Masato Akiyama

ORCID: 0000-0002-1879-5476 · 2 papers in corpus

2020

Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases.

Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-020-0640-3

The overwhelming majority of participants in current genetic studies are of European ancestry. To elucidate disease biology in the East Asian population, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with 212,453 Japanese individuals …

article 2019

GWAS of five gynecologic diseases and cross-trait analysis in Japanese

European journal of human genetics : EJHG ·doi:10.1038/s41431-019-0495-1

We performed genome-wide association studies of five gynecologic diseases using data of 46,837 subjects (5236 uterine fibroid, 645 endometriosis, 647 ovarian cancer (OC), 909 uterine endometrial cancer (UEC), and 538 uterine cervical cancer…