Mendelian randomization as a tool for cardiovascular research: a review

MG Levin, S Burgess - JAMA cardiology, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mendelian randomization (MR) is a statistical approach that has become
increasingly popular in the field of cardiovascular disease research. It offers a way to infer …

Smoking changes adaptive immunity with persistent effects

V Saint-André, B Charbit, A Biton, V Rouilly… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Individuals differ widely in their immune responses, with age, sex and genetic factors having
major roles in this inherent variability,,,,–. However, the variables that drive such differences …

Pathophysiological insights into HFpEF from studies of human cardiac tissue

AU Fayyaz, M Eltony, LJ Prokop, KE Koepp… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a major, worldwide health-care
problem. Few therapies for HFpEF exist because the pathophysiology of this condition is …

Oxonium ion scanning mass spectrometry for large-scale plasma glycoproteomics

MEH White, LR Sinn, DM Jones, J de Folter… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Protein glycosylation, a complex and heterogeneous post-translational modification that is
frequently dysregulated in disease, has been difficult to analyse at scale. Here we report a …

Blood protein assessment of leading incident diseases and mortality in the UK Biobank

DA Gadd, RF Hillary, Z Kuncheva, T Mangelis… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
The circulating proteome offers insights into the biological pathways that underlie disease.
Here, we test relationships between 1,468 Olink protein levels and the incidence of 23 age …

Systemic proteome adaptions to 7-day complete caloric restriction in humans

M Pietzner, B Uluvar, KJ Kolnes, PB Jeppesen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Surviving long periods without food has shaped human evolution. In ancient and modern
societies, prolonged fasting was/is practiced by billions of people globally for religious …

Longitudinal plasma proteomics reveals biomarkers of alveolar-capillary barrier disruption in critically ill COVID-19 patients

E Duijvelaar, J Gisby, JE Peters, HJ Bogaard… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The pathobiology of respiratory failure in COVID-19 consists of a complex interplay between
viral cytopathic effects and a dysregulated host immune response. In critically ill patients …

Mapping biological influences on the human plasma proteome beyond the genome

J Carrasco-Zanini, E Wheeler, B Uluvar, N Kerrison… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Broad-capture proteomic platforms now enable simultaneous assessment of thousands of
plasma proteins, but most of these are not actively secreted and their origins are largely …

Single cell transcriptomes and multiscale networks from persons with and without Alzheimer's disease

Q Wang, J Antone, E Alsop, R Reiman, C Funk… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of single nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) offers to revolutionize the
study of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Integration with complementary multiomics data such as …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the genetic complexity of puberty timing across the allele frequency spectrum

KA Kentistou, LR Kaisinger, S Stankovic, M Vaudel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pubertal timing varies considerably and is associated with later health outcomes. We
performed multi-ancestry genetic analyses on~ 800,000 women, identifying 1,080 signals for …