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Harm-Jan Westra

Postdoc at the University Medical Center Groningen
Geverifieerd e-mailadres voor umcg.nl
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Gaps in accessing treatment for anxiety and depression: challenges for the delivery of care

KA Collins, HA Westra, DJA Dozois, DD Burns - Clinical psychology review, 2004 - Elsevier
Epidemiological studies have identified high prevalence rates of anxiety and depression in
North America [eg, J. of Nerv. Ment. Dis. 182 (1994) 290]. However, only a small percentage …

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies six novel loci associated with habitual coffee consumption

MC Cornelis, EM Byrne, T Esko, MA Nalls… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
Coffee, a major dietary source of caffeine, is among the most widely consumed beverages in
the world and has received considerable attention regarding health risks and benefits. We …

[HTML][HTML] From genome to function by studying eQTLs

HJ Westra, L Franke - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-molecular basis …, 2014 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have shown a large number of genetic variants
to be associated with complex diseases. The identification of the causal variant within an …

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory mechanisms
on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we performed cis…

Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

A Kurilshikov, C Medina-Gomez, R Bacigalupe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To study the effect of host genetics on gut microbiome composition, the MiBioGen consortium
curated and analyzed genome-wide genotypes and 16S fecal microbiome data from …

Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

Y Okada, D Wu, G Trynka, T Raj, C Terao, K Ikari… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
A major challenge in human genetics is to devise a systematic strategy to integrate disease-associated
variants with diverse genomic and biological data sets to provide insight into …

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

AR Wood, T Esko, J Yang, S Vedantam, TH Pers… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Using genome-wide data from 253,288 individuals, we identified 697 variants at genome-wide
significance that together explained one-fifth of the heritability for adult height. By testing …

Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47

CA Anderson, G Boucher, CW Lees, A Franke… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies and candidate gene studies in ulcerative colitis have
identified 18 susceptibility loci. We conducted a meta-analysis of six ulcerative colitis genome-…

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

HJ Westra, MJ Peters, T Esko, H Yaghootkar… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Identifying the downstream effects of disease-associated SNPs is challenging. To help
overcome this problem, we performed expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) meta-analysis in …

Association analyses identify 38 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease and highlight shared genetic risk across populations

JZ Liu, S Van Sommeren, H Huang, SC Ng, R Alberts… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD). Here we report the first trans-ancestry association study of IBD, with genome-wide or …