Loic Yengo

Employment

• The University of Queensland

Education

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Projects & Funding

• Better statistical methods to discover host genetic factors in symptom response to SARS-CoV-2 infection National Health and Medical Research Council
  2020 - Present

Publications (128)

• Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries
  Nature Human Behaviour 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02599-x
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• Multiancestry conditional and joint analysis applied to GWAS summary statistics
  Nature Genetics 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02799-1
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• Using summary data to detect and quantify ascertainment in biobanks
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.02.742371
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• Author Correction: Genome-wide fine-mapping improves identification of causal variants
  Nature Genetics 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02627-6
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• Genome-wide fine-mapping improves identification of causal variants
  Nature Genetics 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02549-3
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• Distinct genetic profiles influence body mass index between infancy and adolescence
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69310-6
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• Multi-ancestry conditional and joint analysis (Manc-COJO) applied to GWAS summary statistics
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.30.702783
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• Converging evidence of positive selection at height-associated loci in Europe
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.27.702172
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• Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.17.25336022
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• Comprehensive molecular impact mapping of common and rare variants at GWAS loci
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.05.658079
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• DINGO: increasing the power of locus discovery in maternal and fetal genome-wide association studies of perinatal traits
  Nature Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53495-9
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• The importance of family-based sampling for biobanks
  Nature 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07721-5
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• Distinct genetic profiles influence body mass index between infancy and adolescence
  2024 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4943023/v1
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• Leveraging functional genomic annotations and genome coverage to improve polygenic prediction of complex traits within and between ancestries
  Nature Genetics 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01704-y
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• The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits
  Nature Human Behaviour 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01828-5
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• Mate choice through a genomic lens
  Nature Reviews Genetics 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-023-00605-w
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• Genetics of skeletal proportions in two different populations
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.22.541772
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• The effect of the scale of grant scoring on ranking accuracy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
  2023 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.125400.2
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• Estimation and implications of the genetic architecture of fasting and non-fasting blood glucose
  Nature Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36013-1
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• A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height
  Loïc Yengo, Sailaja Vedantam, Eirini Marouli +97 more
  Nature 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05275-y
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