Causal factors underlying diabetes risk informed by Mendelian randomisation analysis: evidence, opportunities and challenges

S Yuan, J Merino, SC Larsson - Diabetologia, 2023 - Springer
Diabetes and its complications cause a heavy disease burden globally. Identifying
exposures, risk factors and molecular processes causally associated with the development …

Genetic and Epigenetic Landscape for Drug Development in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Y Chen, G Wang, J Chen, C Wang, X Dong… - Endocrine …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) faces challenges as all known
treatments are merely symptomatic. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not …

Identification of novel protein biomarkers and drug targets for colorectal cancer by integrating human plasma proteome with genome

J Sun, J Zhao, F Jiang, L Wang, Q Xiao, F Han… - Genome medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background The proteome is a major source of therapeutic targets. We conducted a
proteome-wide Mendelian randomization (MR) study to identify candidate protein markers …

Evaluating the causal effect of circulating proteome on the risk of osteoarthritis-related traits

Y Zhang, J Xie, S Wen, P Cao, W Xiao, J Zhu… - Annals of the …, 2023 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives This study aims to identify circulating proteins that are causally associated with
osteoarthritis (OA)-related traits through Mendelian randomisation (MR)-based analytical …

Type 1 diabetes, glycemic traits, and risk of dental caries: a Mendelian randomization study

L Tan, MM Zhong, YQ Zhao, J Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background: Regarding past epidemiological studies, there has been disagreement over
whether type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is one of the risk factors for dental caries. The purpose of …

ST2 and CSF‐1 as potential druggable targets of inflammatory bowel diseases: Results from two‐sample Mendelian randomization study

J Mi, X Wu, X Bai, Y Yang… - Clinical and Translational …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Novel druggable targets are warranted for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment. We
aimed to identify novel circulating proteins with causal associations with the risk of IBDs and …

Genetic susceptibility to COVID‐19 may increase the risk of erectile dysfunction: A two‐sample Mendelian randomization study

K Zhang, H Gao, M Chen - Andrologia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19) and erectile dysfunction (ED) have been
linked in some observational research, but the causality of this association in the European …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of potential drug targets for varicose veins: a Mendelian randomization analysis

J Lin, J Zhou, Z Liu, R Zeng, L Wang, F Li… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Increasing evidence suggested that plasma proteins were related to the onset
or severity of varicose veins. However, the causal association between the two had yet to be …

Exocrine proteins including trypsin (ogen) as a key biomarker in type 1 diabetes

L Bakinowska, T Vartak, T Phuthego, M Taylor… - Diabetes …, 2023 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Proteomic profiling can identify useful biomarkers. Monozygotic (MZ) twins
discordant for a condition represent an ideal test population. We aimed to investigate and …

Lessons and Applications of Omics Research in Diabetes Epidemiology

G Yu, HCH Tam, C Huang, M Shi, CKP Lim… - Current Diabetes …, 2024 - Springer
Learnings from these examples should facilitate other researchers to consider incorporating
research on omics technologies into their work to advance the field and our understanding …