Aysu Okbay

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Aysu Okbay is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit.

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Education/Academic qualification

Economics, PhD, Erasmus Universiteit

1 Aug 2012 → 1 Aug 2016

Economics, Master, Sabanci University, Istanbul

2010 → 2012

Economics, Bachelor, Sabanci University, Istanbul

2006 → 2010

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Research Output 2015 2019

18 Article
1 Meeting Abstract
1 Comment / Letter to the editor
1 Erratum

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

23Andme Research Team, Abdellaoui, A., Peyrot, W. J., Hottenga, J. J., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Willemsen, G., Boomsma, D. I., van Duijn, C. M., Penninx, B., Posthuma, D. & Uitterlinden, A. G., Aug 2018, In : Nature Genetics. 50, 8, p. 1112-1121 10 p.

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Open Access

File

Genome-Wide Association Study

Genetic Association Studies

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

Genome

Phenotype

Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG

Turley, P., Walters, R. K., Maghzian, O., Okbay, A., Lee, J. J., Fontana, M. A., Nguyen-Viet, T. A., Wedow, R., Zacher, M., Furlotte, N. A., Magnusson, P., Oskarsson, S., Johannesson, M., Visscher, P. M., Laibson, D., Cesarini, D., Neale, B. M., Benjamin, D. J., Agee, M., Alipanahi, B. & 25 othersAuton, A., Bell, R. K., Bryc, K., Elson, S. L., Fontanillas, P., Furlotte, N. A., Hinds, D. A., Hromatka, B. S., Huber, K. E., Kleinman, A., Litterman, N. K., McIntyre, M. H., Mountain, J. L., Northover, C. A. M., Sathirapongsasuti, J. F., Sazonova, O. V., Shelton, J. F., Shringarpure, S., Tian, C., Tung, J. Y., Vacic, V., Wilson, C. H., Pitts, S. J., 23Andme Research Team & Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, 2018, In : Nature Genetics. 50, p. 229–237

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Genome-Wide Association Study

Computational Biology

Analysis of Variance

Genome

Depression

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

Okbay, A., Beauchamp, J., Fontana, M. A., Lee, J. J., Pers, T. H., Rietveld, C. A., Turley, P., Chen, G. B., Emilsson, V., Meddens, S. F. W., de Vlaming, R., Abdellaoui, A., Peyrot, W., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Hottenga, J. J., Willemsen, G., Boomsma, D. I., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Laibson, D., Medland, S. E. & 8 othersMeyer, M. N., Yang, J., Johannesson, M., Visscher, P. M., Esko, T., Koellinger, P. D., Cesarini, D. & Benjamin, D. J., 2016, In : Nature. 533, 7604, p. 539-542

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Genome-Wide Association Study

Phenotype

Proxy

Cognition

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses.

Okbay, A., Baselmans, B. M. L., de Neve, J. E., Turley, P., Nivard, M. G., Fontana, M. A., Meddens, S. F. W., Karlsson Linnér, R., Rietveld, C. A., Derringer, J., de Vlaming, R., Minica, C. C., Hottenga, J. J., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Boomsma, D. I., de Geus, E. J. C., Medland, S. E., Meyer, M. N., Pickrell, J. K., Esko, T. & 6 othersKrueger, R. F., Beauchamp, J., Koellinger, P. D., Benjamin, D. J., Bartels, M. & Cesarini, D., 2016, In : Nature Genetics. 48, 6, p. 624-633

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Genome

Depression

Phenotype

Genome-Wide Association Study

Sample Size

Meta-GWAS Accuracy and Power (MetaGAP) Calculator Shows that Hiding Heritability Is Partially Due to Imperfect Genetic Correlations across Studies

de Vlaming, R., Okbay, A., Rietveld, C. A., Johannesson, M., Magnusson, P. K. E., Uitterlinden, A. G., van Rooij, F. J. A., Hofman, A., Groenen, P. J. F., Thurik, A. R. & Koellinger, P. D., 17 Jan 2017, In : PLoS Genetics. 13, 1, e1006495.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Genome-Wide Association Study

heritability

genetic correlation

genome

education