ToyodaH, HondaY, TanakaS, MiyagawaT, HondaM, HondaK, TokunagaK, and KodamaT. Narcolepsy susceptibility gene CCR3 modulates sleep-wake patterns in mice. PLoS One 12(11): e0187888, 2017.

KannabiranC, UetaM, SangwanV, RathiV, BasuS, TokunagaK, and KinoshitaS. Association of human leukocyte antigens class 1 genes with Stevens Johnson Syndrome with severe ocular complications in Indian population. Sci. Rep. 7(1): e15960, 2017.

LeeMH, HwangYH, ChenHY, KhorCS, ChangYH, LinYJ, JenCL, LuSN, NishidaN, MizokamiM, YuanY, L’Italien G, TokunagaK, and ChenCJ; REVEAL-HCV cohort. Human leukocyte antigen Variants and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma modified by HCV genotypes: A genome-wide association study. Hepatology 67(2): 651-661, 2018.

Omae Y, Toyo-oka L, Yanai H, Nedsuwan S, Wattanapokayakit S, Satproedprai N, Smittipat N, Palittapongarnpim P, Sawanpanyalert P, Inunchot W, Pasomsub E, Wichukchinda N, Mushiroda T, Kubo M, Tokunaga K, and Mahasirumongkol S. Pathogen lineage-based genome-wide association study identified CD53 as susceptible locus in tuberculosis. J. Hum. Genet 62(12): 1015-1022, 2017.

Jinam TA, Phipps ME, Aghakhanian F, Majumder PP, Datar F, Stoneking M, Sawai H, Nishida N, Tokunaga K, Kawamura S, Omoto K and Saitou N. Discerning the origins of the Negritos, first Sundaland peoples: Deep divergence and archaic admixture. Genome Biol. Evol. 9(8): 2013-2022, 2017.

Toyo-OkaL, MahasirimongkolS, YanaiH, MushirodaT, WattanapokayakitS, WichukchindaN, YamadaN, SmittipatN, JuthayothinT, PalittapongarnpimP, NedsuwanS, KantipongP, TakahashiA, KuboM, SawanpanyalertP, and TokunagaK. Strain based HLA association analysis identified HLA-DRB1*09:01 associated with modern strain tuberculosis. HLA 90(3): 149-156, 2017.

Hitomi Y, Kojima K, Kawashima M, Kawai Y, Nishida N, Aiba Y, Yasunami M, Nagasaki M, Nakamura M, and Tokunaga K. Identification of the primary functional variant in an extended linkage disequilibrium block of human chromosome 17q12-21 in primary biliary cholangitis Sci. Rep. 7(1): e2904, 2017.

Sugiura-OgasawaraM*, OmaeY*(equal comtribution), KawashimaM, Toyo-OkaL, KhorS-S, SawaiH, HoritaT, AtsumiT, MurashimaA, FujitaD, FujitaT, MorimotoS, MorishitaE, KatsuragiS, KitaoriT, KatanoK, OzakiY, and TokunagaK. The first genome-wide association study identifying new susceptibility loci for obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome. J. Hum. Genet. 62(9): 831-838, 2017.

Trinks J, Nishida N, Hulaniuk ML, Caputo M, Tsuchiura T, Marciano S, Haddad L, Blejer J, Bartoli S, Ameigeiras B, Frias SE, Vistarini C, Heinrich F, Remondegui C, Ceballos S, Echenique G, Charre Samman M, D’Amico C, Rojas A, Martinez A, Ridruejo E, Fernandez RJ, Pratx LB, Salamone H, Nunez F, Galdame O, Gadano A, Corach D, Sugiyama M, Flichman D, Tokunaga K, and Mizokami M. Role of HLA-DP and HLA-DQ on the clearance of hepatitis B virus and the risk of chronic infection in a multiethnic population. Liver Int. 37(10): 1476-1487, 2017.

Ikeda M, Takahashi A, Kamatani Y, Okahisa Y, Kunugi H, Mori N, Sasaki T, Ohmori T, Okamoto Y, Kawasaki H, Shimodera S, Kato T, Yoneda H, Yoshimura R, Iyo M, Matsuda K, Akiyama M, Ashikawa K, Kashiwase K, Tokunaga K, Kondo K, Saito T, Shimasaki A, Kawase K, Kitajima T, Matsuo K, Itokawa M, Someya T, Inada T, Hashimoto R, Inoue T, Akiyama K, Tanii H, Arai H, Kanba S, Ozaki N, Kusumi I, Yoshikawa T, Kubo M and Iwata N. A genome-wide association study identifies two novel susceptibility loci and trans population polygenicity associated with bipolar disorder. Mol. Psychiatry 23(3): 639-647, 2018.

Nagao Y, NishidaN, Toyo-Oka L, KawaguchiA, Amoroso A, Carrozzo M, Sata M, Mizokami M, Tokunaga K, and Tanaka Y. Genome-wide association study identifies risk variants for lichen planus in patients with hepatitis C virus infection. Clin. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 15(6): 937-944, 2017.

Ohigashi I, Ohte Y, Setoh K, Nakase H, Maekawa A, Kiyonari H, Hamazaki Y, Sekai M, Sudo T, Tabara Y, Sawai H, Omae Y, Yuliwulandari R, Tanaka Y, Mizokami M, Inoue H, Kasahara M, Minato N, Tokunaga K, Tanaka K, Matsuda F, Murata S, and Takahama Y. A human PSMB11 variant affects thymoproteasome processing and CD8+ T cell production. JCI Insight 2(10): e93664, 2017.

Wakamatsu TH, Ueta M, Tokunaga K, Okada Y, Loureiro RR, Costa KA, Sallum JM, Milhomens JA, Inoue C, Sotozono C, Gomes JA, and Kinoshita S. Human leukocyte antigen class I genes associated with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and severe ocular complications following use of cold medicine in a Brazilian population. JAMA Ophthalmol. 135(4): 355-360, 2017.

Matsuura K, Sawai H, Ikeo K, Ogawa S, Iio E, Isogawa M, Shimada N, Komori A, Toyoda H, Kumada T, Namisaki T, Yoshiji H, Sakamoto N, Nakagawa M, Asahina Y, Kurosaki M, Izumi N, Enomoto N, Kusakabe A, Kajiwara E, Itoh Y, Ide T, Tamori A, Matsubara M, Kawada N, Shirabe K, Tomita E, Honda M, Kaneko S, Nishina S, Suetsugu A, Hiasa Y, Watanabe H, Genda T, Sakaida I, Nishiguchi S, Takaguchi K, Tanaka E, Sugihara J, Shimada M, Kondo Y, Kawai Y, Kojima K, Nagasaki M, Tokunaga K, and Tanaka Y. Genome-wide association study identifies a TLL1 variant associated with developing hepatocellular carcinoma after eradication of hepatitis C virus. Gastroenterol. 152(6): 1383-1394, 2017.

Kawashima M*, Hitomi Y*, Aiba Y*, Nishida N*, Kojima K* (equal contribution),Kawai Y, Nakamura H, TanakaA, Zeniya M, Hashimoto E, Ohira H, Yamamoto K, Abe M, Nakao K, Yamagiwa S, Kaneko S, Honda M, Umemura T, Ichida T, Seike M, Sakisaka S, Harada M, Yokosuka O, Ueno Y, Senju M, Kanda T, Shibata H, Himoto T, Murata K, Miyake Y, Ebinuma H, Taniai M, Joshita S, Nikami T, Ota H, Kouno H, Kouno H, Nakamuta M, Fukushima N,Kohjima M,Komatsu T, Komeda T, Ohara Y, Muro T,Yamashita T,Yoshizawa K, Nakamura Y, Shimada M, Hirashima N, Sugi K, Ario K, Takesaki E, Naganuma A,Mano H, Yamashita H, Matsushita K, Yamauchi K, Makita F, Nishimura H, Furuta K, Takahashi N, Kikuchi M, Masaki N, Tanaka T, Tamura S, Mori A, Yagi S, Shirabe K, Komori A, Migita K, Ito M, Nagaoka S, Abiru S, Yatsuhashi H, Yasunami M, Shimoda S, Harada K, Egawa H, Maehara Y, Uemoto S, Kokudo N,Takikawa H, Ishibashi H, Chayama K, Mizokami M, Nagasaki M,Tokunaga K,and Nakamura M. Genome-wide association studies identify PRKCB as a novel genetic susceptibility locus for primary biliary cirrhosis in the Japanese population. Hum. Mol. Genet. 26(3): 650-659, 2017.

Shimada-Sugimoto M, Otowa T, Miyagawa T, Umekage T, Kawamura Y, Bundo M, Iwamoto K, Tochigi M, Kasai K, Kaiya H, Tanii H, Okazaki Y, Tokunaga K, and Sasaki T. Epigenome-wide association study of DNA methylation in panic disorder. Clin. Epigenet. 9: e6, 2017.

Ueta M*, Sawai H* (equal contribution), Shingaki R, Kawai Y, Sotozono C, Kojima K, Yoon K-C, Kim MK, Seo KY, Joo C-K, Nagasaki M, Kinoshita S, and Tokunaga K. Genome-wide association study using the ethnicity-specific Japonica array: Identification of new susceptibility loci for cold medicine-related Stevens-Johnson syndrome with severe ocular complications. J. Hum. Genet. 62(4): 485-489, 2017.