Thomas Nutman and colleagues report the draft genome of the filarial pathogen Loa loa, the African eyeworm. They also report coverage of two other filarial pathogens, Wuchereria bancrofti and Onchocerca volvulus. Unlike most filariae, L. loa lacks an ... ...
Erik Ingelsson and colleagues report a large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis for associations to the extremes of anthropometric traits, including body mass index, height, waist-to-hip ratio and clinical obesity. They identify four loci newly associat ... ...
Sadaf Farooqi, Inês Barroso and colleagues report genome-wide SNP and CNV association analyses for severe obesity in children, selected at the extreme of the distribution for body mass index. They identify four loci newly associated with severe obesi ... ...
Florent Soubrier and colleagues report a genome-wide association study of pulmonary arterial hypertension. They identify a susceptibility locus near CBLN2 associated with a twofold elevated risk of developing this life-threatening disease. ... ...
Richard Houlston, Kari Hemminki and colleagues report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of multiple myeloma and identify a variant in the CCDN1 gene that influences risk for developing a specific tumor karyotype with the t(11;14)(q13 ... ...
Carlos López-Otín and colleagues report recurrent mutations in POT1 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This is the first member of the telomeric shelterin complex reported to be mutated in human cancer. ... ...
Richard Lifton, Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi and colleagues report that recessive mutations in DGKE cause atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome with an early age of onset progressing to chronic kidney disease. The authors propose that loss of DGKE results ... ...