Masahiro Kanai

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• Mechanism of age-related accumulation of mtDNA mutations in human blood

  Nature · 2026-05-27

• Widespread naturally variable human exons aid genetic interpretation

  Nature Communications · 2025-12-16

• Population-scale multiome immune cell atlas reveals complex disease driversPreprint

  medRxiv · 2025-11-27 · 4 citations

• Pan-UK Biobank genome-wide association analyses enhance discovery and resolution of ancestry-enriched effects

  Nature Genetics · 2025-09-18 · 63 citations

• Identification and replication of sex-dimorphic protein quantitative trait loci across multiple ancestries and their associations with diseases

  Scientific Reports · 2025-08-28 · 1 citations

• Deciphering state-dependent immune features from multi-layer omics data at single-cell resolution

  Nature Genetics · 2025-07-28 · 9 citations

• Genome-wide association study of long COVID

  Nature Genetics · 2025-05-21 · 36 citations

• Sensitive Transcriptomics and Genotyping reveals function of genetic variants in immunityPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-03-14 · 2 citations

• Germline variants and mosaic chromosomal alterations affect COVID-19 vaccine immunogenicity

  Cell Genomics · 2025-03-01 · 7 citations

• Blood DNA virome associates with autoimmune diseases and COVID-19

  Nature Genetics · 2025-01-01 · 19 citations

• Author Correction: The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2024-12-20

• X-chromosome and kidney function: evidence from a multi-trait genetic analysis of 908,697 individuals reveals sex-specific and sex-differential findings in genes regulated by androgen response elements

  UNC Libraries · 2024-11-20

• W28. EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE MIXED MODEL ASSOCIATION TOOL FOR SINGLE-CELL EQTL ANALYSIS

  European Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024-10-01 · 2 citations

• Variant scoring performance across selection regimes depends on variant-to-gene and gene-to-disease componentsPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024-09-19 · 4 citations

• Widespread naturally variable human exons aid genetic interpretationPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024-09-11 · 1 citations

• Quantification of escape from X chromosome inactivation with single-cell omics data reveals heterogeneity across cell types and tissues

  Cell Genomics · 2024-07-30 · 18 citations

• Causal relevance of different blood pressure traits on risk of cardiovascular diseases: GWAS and Mendelian randomisation in 100,000 Chinese adults

  Nature Communications · 2024-07-24 · 15 citations

• Autoimmune hypothyroidism GWAS reveals independent autoimmune and thyroid-specific contributions and an inverse relation with cancer riskPreprint

  Research Square · 2024-07-08 · 10 citations

• Principled distillation of UK Biobank phenotype data reveals underlying structure in human variation

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2024-07-04 · 18 citations