Understanding risk and causal mechanisms for developing obesity in infants and young children: A National Institutes of Health workshop

KM Aagaard, SL Barkin, CF Burant, S Carnell… - Obesity …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity in children remains a major public health problem, with the current prevalence in
youth ages 2–19 years estimated to be 19.7%. Despite progress in identifying risk factors …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative framework to prioritize genes in more than 500 loci associated with body mass index

D Hemerich, V Svenstrup, VD Obrero, M Preuss… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Obesity is a major risk factor for a myriad of diseases, affecting> 600 million people
worldwide. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified hundreds of genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamentals for predicting transcriptional regulations from DNA sequence patterns

M Koido, K Tomizuka, C Terao - Journal of Human Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Cell-type-specific regulatory elements, cataloged through extensive experiments and
bioinformatics in large-scale consortiums, have enabled enrichment analyses of genetic …

[HTML][HTML] MUSSEL: enhanced Bayesian polygenic risk prediction leveraging information across multiple ancestry groups

J Jin, J Zhan, J Zhang, R Zhao, J O'Connell, Y Jiang… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are now showing promising predictive performance on a wide
variety of complex traits and diseases, but there exists a substantial performance gap across …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity-Dependent Association of the rs10454142 PPP1R21 with Breast Cancer

I Ponomarenko, K Pasenov, M Churnosova, I Sorokina… - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this work was to find a link between the breast cancer (BC)-risk effects of sex
hormone-binding globulin (SHBG)-associated polymorphisms and obesity. The study was …

Rigorous evaluation of genetic and epigenetic effects on clinical laboratory measurements using Japanese monozygotic twins

J Taniguchi, T Masuda, Y Iwatani… - Clinical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The investigation of environmental effects on clinical measurements using individual
samples is challenging because their genetic and environmental factors are different …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology

K Suzuki, K Hatzikotoulas, L Southam, HJ Taylor, X Yin… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse
pathophysiological processes, and molecular mechanisms that are often specific to cell …

Mutational landscape of risk variants in comorbid depression and obesity: a next-generation sequencing approach

AM Pérez-Gutiérrez, R Carmona, C Loucera… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Major depression (MD) and obesity are complex genetic disorders that are frequently
comorbid. However, the study of both diseases concurrently remains poorly addressed and …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic evidence for involvement of β2-adrenergic receptor in brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in humans

Y Ishida, M Matsushita, T Yoneshiro, M Saito… - International Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Sympathetic activation of brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis can
ameliorate obesity and related metabolic abnormalities. However, crucial subtypes of the β …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-wide association study based on the China Kadoorie Biobank identifies genetic associations between snoring and cardiometabolic traits

Y Zhu, Z Zhuang, J Lv, D Sun, P Pei, L Yang… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the high prevalence of snoring in Asia, little is known about the genetic etiology of
snoring and its causal relationships with cardiometabolic traits. Based on 100,626 Chinese …