Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1. Terao C^*, Suzuki A, Momozawa Y, Akiyama M, Ishigaki K, Yamamoto K, Matsuda K, Murakami Y, McCarroll SA, Kubo M, Loh PR, Kamatani Y.:
  "Chromosomal alterations among age-related hematopoietic clones in Japan."
  Nature. 2020 Jun 24 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2426-2
• 2. Liu X, Takata S, Ashikawa K, Aoi T, Kosugi S, Terao C, Parrish NF, Matsuda K, Nakagawa H, Kamatani Y, Kubo M, Momozawa Y.:
  "Prevalence and Spectrum of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Japanese Patients With Early-Onset Colorectal, Breast, and Prostate Cancer."
  JCO Precision Oncology. 2020 :4, 183-191
• 3. Nakabo S, Tsuji Y, Inagaki M, Tsuji H, Nakajima T, Murakami K, Terao C, Hashimoto M, Furu M, Tanaka M, Ito H, Fujii T, Mimori T, Fujii Y.:
  "Severe joint deformity and Patient Global Assessment of Disease are associated with discrepancies between sonographic and clinical remission: A cross-sectional study of rheumatoid arthritis patients."
  Mod Rheumatol. 2020 Apr 3:1-23.
• 4. Sakai K, Tanikawa C, Hirasawa A, Chiyoda T, Yamagami W, Kataoka F, Susumu N, Terao C, Kamatani Y, Takahashi A, Momozawa Y, Hirata M, Kubo M, Fuse N, Takai-Igarashi T, Shimizu A, Fukushima A, Kadota A, Arisawa K, Ikezaki H, Wakai K, Yamaji T, Sawada N, Iwasaki M, Tsugane S, Aoki D, Matsuda K.:
  "Identification of a novel uterine leiomyoma GWAS locus in a Japanese population."
  Sci Rep. 2020 Jan 27;10(1):1197. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58066-8.
• 5. Thompson DJ, Genovese G, Halvardson J, Ulirsch JC, Wright DJ, Terao C, Davidsson OB, Day FR, Sulem P, Jiang Y, Danielsson M, Davies H, Dennis J, Dunlop MG, Easton DF, Fisher VA, Zink F, Houlston RS, Ingelsson M, Kar S, Kerrison ND, Kinnersley B, Kristjansson RP, Law PJ, Li R, Loveday C, Mattisson J, McCarroll SA, Murakami Y, Murray A, Olszewski P, Rychlicka-Buniowska E, Scott RA, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tomlinson I, Moghadam BT, Turnbull C, Wareham NJ, Gudbjartsson DF; International Lung Cancer Consortium (INTEGRAL-ILCCO); Breast Cancer Association Consortium; Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2; Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium; Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium; Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations in the Genome (PRACTICAL) Consortium; Kidney Cancer GWAS Meta-Analysis Project; eQTLGen Consortium; Biobank-based Integrative Omics Study (BIOS) Consortium; 23andMe Research Team, Kamatani Y, Hoffmann ER, Jackson SP, Stefansson K, Auton A, Ong KK, Machiela MJ, Loh PR, Dumanski JP, Chanock SJ, Forsberg LA, Perry JRB.:
  "Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood."
  Nature. 2019 Nov;575(7784):652-657.
• 6. Howles SA, Wiberg A, Goldsworthy M, Bayliss AL, Gluck AK, Ng M, Grout E, Tanikawa C, Kamatani Y, Terao C, Takahashi A, Kubo M, Matsuda K, Thakker RV, Turney BW, Furniss D.:
  "Genetic variants of calcium and vitamin D metabolism in kidney stone disease."
  Nat Commun. 2019 Nov 15;10(1):5175.
• 7. Terao C^*, Momozawa Y, Ishigaki K, Kawakami E, Akiyama M, Loh PR, Genovese G, Sugishita H, Ohta T, Hirata M, Perry JRB, Matsuda K, Murakami Y, Kubo M, Kamatani Y.:
  "GWAS of mosaic loss of chromosome Y highlights genetic effects on blood cell differentiation."
  Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 17;10(1):4719. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12705-5.
• 8. Terao C, Brynedal B, Chen Z, Jiang X, Westerlind H, Hansson M, Jakobsson PJ, Lundberg K, Skriner K, Serre G, Rönnelid J, Mathsson-Alm L, Brink M, Dahlqvist SR, Padyukov L, Gregersen PK, Barton A, Alfredsson L, Klareskog L, Raychaudhuri S.:
  "Distinct HLA Associations with Rheumatoid Arthritis Subsets Defined by Serological Subphenotype."
  Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Sep 5;105(3):616-624.
• 9. Ishikawa Y, Ikari K, Hashimoto M, Ohmura K, Tanaka M, Ito H, Taniguchi A, Yamanaka H, Mimori T, Terao C^*.:
  "Shared epitope defines distinct associations of cigarette smoking with levels of anticitrullinated protein antibody and rheumatoid factor."
  Ann Rheum Dis. 2019 Nov;78(11):1480-1487.
• 10. Kosugi S, Momozawa Y, Liu X, Terao C, Kubo M, Kamatani Y.:
  "Comprehensive evaluation of structural variation detection algorithms for whole genome sequencing."
  Genome Biol. 2019 Jun 3;20(1):117. doi: 10.1186/s13059-019-1720-5.

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