Accelerated ageing is associated with increased COVID-19 severity and differences across ethnic groups may exist by Joshua Reeves, Joshua Reeves, Jaspal S. Kooner, Jaspal S. Kooner, Jaspal S. Kooner, Jaspal S. Kooner, Weihua Zhang, Weihua Zhang

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Comorbidities associated with the severity of COVID-19, and differences across ethnic groups: a UK Biobank cohort study by Rahul Patel, Jaspal S. Kooner, Weihua Zhang

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Associations between polygenic risk score and covid-19 susceptibility and severity across ethnic groups: UK Biobank analysis by Raabia Farooqi, Jaspal S. Kooner, Weihua Zhang

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A replication study of GWAS-derived lipid genes in Asian Indians: the chromosomal region 11q23.3 harbors loci contributing to triglycerides. by Timothy R Braun, Latonya F Been, Akhil Singhal, Jacob Worsham, Sarju Ralhan, Gurpreet S Wander, John C Chambers, Jaspal S Kooner, Christopher E Aston, Dharambir K Sanghera

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Investigation of Genetic Variation Underlying Central Obesity amongst South Asians. by William R Scott, Weihua Zhang, Marie Loh, Sian-Tsung Tan, Benjamin Lehne, Uzma Afzal, Juan Peralta, Richa Saxena, Sarju Ralhan, Gurpreet S Wander, Kiymet Bozaoglu, Dharambir K Sanghera, Paul Elliott, James Scott, John C Chambers, Jaspal S Kooner

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The iHealth-T2D study: a cluster randomised trial for the prevention of type 2 diabetes amongst South Asians with central obesity and prediabetes—a statistical analysis plan by Mirthe Muilwijk, Marie Loh, Sara Mahmood, Saranya Palaniswamy, Samreen Siddiqui, Wnurinham Silva, Gary S. Frost, Heather M. Gage, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, Sajjad Ahmad, Sujeet Jha, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Prasad Katulanda, Khadija I. Khawaja, Jaspal S. Kooner, Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Irene G. M. van Valkengoed, John C. Chambers

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Effects of a lifestyle intervention programme after 1 year of follow-up among South Asians at high risk of type 2 diabetes: a cluster randomised controlled trial by Sajjad Ahmad, Gary S Frost, Jonathan Valabhji, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Mirthe Muilwijk, Prasad Katulanda, Khurram Shahzad, Sara Mahmood, Jaspal S Kooner, John C Chambers, Saranya Palaniswamy, Irene GM van Valkengoed, Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Samreen Siddiqui, Sujeet Jha, Swati Waghdhare, Marie Loh, Heather M Gage, Lathika K Athauda, Ranil Jayawardena, Tayyaba Batool, Saira Burney, Matthew Glover, Vodathi Bamunuarachchi, Manju Panda, Madawa Madawanarachchi, Baldeesh Rai, Iqra Sattar, Wnurinham Silva, Ravindra Prasan Rannan-Eliya, Nilmini Wijemunige, Khadija I Khawaja

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The iHealth-T2D study, prevention of type 2 diabetes amongst South Asians with central obesity and prediabetes: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Khadija I. Khawaja, Sajjad Ahmad, Samreen Siddiqui, Khurram Shahzad, Lathika K. Athauda, Ranil Jayawardena, Sara Mahmood, Mirthe Muilwijk, Tayyaba Batool, Saira Burney, Matthew Glover, Saranya Palaniswamy, Vodathi Bamunuarachchi, Manju Panda, Suren Madawanarachchi, Baldeesh Rai, Iqra Sattar, Wnurinham Silva, Swati Waghdhare, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, Heather M. Gage, Irene G. M. van Valkengoed, Jonathan Valabhji, Gary S. Frost, Marie Loh, Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Jaspal S. Kooner, Prasad Katulanda, Sujeet Jha, John C. Chambers

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Integrative genomic analyses in adipocytes implicate DNA methylation in human obesity and diabetes by Liam McAllan, Damir Baranasic, Sergio Villicaña, Scarlett Brown, Weihua Zhang, Benjamin Lehne, Marco Adamo, Andrew Jenkinson, Mohamed Elkalaawy, Borzoueh Mohammadi, Majid Hashemi, Nadia Fernandes, Nathalie Lambie, Richard Williams, Colette Christiansen, Youwen Yang, Liudmila Zudina, Vasiliki Lagou, Sili Tan, Juan Castillo-Fernandez, James W. D. King, Richie Soong, Paul Elliott, James Scott, Inga Prokopenko, Inês Cebola, Marie Loh, Boris Lenhard, Rachel L. Batterham, Jordana T. Bell, John C. Chambers, Jaspal S. Kooner, William R. Scott

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Genome-wide meta-analysis for serum calcium identifies significantly associated SNPs near the calcium-sensing receptor (CASR) gene. by Karen Kapur, Toby Johnson, Noam D Beckmann, Joban Sehmi, Toshiko Tanaka, Zoltán Kutalik, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Weihua Zhang, Diana Marek, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Yuri Milaneschi, Hilma Holm, Angelo Diiorio, Dawn Waterworth, Yun Li, Andrew B Singleton, Unnur S Bjornsdottir, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Dena G Hernandez, Ranil Desilva, Paul Elliott, Gudmundur I Eyjolfsson, Jack M Guralnik, James Scott, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Stefania Bandinelli, John Chambers, Kari Stefansson, Gérard Waeber, Luigi Ferrucci, Jaspal S Kooner, Vincent Mooser, Peter Vollenweider, Jacques S Beckmann, Murielle Bochud, Sven Bergmann

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APOC3 genetic variation, serum triglycerides, and risk of coronary artery disease in Asian Indians, Europeans, and other ethnic groups by Shiwali Goyal, Yosuke Tanigawa, Weihua Zhang, Jin-Fang Chai, Marcio Almeida, Xueling Sim, Megan Lerner, Juliane Chainakul, Jonathan Garcia Ramiu, Chanel Seraphin, Blair Apple, April Vaughan, James Muniu, Juan Peralta, Donna M. Lehman, Sarju Ralhan, Gurpreet S. Wander, Jai Rup Singh, Narinder K. Mehra, Evgeny Sidorov, Marvin D. Peyton, Piers R. Blackett, Joanne E. Curran, E. Shyong Tai, Rob van Dam, Ching-Yu Cheng, Ravindranath Duggirala, John Blangero, John C. Chambers, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Jaspal S. Kooner, Manuel A. Rivas, Christopher E. Aston, Dharambir K. Sanghera

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The South Asian genome. by John C Chambers, James Abbott, Weihua Zhang, Ernest Turro, William R Scott, Sian-Tsung Tan, Uzma Afzal, Saima Afaq, Marie Loh, Benjamin Lehne, Paul O'Reilly, Kyle J Gaulton, Richard D Pearson, Xinzhong Li, Anita Lavery, Jana Vandrovcova, Mark N Wass, Kathryn Miller, Joban Sehmi, Laticia Oozageer, Ishminder K Kooner, Abtehale Al-Hussaini, Rebecca Mills, Jagvir Grewal, Vasileios Panoulas, Alexandra M Lewin, Korrinne Northwood, Gurpreet S Wander, Frank Geoghegan, Yingrui Li, Jun Wang, Jun Wang, Timothy J Aitman, Mark I McCarthy, James Scott, Sarah Butcher, Paul Elliott, Jaspal S Kooner

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Identification of genetic effects underlying type 2 diabetes in South Asian and European populations by Marie Loh, Weihua Zhang, Hong Kiat Ng, Katharina Schmid, Amel Lamri, Lin Tong, Meraj Ahmad, Jung-Jin Lee, Maggie C. Y. Ng, Lauren E. Petty, Cassandra N. Spracklen, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Md. Tariqul Islam, Farzana Jasmine, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Muhammad Kibriya, Karen L. Mohlke, Guillaume Paré, Gauri Prasad, Mohammad Shahriar, Miao Ling Chee, H. Janaka de Silva, James C. Engert, Hertzel C. Gerstein, K. Radha Mani, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Marijana Vujkovic, Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Tien Yin Wong, Chittaranjan S. Yajnik, Salim Yusuf, Habibul Ahsan, Dwaipayan Bharadwaj, Sonia S. Anand, Jennifer E. Below, Michael Boehnke, Donald W. Bowden, Giriraj R. Chandak, Ching-Yu Cheng, Norihiro Kato, Anubha Mahajan, Xueling Sim, Mark I. McCarthy, Andrew P. Morris, Jaspal S. Kooner, Danish Saleheen, John C. Chambers

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Author Correction: Identification of genetic effects underlying type 2 diabetes in South Asian and European populations by Marie Loh, Weihua Zhang, Hong Kiat Ng, Katharina Schmid, Amel Lamri, Lin Tong, Meraj Ahmad, Jung-Jin Lee, Maggie C. Y. Ng, Lauren E. Petty, Cassandra N. Spracklen, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Md. Tariqul Islam, Farzana Jasmine, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Muhammad Kibriya, Karen L. Mohlke, Guillaume Paré, Gauri Prasad, Mohammad Shahriar, Miao Ling Chee, H. Janaka de Silva, James C. Engert, Hertzel C. Gerstein, K. Radha Mani, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Marijana Vujkovic, Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Tien Yin Wong, Chittaranjan S. Yajnik, Salim Yusuf, Habibul Ahsan, Dwaipayan Bharadwaj, Sonia S. Anand, Jennifer E. Below, Michael Boehnke, Donald W. Bowden, Giriraj R. Chandak, Ching-Yu Cheng, Norihiro Kato, Anubha Mahajan, Xueling Sim, Mark I. McCarthy, Andrew P. Morris, Jaspal S. Kooner, Danish Saleheen, John C. Chambers

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Association of maternal prenatal smoking GFI1-locus and cardio-metabolic phenotypes in 18,212 adultsResearch in context by Priyanka Parmar, Estelle Lowry, Giovanni Cugliari, Matthew Suderman, Rory Wilson, Ville Karhunen, Toby Andrew, Petri Wiklund, Matthias Wielscher, Simonetta Guarrera, Alexander Teumer, Benjamin Lehne, Lili Milani, Niek de Klein, Pashupati P. Mishra, Phillip E. Melton, Pooja R. Mandaviya, Silva Kasela, Jana Nano, Weihua Zhang, Yan Zhang, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Annette Peters, Ben Schöttker, Christian Gieger, Denise Anderson, Dorret I. Boomsma, Hans J. Grabe, Salvatore Panico, Jan H. Veldink, Joyce B.J. van Meurs, Leonard van den Berg, Lawrence J. Beilin, Lude Franke, Marie Loh, Marleen M.J. van Greevenbroek, Matthias Nauck, Mika Kähönen, Mikko A. Hurme, Olli T. Raitakari, Oscar H. Franco, P.Eline Slagboom, Pim van der Harst, Sonja Kunze, Stephan B. Felix, Tao Zhang, Wei Chen, Trevor A. Mori, Amelie Bonnefond, Bastiaan T. Heijmans, Taulant Muka, Jaspal S. Kooner, Krista Fischer, Melanie Waldenberger, Philippe Froguel, Rae-Chi Huang, Terho Lehtimäki, Wolfgang Rathmann, Caroline L. Relton, Giuseppe Matullo, Hermann Brenner, Niek Verweij, Shengxu Li, John C. Chambers, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Sylvain Sebert

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Novel approach identifies SNPs in SLC2A10 and KCNK9 with evidence for parent-of-origin effect on body mass index. by Clive J Hoggart, Giulia Venturini, Massimo Mangino, Felicia Gomez, Giulia Ascari, Jing Hua Zhao, Alexander Teumer, Thomas W Winkler, Natalia Tšernikova, Jian'an Luan, Evelin Mihailov, Georg B Ehret, Weihua Zhang, David Lamparter, Tõnu Esko, Aurelien Macé, Sina Rüeger, Pierre-Yves Bochud, Matteo Barcella, Yves Dauvilliers, Beben Benyamin, David M Evans, Caroline Hayward, Mary F Lopez, Lude Franke, Alessia Russo, Iris M Heid, Erika Salvi, Sailaja Vendantam, Dan E Arking, Eric Boerwinkle, John C Chambers, Giovanni Fiorito, Harald Grallert, Simonetta Guarrera, Georg Homuth, Jennifer E Huffman, David Porteous, Generation Scotland Consortium, LifeLines Cohort study, GIANT Consortium, Darius Moradpour, Alex Iranzo, Johannes Hebebrand, John P Kemp, Gert J Lammers, Vincent Aubert, Markus H Heim, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, Rosa Peraita-Adrados, Joan Santamaria, Francesco Negro, Carsten O Schmidt, Robert A Scott, Tim D Spector, Konstantin Strauch, Henry Völzke, Nicholas J Wareham, Wei Yuan, Jordana T Bell, Aravinda Chakravarti, Jaspal S Kooner, Annette Peters, Giuseppe Matullo, Henri Wallaschofski, John B Whitfield, Fred Paccaud, Peter Vollenweider, Sven Bergmann, Jacques S Beckmann, Mehdi Tafti, Nicholas D Hastie, Daniele Cusi, Murielle Bochud, Timothy M Frayling, Andres Metspalu, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, André Scherag, George Davey Smith, Ingrid B Borecki, Valentin Rousson, Joel N Hirschhorn, Carlo Rivolta, Ruth J F Loos, Zoltán Kutalik

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DNA methylation signature of chronic low-grade inflammation and its role in cardio-respiratory diseases by Matthias Wielscher, Pooja R. Mandaviya, Brigitte Kuehnel, Roby Joehanes, Rima Mustafa, Oliver Robinson, Yan Zhang, Barbara Bodinier, Esther Walton, Pashupati P. Mishra, Pascal Schlosser, Rory Wilson, Pei-Chien Tsai, Saranya Palaniswamy, Riccardo E. Marioni, Giovanni Fiorito, Giovanni Cugliari, Ville Karhunen, Mohsen Ghanbari, Bruce M. Psaty, Marie Loh, Joshua C. Bis, Benjamin Lehne, Nona Sotoodehnia, Ian J. Deary, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Jennifer A. Brody, Alexia Cardona, Elizabeth Selvin, Alicia K. Smith, Andrew H. Miller, Mylin A. Torres, Eirini Marouli, Xin Gào, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Johanna Graf-Schindler, Wolfgang Rathmann, Wolfgang Koenig, Annette Peters, Wolfgang Weninger, Matthias Farlik, Tao Zhang, Wei Chen, Yujing Xia, Alexander Teumer, Matthias Nauck, Hans J. Grabe, Macus Doerr, Terho Lehtimäki, Weihua Guan, Lili Milani, Toshiko Tanaka, Krista Fisher, Lindsay L. Waite, Silva Kasela, Paolo Vineis, Niek Verweij, Pim van der Harst, Licia Iacoviello, Carlotta Sacerdote, Salvatore Panico, Vittorio Krogh, Rosario Tumino, Evangelia Tzala, Giuseppe Matullo, Mikko A. Hurme, Olli T. Raitakari, Elena Colicino, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Mika Kähönen, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Shengxu Li, BIOS consortium, Karen N. Conneely, Jaspal S. Kooner, Anna Köttgen, Bastiaan T. Heijmans, Panos Deloukas, Caroline Relton, Ken K. Ong, Jordana T. Bell, Eric Boerwinkle, Paul Elliott, Hermann Brenner, Marian Beekman, Daniel Levy, Melanie Waldenberger, John C. Chambers, Abbas Dehghan, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin

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Interethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent by Fumihiko Takeuchi, Masato Akiyama, Nana Matoba, Tomohiro Katsuya, Masahiro Nakatochi, Yasuharu Tabara, Akira Narita, Woei-Yuh Saw, Sanghoon Moon, Cassandra N. Spracklen, Jin-Fang Chai, Young-Jin Kim, Liang Zhang, Chaolong Wang, Huaixing Li, Honglan Li, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Rajkumar Dorajoo, Jovia L. Nierenberg, Ya Xing Wang, Jing He, Derrick A. Bennett, Atsushi Takahashi, Yukihide Momozawa, Makoto Hirata, Koichi Matsuda, Hiromi Rakugi, Eitaro Nakashima, Masato Isono, Matsuyuki Shirota, Atsushi Hozawa, Sahoko Ichihara, Tatsuaki Matsubara, Ken Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Kohara, Michiya Igase, Sohee Han, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Wei Huang, Nanette R. Lee, Linda S. Adair, Mi Yeong Hwang, Juyoung Lee, Miao Li Chee, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Wanting Zhao, Jianjun Liu, Dermot F. Reilly, Liang Sun, Shaofeng Huo, Todd L. Edwards, Jirong Long, Li-Ching Chang, Chien-Hsiun Chen, Jian-Min Yuan, Woon-Puay Koh, Yechiel Friedlander, Tanika N. Kelly, Wen Bin Wei, Liang Xu, Hui Cai, Yong-Bing Xiang, Kuang Lin, Robert Clarke, Robin G. Walters, Iona Y. Millwood, Liming Li, John C. Chambers, Jaspal S. Kooner, Paul Elliott, Pim van der Harst, The International Genomics of Blood Pressure (iGEN-BP) Consortium, Zhengming Chen, Makoto Sasaki, Xiao-Ou Shu, Jost B. Jonas, Jiang He, Chew-Kiat Heng, Yuan-Tsong Chen, Wei Zheng, Xu Lin, Yik-Ying Teo, E-Shyong Tai, Ching-Yu Cheng, Tien Yin Wong, Xueling Sim, Karen L. Mohlke, Masayuki Yamamoto, Bong-Jo Kim, Tetsuro Miki, Toru Nabika, Mitsuhiro Yokota, Yoichiro Kamatani, Michiaki Kubo, Norihiro Kato

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Epigenome-wide association study of serum urate reveals insights into urate co-regulation and the SLC2A9 locus by Adrienne Tin, Pascal Schlosser, Pamela R. Matias-Garcia, Chris H. L. Thio, Roby Joehanes, Hongbo Liu, Zhi Yu, Antoine Weihs, Anselm Hoppmann, Franziska Grundner-Culemann, Josine L. Min, Victoria L. Halperin Kuhns, Adebowale A. Adeyemo, Charles Agyemang, Johan Ärnlöv, Nasir A. Aziz, Andrea Baccarelli, Murielle Bochud, Hermann Brenner, Jan Bressler, Monique M. B. Breteler, Cristian Carmeli, Layal Chaker, Josef Coresh, Tanguy Corre, Adolfo Correa, Simon R. Cox, Graciela E. Delgado, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Arif B. Ekici, Karlhans Endlich, James S. Floyd, Eliza Fraszczyk, Xu Gao, Xīn Gào, Allan C. Gelber, Mohsen Ghanbari, Sahar Ghasemi, Christian Gieger, Philip Greenland, Megan L. Grove, Sarah E. Harris, Gibran Hemani, Peter Henneman, Christian Herder, Steve Horvath, Lifang Hou, Mikko A. Hurme, Shih-Jen Hwang, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Silva Kasela, Marcus E. Kleber, Wolfgang Koenig, Jaspal S. Kooner, Florian Kronenberg, Brigitte Kühnel, Christine Ladd-Acosta, Terho Lehtimäki, Lars Lind, Dan Liu, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Stefan Lorkowski, Ake T. Lu, Riccardo E. Marioni, Winfried März, Daniel L. McCartney, Karlijn A. C. Meeks, Lili Milani, Pashupati P. Mishra, Matthias Nauck, Christoph Nowak, Annette Peters, Holger Prokisch, Bruce M. Psaty, Olli T. Raitakari, Scott M. Ratliff, Alex P. Reiner, Ben Schöttker, Joel Schwartz, Sanaz Sedaghat, Jennifer A. Smith, Nona Sotoodehnia, Hannah R. Stocker, Silvia Stringhini, Johan Sundström, Brenton R. Swenson, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Andrea Venema, Uwe Völker, Juliane Winkelmann, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Wei Zhao, Yinan Zheng, The Estonian Biobank Research Team, The Genetics of DNA Methylation Consortium, Marie Loh, Harold Snieder, Melanie Waldenberger, Daniel Levy, Shreeram Akilesh, Owen M. Woodward, Katalin Susztak, Alexander Teumer, Anna Köttgen

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CNV-association meta-analysis in 191,161 European adults reveals new loci associated with anthropometric traits by Aurélien Macé, Marcus A. Tuke, Patrick Deelen, Kati Kristiansson, Hannele Mattsson, Margit Nõukas, Yadav Sapkota, Ursula Schick, Eleonora Porcu, Sina Rüeger, Aaron F. McDaid, David Porteous, Thomas W. Winkler, Erika Salvi, Nick Shrine, Xueping Liu, Wei Q. Ang, Weihua Zhang, Mary F. Feitosa, Cristina Venturini, Peter J. van der Most, Anders Rosengren, Andrew R. Wood, Robin N. Beaumont, Samuel E. Jones, Katherine S. Ruth, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Jessica Tyrrell, Aki S. Havulinna, Harmen Boers, Reedik Mägi, Jennifer Kriebel, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Markus Perola, Markku Nieminen, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Mika Kähönen, Jorma S. Viikari, Frank Geller, Jari Lahti, Aarno Palotie, Päivikki Koponen, Annamari Lundqvist, Harri Rissanen, Erwin P. Bottinger, Saima Afaq, Mary K. Wojczynski, Petra Lenzini, Ilja M. Nolte, Thomas Sparsø, Nicole Schupf, Kaare Christensen, Thomas T. Perls, Anne B. Newman, Thomas Werge, Harold Snieder, Timothy D. Spector, John C. Chambers, Seppo Koskinen, Mads Melbye, Olli T. Raitakari, Terho Lehtimäki, Martin D. Tobin, Louise V. Wain, Juha Sinisalo, Annette Peters, Thomas Meitinger, Nicholas G. Martin, Naomi R. Wray, Grant W. Montgomery, Sarah E. Medland, Morris A. Swertz, Erkki Vartiainen, Katja Borodulin, Satu Männistö, Anna Murray, Murielle Bochud, Sébastien Jacquemont, Fernando Rivadeneira, Thomas F. Hansen, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Massimo Mangino, Michael A. Province, Panos Deloukas, Jaspal S. Kooner, Rachel M. Freathy, Craig Pennell, Bjarke Feenstra, David P. Strachan, Guillaume Lettre, Joel Hirschhorn, Daniele Cusi, Iris M. Heid, Caroline Hayward, Katrin Männik, Jacques S. Beckmann, Ruth J. F. Loos, Dale R. Nyholt, Andres Metspalu, Johan G. Eriksson, Michael N. Weedon, Veikko Salomaa, Lude Franke, Alexandre Reymond, Timothy M. Frayling, Zoltán Kutalik

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