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A genome-wide association meta-analysis of self-reported allergy identifies shared and allergy-specific susceptibility loci.Hinds DA, McMahon G, Kiefer AK, Do CB, Eriksson N, Evans DM, St Pourcain B, Ring SM, Mountain JL, Francke U, Davey-Smith G, Timpson NJ, Tung JY.Nat. Genet. 2013 Jun 30.

Serum Iron Levels and the Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Pichler I, Del Greco M. F, Gögele M, Lill CM, Bertram L, Do CB, Eriksson N, Foroud T, Myers RH, PD GWAS Consortium, Nalls M, Keller MF, International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2, Benyamin B, Whitfield JB, Genetics of Iron Status Consortium, Pramstaller PP, Hicks AA, Thompson JR, Minelli C.PLoS Med. 2013 Jun;10(6):e1001462.

Genome-wide analysis points to roles for extracellular matrix remodeling, the visual cycle, and neuronal development in myopia.Kiefer AK, Tung JY, Do CB, Hinds DA, Mountain JL, Francke U, Eriksson N.PLoS Genet. 2013. 9(2): e1003299.

Dealing with the unexpected: Consumer responses to direct-access BRCA mutation testing.Francke U, Dijamco C, Kiefer AK, Eriksson N, Moiseff BR, Tung JY, Mountain JL.PeerJ. 2013 1:e8.

Androgenetic alopecia: identification of four new genetic risk loci and evidence for the contribution of WNT-signaling to its etiology.Heilmann S, Kiefer AK, Fricker N, Drichel D, Hillmer AM, Herold C, Tung JY, Eriksson N, Redler S, Betz RC, Li R, Karason A, Nyholt DR, Song K, Vermeulen SH, Kanoni S, Dedoussis G, Martin NG, Kiemeny LA, Mooser V, Stefansson K, Richards JB, Becker T, Brockschmidt FF, Hinds DA, Nothen MM.J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Jan 28.

Functional genetic variants in the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 modulate emotion processing.Lohoff FW, Hodge R, Narasimhan S, Nall A, Ferraro TN, Mickey BJ, Heitzeg MM, Langenecker SA, Zubieta JK, Bogdan R, Nikolova YS, Drabant E, Hariri AR, Bevilacqua L, Goldman D, Doyle GA.Mol Psychiatry. 2014 Jan;19(1):129-39. Epub 2013 Jan 22.

A genetic variant near olfactory receptor genes influence cilantro preference.Eriksson N, Wu S, Do CB, Kiefer AK, Tung JY, Mountain JL, Hinds DA, Francke U.Flavour. 2012 Dec;1(22).

Comparison of Family History and SNPs for Predicting Risk of Complex Disease.Do CB, Hinds DA, Francke U, Eriksson N.PLoS Genet. 2012 Oct;8(10):e1002973.

Genetic variants associated with breast size also influence breast cancer risk.Eriksson N, Benton GM, Do CB, Kiefer AK, Mountain JL, Hinds DA, Francke U, Tung JY.BMC Med Genet. 2012 Jun 30;13(1):53.

Six novel susceptibility Loci for early-onset androgenetic alopecia and their unexpected association with common diseases.Li R, Brockschmidt FF, Kiefer AK, Stefansson H, Nyholt DR, Song K, Vermeulen SH, Kanoni S, Glass D, Medland SE, Dimitriou M, Waterworth D, Tung JY, Geller F, Heilmann S, Hillmer AM, Bataille V, Eigelshoven S, Hanneken S, Moebus S, Herold C, den Heijer M, Montgomery GW, Deloukas P,Eriksson N, Heath AC, Becker T, Sulem P, Mangino M, Vollenweider P, Spector TD, Dedoussis G, Martin NG, Kiemeney LA, Mooser V, Stefansson K, Hinds DA, Nöthen MM, Richards JB.PLoS Genet. 2012 May;8(5):e1002746. Epub 2012 May 31.

Cryptic distant relatives are common in both isolated and cosmopolitan genetic samples.Henn BM, Hon L, Macpherson JM, Eriksson N, Saxonov S, Pe'er I, Mountain JL. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34267.

Novel associations for hypothyroidism include known autoimmune risk loci.Eriksson N, Tung JY, Kiefer AK, Hinds DA, Francke U, Mountain JL, Do CB.PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34442.

Comprehensive research synopsis and systematic meta-analyses in Parkinson's disease genetics: The PDGene database.Lill CM, Roehr JT, McQueen MB, Kavvoura FK, Bagade S, Schjeide BM, Schjeide LM, Meissner E, Zauft U, Allen NC, Liu T, Schilling M, Anderson KJ, Beecham G, Berg D, Biernacka JM, Brice A, DeStefano AL, Do CB, Eriksson N, Factor SA, Farrer MJ, Foroud T, Gasser T, Hamza T, Hardy JA, Heutink P, Hill-Burns EM, Klein C, Latourelle JC, Maraganore DM, Martin ER, Martinez M, Myers RH, Nalls MA, Pankratz N, Payami H, Satake W, Scott WK, Sharma M, Singleton AB, Stefansson K, Toda T, Tung JY, Vance J, Wood NW, Zabetian CP; 23andMe Genetic Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease Consortium; International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium; Parkinson's Disease GWAS Consortium; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2), Young P, Tanzi RE, Khoury MJ, Zipp F, Lehrach H, Ioannidis JP, Bertram L.PLoS Genet. 2012 Mar;8(3):e1002548.

Navigating a research partnership between academia and industry to assess the impact of personalized genetic testing.Lehmann LS, Kaufman DJ, Sharp RR, Moreno TA, Mountain JL, Roberts JS, Green RC. Genet Med. 2012 Feb 14(2):268-73. Epub 2012 Jan 12.

Efficient replication of over 180 genetic associations with self-reported medical data.Tung JY, Do CB, Hinds DA, Kiefer AK, Macpherson JM, Chowdry AB, Francke U, Naughton BT, Mountain JL, Wojcicki A, Eriksson N.PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23473.

Web-based genome-wide association study identifies two novel loci and a substantial genetic component for Parkinson's disease.Do CB, Tung JY, Dorfman E, Kiefer AK, Drabant EM, Francke U, Mountain JL, Goldman SM, Tanner CM, Langston JW, Wojcicki A, Eriksson N. PLoS Genet. 2011 Jun;7(6):e1002141.

Web-based, participant-driven studies yield novel genetic associations for common traits.Eriksson N, Macpherson JM, Tung JY, Hon LS, Naughton B, Saxonov S, Avey L, Wojcicki A, Pe'er I, Mountain J.PLoS Genet. 2010 Jun 24;6(6):e1000993.

White Papers23andMe's analysis methods have been written about in the technical documents listed below.To read, please visit: 23andMe.com/for/scientists

Estimating Genotype-Specific Incidence for One or Several LociEstimating Genotype-Specific Incidence in the Context of Ethnic VariationGuidelines on Vetting Genetic AssociationsGlobal Similarity's Genetic Similarity MapEstimating Odds Ratios for SNPs in Linkage Disequilibrium with Reported SNPs

To read the full articles please visit: 23andMe.com/for/scientists

Replicability and Robustness of Genome-Wide-Association Studies for Behavioral TraitsRietveld CA, Conley D, Eriksson N, Esko T, Medland SE, Vinkhuyzen AA, Yang J, Boardman JD, Chabris CF, Dawes CT, Domingue BW, Hinds DA, Johannesson M, Kiefer AK, Laibson D, Magnusson PK, Mountain JL, Oskarsson S, Rostapshova O, Teumer A, Tung JY, Visscher PM, Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D, Koellinger PD; the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium; the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium.Psychol Sci. 2014 Oct 6.

Reducing Pervasive False-Positive Identical-by-Descent Segments Detected by Large-Scale Pedigree Analysis.Durand EY, Eriksson N, McLean CY.Mol Biol Evol. 2014 Aug;31(8):2212-22.

Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease.Nalls MA, Pankratz N, Lill CM, Do CB, Hernandez DG, Saad M, DeStefano AL, Kara E, Bras J, Sharma M, Schulte C, Keller MF, Arepalli S, Letson C, Edsall C, Stefansson H, Liu X, Pliner H, Lee JH, Cheng R; International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC); Parkinson's Study Group (PSG) Parkinson's Research: The Organized GENetics Initiative (PROGENI); 23andMe; GenePD; NeuroGenetics Research Consortium (NGRC); Hussman Institute of Human Genomics (HIHG); The Ashkenazi Jewish Dataset Investigator; Cohorts for Health and Aging Research in Genetic Epidemiology (CHARGE); North American Brain Expression Consortium (NABEC); United Kingdom Brain Expression Consortium (UKBEC); Greek Parkinson's Disease Consortium; Alzheimer Genetic Analysis Group, Ikram MA, Ioannidis JP, Hadjigeorgiou GM, Bis JC, Martinez M, Perlmutter JS, Goate A, Marder K, Fiske B, Sutherland M, Xiromerisiou G, Myers RH, Clark LN, Stefansson K, Hardy JA, Heutink P, Chen H, Wood NW, Houlden H, Payami H, Brice A, Scott WK, Gasser T, Bertram L, Eriksson N, Foroud T, Singleton AB.Nat Genet. 2014 Jul 27.

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 11 risk variants associated with the asthma with hay fever phenotype.Ferreira MA, Matheson MC, Tang CS, Granell R, Ang W, Hui J, Kiefer AK, Duffy DL, Baltic S, Danoy P, Bui M, Price L, Sly PD, Eriksson N, Madden PA, Abramson MJ, Holt PG, Heath AC, Hunter M, Musk B, Robertson CF, Le Souëf P, Montgomery GW, Henderson AJ, Tung JY, Dharmage SC, Brown MA, James A, Thompson PJ, Pennell C, Martin NG, Evans DM, Hinds D, Hopper JL, the Australian Asthma Genetics Consortium Collaborators.J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Dec 30.

Gradient Boosting as a SNP Filter: an Evaluation Using Simulated and Hair Morphology Data.Lubke GH, Laurin C, Walters R, Eriksson N, Hysi P, Spector TD, Montgomery GW, Martin NG, Medland SE, Boomsma DI.J Data Mining Genomics Proteomics. 2013 Oct 20;4.

A new regulatory variant in the interleukin-6 receptor gene associates with asthma risk.Revez JA, Bain L, Chapman B, Powell JE, Jansen R, Duffy DL, Tung JY, AAGC Collaborators, Penninx BW, Visscher PM, De Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Hinds DA, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Ferreira MAR.Genes Immun. 2013 Oct;14(7):441-6. Epub 2013 Aug 15.

Genome-Wide Association Analysis Implicates Elastic Microfibrils in the Development of Nonsyndromic Striae Distensae.Tung JY, Kiefer AK, Mullins M, Francke U, Eriksson N.J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Jul 11.

A genome-wide association meta-analysis of self-reported allergy identifies shared and allergy-specific susceptibility loci.Hinds DA, McMahon G, Kiefer AK, Do CB, Eriksson N, Evans DM, St Pourcain B, Ring SM, Mountain JL, Francke U, Davey-Smith G, Timpson NJ, Tung JY.Nat. Genet. 2013 Jun 30.

Serum Iron Levels and the Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Pichler I, Del Greco M. F, Gögele M, Lill CM, Bertram L, Do CB, Eriksson N, Foroud T, Myers RH, PD GWAS Consortium, Nalls M, Keller MF, International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2, Benyamin B, Whitfield JB, Genetics of Iron Status Consortium, Pramstaller PP, Hicks AA, Thompson JR, Minelli C.PLoS Med. 2013 Jun;10(6):e1001462.

Genome-wide analysis points to roles for extracellular matrix remodeling, the visual cycle, and neuronal development in myopia.Kiefer AK, Tung JY, Do CB, Hinds DA, Mountain JL, Francke U, Eriksson N.PLoS Genet. 2013. 9(2): e1003299.

Dealing with the unexpected: Consumer responses to direct-access BRCA mutation testing.Francke U, Dijamco C, Kiefer AK, Eriksson N, Moiseff BR, Tung JY, Mountain JL.PeerJ. 2013 1:e8.

Androgenetic alopecia: identification of four new genetic risk loci and evidence for the contribution of WNT-signaling to its etiology.Heilmann S, Kiefer AK, Fricker N, Drichel D, Hillmer AM, Herold C, Tung JY, Eriksson N, Redler S, Betz RC, Li R, Karason A, Nyholt DR, Song K, Vermeulen SH, Kanoni S, Dedoussis G, Martin NG, Kiemeny LA, Mooser V, Stefansson K, Richards JB, Becker T, Brockschmidt FF, Hinds DA, Nothen MM.J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Jan 28.

Functional genetic variants in the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 modulate emotion processing.Lohoff FW, Hodge R, Narasimhan S, Nall A, Ferraro TN, Mickey BJ, Heitzeg MM, Langenecker SA, Zubieta JK, Bogdan R, Nikolova YS, Drabant E, Hariri AR, Bevilacqua L, Goldman D, Doyle GA.Mol Psychiatry. 2014 Jan;19(1):129-39. Epub 2013 Jan 22.

A genetic variant near olfactory receptor genes influence cilantro preference.Eriksson N, Wu S, Do CB, Kiefer AK, Tung JY, Mountain JL, Hinds DA, Francke U.Flavour. 2012 Dec;1(22).

Comparison of Family History and SNPs for Predicting Risk of Complex Disease.Do CB, Hinds DA, Francke U, Eriksson N.PLoS Genet. 2012 Oct;8(10):e1002973.

Genetic variants associated with breast size also influence breast cancer risk.Eriksson N, Benton GM, Do CB, Kiefer AK, Mountain JL, Hinds DA, Francke U, Tung JY.BMC Med Genet. 2012 Jun 30;13(1):53.

Six novel susceptibility Loci for early-onset androgenetic alopecia and their unexpected association with common diseases.Li R, Brockschmidt FF, Kiefer AK, Stefansson H, Nyholt DR, Song K, Vermeulen SH, Kanoni S, Glass D, Medland SE, Dimitriou M, Waterworth D, Tung JY, Geller F, Heilmann S, Hillmer AM, Bataille V, Eigelshoven S, Hanneken S, Moebus S, Herold C, den Heijer M, Montgomery GW, Deloukas P,Eriksson N, Heath AC, Becker T, Sulem P, Mangino M, Vollenweider P, Spector TD, Dedoussis G, Martin NG, Kiemeney LA, Mooser V, Stefansson K, Hinds DA, Nöthen MM, Richards JB.PLoS Genet. 2012 May;8(5):e1002746. Epub 2012 May 31.

Cryptic distant relatives are common in both isolated and cosmopolitan genetic samples.Henn BM, Hon L, Macpherson JM, Eriksson N, Saxonov S, Pe'er I, Mountain JL. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34267.

Novel associations for hypothyroidism include known autoimmune risk loci.Eriksson N, Tung JY, Kiefer AK, Hinds DA, Francke U, Mountain JL, Do CB.PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34442.

Comprehensive research synopsis and systematic meta-analyses in Parkinson's disease genetics: The PDGene database.Lill CM, Roehr JT, McQueen MB, Kavvoura FK, Bagade S, Schjeide BM, Schjeide LM, Meissner E, Zauft U, Allen NC, Liu T, Schilling M, Anderson KJ, Beecham G, Berg D, Biernacka JM, Brice A, DeStefano AL, Do CB, Eriksson N, Factor SA, Farrer MJ, Foroud T, Gasser T, Hamza T, Hardy JA, Heutink P, Hill-Burns EM, Klein C, Latourelle JC, Maraganore DM, Martin ER, Martinez M, Myers RH, Nalls MA, Pankratz N, Payami H, Satake W, Scott WK, Sharma M, Singleton AB, Stefansson K, Toda T, Tung JY, Vance J, Wood NW, Zabetian CP; 23andMe Genetic Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease Consortium; International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium; Parkinson's Disease GWAS Consortium; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2), Young P, Tanzi RE, Khoury MJ, Zipp F, Lehrach H, Ioannidis JP, Bertram L.PLoS Genet. 2012 Mar;8(3):e1002548.

Navigating a research partnership between academia and industry to assess the impact of personalized genetic testing.Lehmann LS, Kaufman DJ, Sharp RR, Moreno TA, Mountain JL, Roberts JS, Green RC. Genet Med. 2012 Feb 14(2):268-73. Epub 2012 Jan 12.

Efficient replication of over 180 genetic associations with self-reported medical data.Tung JY, Do CB, Hinds DA, Kiefer AK, Macpherson JM, Chowdry AB, Francke U, Naughton BT, Mountain JL, Wojcicki A, Eriksson N.PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23473.

Web-based genome-wide association study identifies two novel loci and a substantial genetic component for Parkinson's disease.Do CB, Tung JY, Dorfman E, Kiefer AK, Drabant EM, Francke U, Mountain JL, Goldman SM, Tanner CM, Langston JW, Wojcicki A, Eriksson N. PLoS Genet. 2011 Jun;7(6):e1002141.

Web-based, participant-driven studies yield novel genetic associations for common traits.Eriksson N, Macpherson JM, Tung JY, Hon LS, Naughton B, Saxonov S, Avey L, Wojcicki A, Pe'er I, Mountain J.PLoS Genet. 2010 Jun 24;6(6):e1000993.

White Papers23andMe's analysis methods have been written about in the technical documents listed below.To read, please visit: 23andMe.com/for/scientists

Estimating Genotype-Specific Incidence for One or Several LociEstimating Genotype-Specific Incidence in the Context of Ethnic VariationGuidelines on Vetting Genetic AssociationsGlobal Similarity's Genetic Similarity MapEstimating Odds Ratios for SNPs in Linkage Disequilibrium with Reported SNPs

To read the full articles please visit: 23andMe.com/for/scientists

Replicability and Robustness of Genome-Wide-Association Studies for Behavioral TraitsRietveld CA, Conley D, Eriksson N, Esko T, Medland SE, Vinkhuyzen AA, Yang J, Boardman JD, Chabris CF, Dawes CT, Domingue BW, Hinds DA, Johannesson M, Kiefer AK, Laibson D, Magnusson PK, Mountain JL, Oskarsson S, Rostapshova O, Teumer A, Tung JY, Visscher PM, Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D, Koellinger PD; the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium; the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium.Psychol Sci. 2014 Oct 6.

Reducing Pervasive False-Positive Identical-by-Descent Segments Detected by Large-Scale Pedigree Analysis.Durand EY, Eriksson N, McLean CY.Mol Biol Evol. 2014 Aug;31(8):2212-22.

Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease.Nalls MA, Pankratz N, Lill CM, Do CB, Hernandez DG, Saad M, DeStefano AL, Kara E, Bras J, Sharma M, Schulte C, Keller MF, Arepalli S, Letson C, Edsall C, Stefansson H, Liu X, Pliner H, Lee JH, Cheng R; International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC); Parkinson's Study Group (PSG) Parkinson's Research: The Organized GENetics Initiative (PROGENI); 23andMe; GenePD; NeuroGenetics Research Consortium (NGRC); Hussman Institute of Human Genomics (HIHG); The Ashkenazi Jewish Dataset Investigator; Cohorts for Health and Aging Research in Genetic Epidemiology (CHARGE); North American Brain Expression Consortium (NABEC); United Kingdom Brain Expression Consortium (UKBEC); Greek Parkinson's Disease Consortium; Alzheimer Genetic Analysis Group, Ikram MA, Ioannidis JP, Hadjigeorgiou GM, Bis JC, Martinez M, Perlmutter JS, Goate A, Marder K, Fiske B, Sutherland M, Xiromerisiou G, Myers RH, Clark LN, Stefansson K, Hardy JA, Heutink P, Chen H, Wood NW, Houlden H, Payami H, Brice A, Scott WK, Gasser T, Bertram L, Eriksson N, Foroud T, Singleton AB.Nat Genet. 2014 Jul 27.

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 11 risk variants associated with the asthma with hay fever phenotype.Ferreira MA, Matheson MC, Tang CS, Granell R, Ang W, Hui J, Kiefer AK, Duffy DL, Baltic S, Danoy P, Bui M, Price L, Sly PD, Eriksson N, Madden PA, Abramson MJ, Holt PG, Heath AC, Hunter M, Musk B, Robertson CF, Le Souëf P, Montgomery GW, Henderson AJ, Tung JY, Dharmage SC, Brown MA, James A, Thompson PJ, Pennell C, Martin NG, Evans DM, Hinds D, Hopper JL, the Australian Asthma Genetics Consortium Collaborators.J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Dec 30.

Gradient Boosting as a SNP Filter: an Evaluation Using Simulated and Hair Morphology Data.Lubke GH, Laurin C, Walters R, Eriksson N, Hysi P, Spector TD, Montgomery GW, Martin NG, Medland SE, Boomsma DI.J Data Mining Genomics Proteomics. 2013 Oct 20;4.

A new regulatory variant in the interleukin-6 receptor gene associates with asthma risk.Revez JA, Bain L, Chapman B, Powell JE, Jansen R, Duffy DL, Tung JY, AAGC Collaborators, Penninx BW, Visscher PM, De Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Hinds DA, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Ferreira MAR.Genes Immun. 2013 Oct;14(7):441-6. Epub 2013 Aug 15.

Genome-Wide Association Analysis Implicates Elastic Microfibrils in the Development of Nonsyndromic Striae Distensae.Tung JY, Kiefer AK, Mullins M, Francke U, Eriksson N.J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Jul 11.

A genome-wide association meta-analysis of self-reported allergy identifies shared and allergy-specific susceptibility loci.Hinds DA, McMahon G, Kiefer AK, Do CB, Eriksson N, Evans DM, St Pourcain B, Ring SM, Mountain JL, Francke U, Davey-Smith G, Timpson NJ, Tung JY.Nat. Genet. 2013 Jun 30.

Serum Iron Levels and the Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Pichler I, Del Greco M. F, Gögele M, Lill CM, Bertram L, Do CB, Eriksson N, Foroud T, Myers RH, PD GWAS Consortium, Nalls M, Keller MF, International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2, Benyamin B, Whitfield JB, Genetics of Iron Status Consortium, Pramstaller PP, Hicks AA, Thompson JR, Minelli C.PLoS Med. 2013 Jun;10(6):e1001462.

Genome-wide analysis points to roles for extracellular matrix remodeling, the visual cycle, and neuronal development in myopia.Kiefer AK, Tung JY, Do CB, Hinds DA, Mountain JL, Francke U, Eriksson N.PLoS Genet. 2013. 9(2): e1003299.

Dealing with the unexpected: Consumer responses to direct-access BRCA mutation testing.Francke U, Dijamco C, Kiefer AK, Eriksson N, Moiseff BR, Tung JY, Mountain JL.PeerJ. 2013 1:e8.

Androgenetic alopecia: identification of four new genetic risk loci and evidence for the contribution of WNT-signaling to its etiology.Heilmann S, Kiefer AK, Fricker N, Drichel D, Hillmer AM, Herold C, Tung JY, Eriksson N, Redler S, Betz RC, Li R, Karason A, Nyholt DR, Song K, Vermeulen SH, Kanoni S, Dedoussis G, Martin NG, Kiemeny LA, Mooser V, Stefansson K, Richards JB, Becker T, Brockschmidt FF, Hinds DA, Nothen MM.J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Jan 28.

Functional genetic variants in the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 modulate emotion processing.Lohoff FW, Hodge R, Narasimhan S, Nall A, Ferraro TN, Mickey BJ, Heitzeg MM, Langenecker SA, Zubieta JK, Bogdan R, Nikolova YS, Drabant E, Hariri AR, Bevilacqua L, Goldman D, Doyle GA.Mol Psychiatry. 2014 Jan;19(1):129-39. Epub 2013 Jan 22.

A genetic variant near olfactory receptor genes influence cilantro preference.Eriksson N, Wu S, Do CB, Kiefer AK, Tung JY, Mountain JL, Hinds DA, Francke U.Flavour. 2012 Dec;1(22).

Comparison of Family History and SNPs for Predicting Risk of Complex Disease.Do CB, Hinds DA, Francke U, Eriksson N.PLoS Genet. 2012 Oct;8(10):e1002973.

Genetic variants associated with breast size also influence breast cancer risk.Eriksson N, Benton GM, Do CB, Kiefer AK, Mountain JL, Hinds DA, Francke U, Tung JY.BMC Med Genet. 2012 Jun 30;13(1):53.

Six novel susceptibility Loci for early-onset androgenetic alopecia and their unexpected association with common diseases.Li R, Brockschmidt FF, Kiefer AK, Stefansson H, Nyholt DR, Song K, Vermeulen SH, Kanoni S, Glass D, Medland SE, Dimitriou M, Waterworth D, Tung JY, Geller F, Heilmann S, Hillmer AM, Bataille V, Eigelshoven S, Hanneken S, Moebus S, Herold C, den Heijer M, Montgomery GW, Deloukas P,Eriksson N, Heath AC, Becker T, Sulem P, Mangino M, Vollenweider P, Spector TD, Dedoussis G, Martin NG, Kiemeney LA, Mooser V, Stefansson K, Hinds DA, Nöthen MM, Richards JB.PLoS Genet. 2012 May;8(5):e1002746. Epub 2012 May 31.

Cryptic distant relatives are common in both isolated and cosmopolitan genetic samples.Henn BM, Hon L, Macpherson JM, Eriksson N, Saxonov S, Pe'er I, Mountain JL. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34267.

Novel associations for hypothyroidism include known autoimmune risk loci.Eriksson N, Tung JY, Kiefer AK, Hinds DA, Francke U, Mountain JL, Do CB.PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34442.

Comprehensive research synopsis and systematic meta-analyses in Parkinson's disease genetics: The PDGene database.Lill CM, Roehr JT, McQueen MB, Kavvoura FK, Bagade S, Schjeide BM, Schjeide LM, Meissner E, Zauft U, Allen NC, Liu T, Schilling M, Anderson KJ, Beecham G, Berg D, Biernacka JM, Brice A, DeStefano AL, Do CB, Eriksson N, Factor SA, Farrer MJ, Foroud T, Gasser T, Hamza T, Hardy JA, Heutink P, Hill-Burns EM, Klein C, Latourelle JC, Maraganore DM, Martin ER, Martinez M, Myers RH, Nalls MA, Pankratz N, Payami H, Satake W, Scott WK, Sharma M, Singleton AB, Stefansson K, Toda T, Tung JY, Vance J, Wood NW, Zabetian CP; 23andMe Genetic Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease Consortium; International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium; Parkinson's Disease GWAS Consortium; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2), Young P, Tanzi RE, Khoury MJ, Zipp F, Lehrach H, Ioannidis JP, Bertram L.PLoS Genet. 2012 Mar;8(3):e1002548.

Navigating a research partnership between academia and industry to assess the impact of personalized genetic testing.Lehmann LS, Kaufman DJ, Sharp RR, Moreno TA, Mountain JL, Roberts JS, Green RC. Genet Med. 2012 Feb 14(2):268-73. Epub 2012 Jan 12.

Efficient replication of over 180 genetic associations with self-reported medical data.Tung JY, Do CB, Hinds DA, Kiefer AK, Macpherson JM, Chowdry AB, Francke U, Naughton BT, Mountain JL, Wojcicki A, Eriksson N.PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23473.

Web-based genome-wide association study identifies two novel loci and a substantial genetic component for Parkinson's disease.Do CB, Tung JY, Dorfman E, Kiefer AK, Drabant EM, Francke U, Mountain JL, Goldman SM, Tanner CM, Langston JW, Wojcicki A, Eriksson N. PLoS Genet. 2011 Jun;7(6):e1002141.

Web-based, participant-driven studies yield novel genetic associations for common traits.Eriksson N, Macpherson JM, Tung JY, Hon LS, Naughton B, Saxonov S, Avey L, Wojcicki A, Pe'er I, Mountain J.PLoS Genet. 2010 Jun 24;6(6):e1000993.

White Papers23andMe's analysis methods have been written about in the technical documents listed below.To read, please visit: 23andMe.com/for/scientists

Estimating Genotype-Specific Incidence for One or Several LociEstimating Genotype-Specific Incidence in the Context of Ethnic VariationGuidelines on Vetting Genetic AssociationsGlobal Similarity's Genetic Similarity MapEstimating Odds Ratios for SNPs in Linkage Disequilibrium with Reported SNPs

To read the full articles please visit: 23andMe.com/for/scientists

Replicability and Robustness of Genome-Wide-Association Studies for Behavioral TraitsRietveld CA, Conley D, Eriksson N, Esko T, Medland SE, Vinkhuyzen AA, Yang J, Boardman JD, Chabris CF, Dawes CT, Domingue BW, Hinds DA, Johannesson M, Kiefer AK, Laibson D, Magnusson PK, Mountain JL, Oskarsson S, Rostapshova O, Teumer A, Tung JY, Visscher PM, Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D, Koellinger PD; the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium; the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium.Psychol Sci. 2014 Oct 6.

Reducing Pervasive False-Positive Identical-by-Descent Segments Detected by Large-Scale Pedigree Analysis.Durand EY, Eriksson N, McLean CY.Mol Biol Evol. 2014 Aug;31(8):2212-22.

Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease.Nalls MA, Pankratz N, Lill CM, Do CB, Hernandez DG, Saad M, DeStefano AL, Kara E, Bras J, Sharma M, Schulte C, Keller MF, Arepalli S, Letson C, Edsall C, Stefansson H, Liu X, Pliner H, Lee JH, Cheng R; International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC); Parkinson's Study Group (PSG) Parkinson's Research: The Organized GENetics Initiative (PROGENI); 23andMe; GenePD; NeuroGenetics Research Consortium (NGRC); Hussman Institute of Human Genomics (HIHG); The Ashkenazi Jewish Dataset Investigator; Cohorts for Health and Aging Research in Genetic Epidemiology (CHARGE); North American Brain Expression Consortium (NABEC); United Kingdom Brain Expression Consortium (UKBEC); Greek Parkinson's Disease Consortium; Alzheimer Genetic Analysis Group, Ikram MA, Ioannidis JP, Hadjigeorgiou GM, Bis JC, Martinez M, Perlmutter JS, Goate A, Marder K, Fiske B, Sutherland M, Xiromerisiou G, Myers RH, Clark LN, Stefansson K, Hardy JA, Heutink P, Chen H, Wood NW, Houlden H, Payami H, Brice A, Scott WK, Gasser T, Bertram L, Eriksson N, Foroud T, Singleton AB.Nat Genet. 2014 Jul 27.

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 11 risk variants associated with the asthma with hay fever phenotype.Ferreira MA, Matheson MC, Tang CS, Granell R, Ang W, Hui J, Kiefer AK, Duffy DL, Baltic S, Danoy P, Bui M, Price L, Sly PD, Eriksson N, Madden PA, Abramson MJ, Holt PG, Heath AC, Hunter M, Musk B, Robertson CF, Le Souëf P, Montgomery GW, Henderson AJ, Tung JY, Dharmage SC, Brown MA, James A, Thompson PJ, Pennell C, Martin NG, Evans DM, Hinds D, Hopper JL, the Australian Asthma Genetics Consortium Collaborators.J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Dec 30.

Gradient Boosting as a SNP Filter: an Evaluation Using Simulated and Hair Morphology Data.Lubke GH, Laurin C, Walters R, Eriksson N, Hysi P, Spector TD, Montgomery GW, Martin NG, Medland SE, Boomsma DI.J Data Mining Genomics Proteomics. 2013 Oct 20;4.

A new regulatory variant in the interleukin-6 receptor gene associates with asthma risk.Revez JA, Bain L, Chapman B, Powell JE, Jansen R, Duffy DL, Tung JY, AAGC Collaborators, Penninx BW, Visscher PM, De Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Hinds DA, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Ferreira MAR.Genes Immun. 2013 Oct;14(7):441-6. Epub 2013 Aug 15.

Genome-Wide Association Analysis Implicates Elastic Microfibrils in the Development of Nonsyndromic Striae Distensae.Tung JY, Kiefer AK, Mullins M, Francke U, Eriksson N.J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Jul 11.