Peter M. Visscher

Broad Institute — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology(436), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals(303), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock(293), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation(98), Genetics and Plant Breeding(62)

Publications870 total

Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes
Nature·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
31. MULTI-ANCESTRY CONDITIONAL AND JOINT ANALYSIS (MANC-COJO) OF GWAS SUMMARY STATISTICS
European Neuropsychopharmacology·2025
HERITABLE POLYGENIC EDITING AND GENOMIC MEDICINE: FRONTIER, FUTILE OR FIASCO?
European Neuropsychopharmacology·2025
The effect of family history and polygenic risk scores on general and abdominal obesity in the Lifelines Cohort Study
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Direct effect of genetic ancestry on complex traits in a Mexican population
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Harnessing functional annotation to improve the accuracy and transferability of polygenic scores
Nature Reviews Genetics·2025
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2025
Large-scale GWAS of strabismus identifies risk loci and provides support for a link with maternal smoking
Nature Communications·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences: a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences
London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)·2025
Transcriptional and translational genetic control in blood contributes significantly to complex trait heritability and polygenic prediction
2025Open Access
The contribution of gametic phase disequilibrium to the heritability of complex traits
Nature Genetics·2025· 3 cited
Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences
Nature Human Behaviour·2025· 13 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?
Nature·2025Open Access
Grey‐Matter Structure Markers of Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's Conversion, Functioning and Cognition: A Meta‐Analysis Across 11 Cohorts
Human Brain Mapping·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?
Nature·2025· 17 citedOpen Access
The importance of family-based sampling for biobanks
Nature·2024· 21 citedOpen Access
Genetic architecture reconciles linkage and association studies of complex traits
Nature Genetics·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Family-GWAS reveals effects of environment and mating on genetic associations
2024· 26 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jian Yang(28), Michael E. Goddard(20), Naomi R. Wray(20), Grant W. Montgomery(11), Allan F. McRae(9), Nicholas G. Martin(8), Zhili Zheng(7), Tōnu Esko(7), Timothy M. Frayling(7), Ian J. Deary(7), Riccardo E. Marioni(6), Sang Lee(5), Mark I. McCarthy(5), Shaun Purcell(5), Zhihong Zhu(5), Loïc Yengo(5), Kathryn E. Kemper(5), Reedik Mägi(5), Andres Metspalu(5), Lili Milani(5)