Machine learning in genomic medicine: a review of computational problems and data sets

MKK Leung, A Delong, B Alipanahi… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we provide an introduction to machine learning tasks that address important
problems in genomic medicine. One of the goals of genomic medicine is to determine how …

Calcium homeostasis and organelle function in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes

AP Arruda, GS Hotamisligil - Cell metabolism, 2015 - cell.com
A number of chronic metabolic pathologies, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular
disease, asthma, and cancer, cluster together to present the greatest threat to human health …

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

AE Locke, B Kahali, SI Berndt, AE Justice, TH Pers… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of
obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta …

The influence of age and sex on genetic associations with adult body size and shape: a large-scale genome-wide interaction study

TW Winkler, AE Justice, M Graff, L Barata… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants
contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI …

Leveraging functional-annotation data in trans-ethnic fine-mapping studies

G Kichaev, B Pasaniuc - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Localization of causal variants underlying known risk loci is one of the main research
challenges following genome-wide association studies. Risk loci are typically dissected …

Many obesity-associated SNPs strongly associate with DNA methylation changes at proximal promoters and enhancers

S Voisin, MS Almén, GY Zheleznyakova, L Lundberg… - Genome medicine, 2015 - Springer
Background The mechanisms by which genetic variants, such as single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs), identified in genome-wide association studies act to influence body …

Shaping fat distribution: new insights into the molecular determinants of depot‐and sex‐dependent adipose biology

SK Fried, MJ Lee, K Karastergiou - Obesity, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To review recent advances in understanding the cellular mechanisms that
regulate fat distribution. Methods In this review, new insights into depot and sex differences …

Association between waist circumference and gray matter volume in 2344 individuals from two adult community-based samples

D Janowitz, K Wittfeld, J Terock, HJ Freyberger… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
We analyzed the putative association between abdominal obesity (measured in waist
circumference) and gray matter volume (Study of Health in Pomerania: SHIP-2, N= 758) …

The genetics of pediatric obesity

A Chesi, SFA Grant - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2015 - cell.com
Obesity among children and adults has notably escalated over recent decades and
represents a global major health problem. We now know that both genetic and …

Neuroinflammation and comorbidities are frequently ignored factors in CNS pathology

RE Sandu, AM Buga, A Uzoni, EB Petcu… - Neural regeneration …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Virtually all drug interventions that have been successful pre-clinically in experimental stroke
have failed to prove their efficacy in a clinical setting. This could be partly explained by the …