Allan Kalungi

Jan 24, 2025 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Lerato Majara |Allan Kalungi |Nastassja Koen |Kristin Tsuo

KeywordsHumans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Multifactorial Inheritance, Uganda, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, polygenic scores, Africa, GWAS, health disparities, global health, population geneticsAbstractAfrican populations are vastly underrepresented in genetic studies but have the most genetic variation and face wide-ranging environmental exposures globally.

Sep 16, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Opeyemi S Soremekun |Mauro Tutino |Allan Kalungi |Young-chan Park

The authors have declared no competing interest. UGR/GPC was supported by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under the MRC/DFID Concordat agreement, through core funding to the MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit. The 2023 Award Fellowship support of the Alexander Von Humboldt Stiftung Foundation to OS is acknowledged. SF was supported by the Wellcome Trust grant number 220740/Z/20/Z.

Jul 13, 2024 | nature.com | Allan Kalungi |Cathryn M. Lewis |Andrew McIntosh |Andrew Mcintosh |Karoline B Kuchenbaecker

AbstractGenetics research has potential to alleviate the burden of mental disorders in low- and middle-income-countries through identification of new mechanistic pathways which can lead to efficacious drugs or new drug targets. However, there is currently limited genetics data from Africa. The Uganda Genome Resource provides opportunity for psychiatric genetics research among underrepresented people from Africa.