Anti-obesity drug discovery: advances and challenges

TD Müller, M Blüher, MH Tschöp… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Enormous progress has been made in the last half-century in the management of diseases
closely integrated with excess body weight, such as hypertension, adult-onset diabetes and …

Trends in insulin resistance: insights into mechanisms and therapeutic strategy

M Li, X Chi, Y Wang, S Setrerrahmane… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The centenary of insulin discovery represents an important opportunity to transform diabetes
from a fatal diagnosis into a medically manageable chronic condition. Insulin is a key …

Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries

A Mishra, R Malik, T Hachiya, T Jürgenson, S Namba… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke—the second leading cause of
death worldwide—were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry …

Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations

C Tcheandjieu, X Zhu, AT Hilliard, SL Clarke… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of coronary artery disease (CAD)
incorporating nearly a quarter of a million cases, in which existing studies are integrated with …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations

CG Boer, K Hatzikotoulas, L Southam, L Stefánsdóttir… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Osteoarthritis affects over 300 million people worldwide. Here, we conduct a genome-wide
association study meta-analysis across 826,690 individuals (177,517 with osteoarthritis) and …

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Microbiome risk profiles as biomarkers for inflammatory and metabolic disorders

A Metwaly, S Reitmeier, D Haller - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The intestine harbours a complex array of microorganisms collectively known as the gut
microbiota. The past two decades have witnessed increasing interest in studying the gut …

Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …

Advancing human genetics research and drug discovery through exome sequencing of the UK Biobank

JD Szustakowski, S Balasubramanian, E Kvikstad… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The UK Biobank Exome Sequencing Consortium (UKB-ESC) is a private–public
partnership between the UK Biobank (UKB) and eight biopharmaceutical companies that …

Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis

M Vujkovic, JM Keaton, JA Lynch, DR Miller, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated type 2 diabetes (T2D) genetic susceptibility via multi-ancestry meta-analysis
of 228,499 cases and 1,178,783 controls in the Million Veteran Program (MVP), DIAMANTE …