Identifies 12 novel loci linked to actinic keratosis, suggesting implications for understanding skin cancer risk.
Code accompanying "A genome-wide meta-analysis of actinic keratosis identifies 12 novel loci and overlap with keratinocyte carcinoma and pigmentation", Christina M.W. Eecen, Christopher D. George, Mengzhen Liu, Bridget M. Riley-Gillis, Chen Jiang, Yuhree Kim, Mathias Seviiri, Maryam M. Asgari, Tamar Nijsten, Hélène Choquet, Luba M. Pardo, Communications Biology (2026). Includes per-cohort QC (EasyQC), fixed-effects meta-analysis (METAL), conditional/joint analysis (GCTA-COJO, mtCOJO), genetic-correlation analysis (LDSC), transcriptome-wide association (FUSION) and fine-mapping (FOCUS, CAVIARBF), and the R scripts used to generate the manuscript figures. See README.txt.
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