The functional universe of membrane contact sites

WA Prinz, A Toulmay, T Balla - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Organelles compartmentalize eukaryotic cells, enhancing their ability to respond to
environmental and developmental changes. One way in which organelles communicate and …

Pharmacology, physiology, and mechanisms of incretin hormone action

JE Campbell, DJ Drucker - Cell metabolism, 2013 - cell.com
Incretin peptides, principally GLP-1 and GIP, regulate islet hormone secretion, glucose
concentrations, lipid metabolism, gut motility, appetite and body weight, and immune …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome

K Zhang, JD Hocker, M Miller, X Hou, J Chiou… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Current catalogs of regulatory sequences in the human genome are still incomplete and lack
cell type resolution. To profile the activity of gene regulatory elements in diverse cell types …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition

SE Berry, AM Valdes, DA Drew, F Asnicar, M Mazidi… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Metabolic responses to food influence risk of cardiometabolic disease, but large-scale high-
resolution studies are lacking. We recruited n= 1,002 twins and unrelated healthy adults in …

Causal relationships among the gut microbiome, short-chain fatty acids and metabolic diseases

S Sanna, NR van Zuydam, A Mahajan, A Kurilshikov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microbiome-wide association studies on large population cohorts have highlighted
associations between the gut microbiome and complex traits, including type 2 diabetes …

The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

J Chen, CN Spracklen, G Marenne, A Varshney… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic
health. To date, most genetic studies of glycemic traits have focused on individuals of …

Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals

CN Spracklen, M Horikoshi, YJ Kim, K Lin, F Bragg… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 240
loci that are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D),; however, most of these loci have been …

Type 2 diabetes genetic loci informed by multi-trait associations point to disease mechanisms and subtypes: a soft clustering analysis

MS Udler, J Kim, M von Grotthuss… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease for which (1) disease-
causing pathways are incompletely understood and (2) subclassification may improve …

An expanded genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Europeans

RA Scott, LJ Scott, R Mägi, L Marullo, KJ Gaulton… - Diabetes, 2017 - Am Diabetes Assoc
To characterize type 2 diabetes (T2D)-associated variation across the allele frequency
spectrum, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data from 26,676 T2D …