Rachel L. Kember

May 7, 2024 | nature.com | Zeal Jinwala |Emily E. Hartwell |Mirko Pavicic |Kyle Sullivan |Ke Xu |Daniel Jacobson | +5 more

Correction to: Nature Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-02839-5, published online 1 March 2024In the version of the article initially published, the pipeline for the cross-ancestry meta-analysis did not accurately code some SNPs such that they were not combined despite being the same polymorphism. To fix this, we correctly annotated the rsIDs for the summary statistics from each ancestry and meta-analyzed them based on the unique rsID for each polymorphism.

Apr 16, 2024 | nature.com | Sylvanus Toikumo |Benjamin Pham |Travis T. Mallard |John J Meredith |Laura Vilar-Ribó |Emma Johnson | +14 more

AbstractTobacco use disorder (TUD) is the most prevalent substance use disorder in the world. Genetic factors influence smoking behaviours and although strides have been made using genome-wide association studies to identify risk variants, most variants identified have been for nicotine consumption, rather than TUD.

Mar 1, 2024 | nature.com | Zeal Jinwala |Emily E. Hartwell |Mirko Pavicic |Kyle Sullivan |Ke Xu |Daniel Jacobson | +5 more

AbstractChronic pain is a common problem, with more than one-fifth of adult Americans reporting pain daily or on most days. It adversely affects the quality of life and imposes substantial personal and economic costs. Efforts to treat chronic pain using opioids had a central role in precipitating the opioid crisis.

Dec 7, 2023 | nature.com | Hang Zhou |Rachel L. Kember |Joseph D. Deak |Travis T. Mallard |Jiayi Xu |Emma Johnson | +18 more

AbstractProblematic alcohol use (PAU), a trait that combines alcohol use disorder and alcohol-related problems assessed with a questionnaire, is a leading cause of death and morbidity worldwide. Here we conducted a large cross-ancestry meta-analysis of PAU in 1,079,947 individuals (European, N = 903,147; African, N = 122,571; Latin American, N = 38,962; East Asian, N = 13,551; and South Asian, N = 1,716 ancestries).

Dec 7, 2023 | nature.com | Hang Zhou |Rachel L. Kember |Joseph D. Deak |Travis T. Mallard |Jiayi Xu |Emma Johnson | +18 more

AbstractProblematic alcohol use (PAU), a trait that combines alcohol use disorder and alcohol-related problems assessed with a questionnaire, is a leading cause of death and morbidity worldwide. Here we conducted a large cross-ancestry meta-analysis of PAU in 1,079,947 individuals (European, N = 903,147; African, N = 122,571; Latin American, N = 38,962; East Asian, N = 13,551; and South Asian, N = 1,716 ancestries).