsson, H.; Kaprio, J.; Kawaguchi, H.; Kisand, K.; Kloppenburg, M.; Kujala, U. M.; Lohmander, L. S.; Loughlin, J.; Luyten, F. P.; Mabuchi, A.; McCaskie, A.; Nakajima, M.; Nilsson, P. M.; Nishida, N.; Ollier, W. E. R.; Panoutsopoulou, K.; Van De Putte, T.; Ralston, S. H.; Rivadeneira, F.; Saarela, J.; Schulte-Merker, S.; Shi, D.; Slagboom, P. E.; Sudo, A.; Tamm, A.; Thorleifsson, G.; Thorsteinsdottir, U.; Tsezou, A.; Wallis, G. A.; Wilkinson, J. M.; Yoshimura, N.; Zeggini, E.; Zhang, F.; Jonsdottir, I.; Uitterlinden, A. G.; Felson, D. T.; Van Meurs, J. B.; Stefansson, K.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Spector, T. D. (2011)
      Objectives: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent form of arthritis and accounts for substantial morbidity and disability, particularly in older people. It is characterised by changes in joint structure, including ...
    • Non-replication of association for six polymorphisms from meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of Parkinson's disease: Large-scale collaborative study 

      Evangelou, E.; Maraganore, D. M.; Annesi, G.; Brighina, L.; Brice, A.; Elbaz, A.; Ferrarese, C.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Krueger, R.; Lambert, J. C.; Lesage, S.; Markopoulou, K.; Mellick, G. D.; Meeus, B.; Pedersen, N. L.; Quattrone, A.; Van Broeckhoven, C.; Sharma, M.; Silburn, P. A.; Tan, E. K.; Wirdefeldt, K.; Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2010)
      Early genome-wide association (GWA) studies on Parkinson's disease (PD) have not been able to yield conclusive, replicable signals of association, perhaps due to limited sample size. We aimed to investigate whether association ...
    • Replication of PTPRC as genetic biomarker of response to TNF inhibitors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis 

      Ferreiro-Iglesias A., Montes A., Perez-Pampin E., Cañete J.D., Raya E., Magro-Checa C., Vasilopoulos Y., Sarafidou T., Caliz R., Ferrer M.A., Joven B., Carreira P., Balsa A., Pascual-Salcedo D., Blanco F.J., Moreno-Ramos M.J., Fernández-Nebro A., Ordóñez M.C., Alegre-Sancho J.J., Narváez J., Navarro-Sarabia F., Moreira V., Valor L., García-Portales R., Marquez A., Martin J., Gómez-Reino J.J., Gonzalez A. (2016)
      Genetic biomarkers could be useful for orienting treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but none has been convincingly validated yet. Putative biomarkers include 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms that have ...