Everything else here starts from a variant. This starts from a topic — the kind of thing you would type into a search box — and asks which of our positions turn up in the same papers. A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together. It is not a claim that the variant explains the topic, and for most of these the honest finding is that common variants explain very little of it.
How hard quitting is turns out to be partly a metabolic question.
21 variants · 134 papers
See what connects →The "sprinter gene" is the most oversold result in consumer genetics.
98 variants · 353 papers
See what connects →Running clubs, first marathons, and a watch telling you your VO2max.
14 variants · 73 papers
See what connects →Diagnoses are rising fast; the genetics is real and highly polygenic.
26 variants · 50 papers
See what connects →The field that taught genetics its hardest lesson about single genes.
57 variants · 221 papers
See what connects →One of the few places where a single variant is visible in the mirror.
103 variants · 452 papers
See what connects →The most-consumed drug on earth, metabolised at wildly different speeds.
27 variants · 95 papers
See what connects →Why some people wake at 5am without an alarm and others cannot.
42 variants · 79 papers
See what connects →GLP-1 drugs made obesity genetics a dinner-table subject.
9 variants · 19 papers
See what connects →Trading, betting, and every "should I?" at 2am. Over a million people were studied: 99 positions turned up, 46 of them shared with risky behaviour in driving, drinking, smoking or sex — one disposition showing through in several places at once. And none of the genes previously famous for this survived.
14 variants · 29 papers
See what connects →The one axis here where a common variant can move a number a clinic already measures. Lipid levels are among the most heritable ordinary measurements in medicine — which is not the same as saying a genotype tells you what yours is.
127 variants · 439 papers
See what connects →Three different questions wear the same word. Who furs their arteries, who has a heart attack early, and whose heart falls out of rhythm are separate problems with separate genetics — and this site keeps them on separate pages for that reason.
230 variants · 908 papers
See what connects →The most-studied common disease there is, and the one where the gap between what genetics found and what changes an outcome is widest. Hundreds of positions are associated with type 2 diabetes; together they predict less about who develops it than a waist measurement and a family history do.
296 variants · 1479 papers
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A subject people actually search for — sleep, running, personality — paired with the variants that share a published paper with it, counted in Europe PMC.
No. A shared paper means researchers wrote about the topic and the variant together, not that the variant explains the topic — and for most of these, common variants explain very little of it.
Europe PMC is searched for that topic’s specific terms appearing in a paper’s title or abstract alongside a published rsID. Full text is deliberately excluded — it returns papers with an rsID buried in a supplementary table, not papers about the topic.
Recounted monthly, and the topic list itself is revised when the conversation moves — a subject that stops being talked about stops earning a place on it.