title: GWASdb v2: an update database for human genetic variants identified by genome-wide association studies.
abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs), now as a routine approach to study single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-trait association, have uncovered over ten thousand significant trait/disease associated SNPs (TASs). Here, we updated GWASdb (GWASdb v2, http://jjwanglab.org/gwasdb) which provides comprehensive data curation and knowledge integration for GWAS TASs. These updates include: (i) Up to August 2015, we collected 2479 unique publications from PubMed and other resources; (ii) We further curated moderate SNP-trait associations (P-value < 1.0 × 10(-3)) from each original publication, and generated a total of 252,530 unique TASs in all GWASdb v2 collected studies; (iii) We manually mapped 1610 GWAS traits to 501 Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms, 435 Disease Ontology (DO) terms and 228 Disease Ontology Lite (DOLite) terms. For each ontology term, we also predicted the putative causal genes; (iv) We curated the detailed sub-populations and related sample size for each study; (v) Importantly, we performed extensive function annotation for each TAS by incorporating gene-based information, ENCODE ChIP-seq assays, eQTL, population haplotype, functional prediction across multiple biological domains, evolutionary signals and disease-related annotation; (vi) Additionally, we compiled a SNP-drug response association dataset for 650 pharmacogenetic studies involving 257 drugs in this update; (vii) Last, we improved the user interface of website.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Genomic Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Mulin Jun
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Centre for Genomic Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Department of Anaesthesiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Zipeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Centre for Genomic Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Panwen
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Maria P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Quantitative Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.affiliation: Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre A
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Kocher
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Meredith
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yeager
authors.affiliation: Centre for Genomic Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Psychiatry, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Pak Chung
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Sham
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chanock
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Zhengyuan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Centre for Genomic Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China junwen@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Junwen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004194:Disease / Q000235:genetics; D005796:Genes; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide