Makoto Hirata

Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases

Masahiro Kanai, Masato Akiyama, Atsushi Takahashi et al. · Nature Genetics · 2018 · 905 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Genetics +16

Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Masato Akiyama, Masahiro Kanai et al. · Nature Genetics · 2020 · 588 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +12

Germline pathogenic variants of 11 breast cancer genes in 7,051 Japanese patients and 11,241 controls

Yukihide Momozawa, Yusuke Iwasaki, Michael T. Parsons et al. · Nature Communications · 2018 · 274 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Oncology +17

<i>Helicobacter pylori</i> , Homologous-Recombination Genes, and Gastric Cancer

Yoshiaki Usui, Yukari Taniyama, Mikiko Endo et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2023 · 239 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Oncology +15

Expansion of Cancer Risk Profile for <i>BRCA1</i> and <i>BRCA2</i> Pathogenic Variants

Yukihide Momozawa, Rumi Sasai, Yoshiaki Usui et al. · JAMA Oncology · 2022 · 209 citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Oncology +17