Clinical laboratory tests are a critical component of the continuum of care. We evaluate the genetic basis of 35 blood and urine laboratory measurements in the UK Biobank (n …
High-throughput proteomics platforms measuring thousands of proteins in plasma combined with genomic and phenotypic information have the power to bridge the gap between the …
A Demirkan, P Henneman, A Verhoeven… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Metabolite quantitative traits carry great promise for epidemiological studies, and their genetic background has been addressed using Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) …
EJ Benjamin, J Dupuis, MG Larson, KL Lunetta… - BMC medical …, 2007 - Springer
Background Systemic biomarkers provide insights into disease pathogenesis, diagnosis, and risk stratification. Many systemic biomarker concentrations are heritable phenotypes …
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to study the genetic basis of a wide variety of complex diseases and other traits. We describe UK Biobank GWAS results for …
Serum concentration of hepatic enzymes are linked to liver dysfunction, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. We perform genetic analysis on serum levels of alanine …
F Renström, F Payne, A Nordström… - Human molecular …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple risk loci for common obesity (FTO, MC4R, TMEM18, GNPDA2, SH2B1, KCTD15, MTCH2, NEGR1 and …
A Albrechtsen, N Grarup, Y Li, T Sparsø, G Tian, H Cao… - Diabetologia, 2013 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Human complex metabolic traits are in part regulated by genetic determinants. Here we applied exome sequencing to identify novel associations of coding …
F Karpe, SK Vasan, SM Humphreys… - International Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Major progress has been made over the past decade in the understanding of the genetic background to chronic metabolic disease such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) and atherosclerotic …