Genetics and Epigenetics in Obesity: What Do We Know so Far?

M Keller, SIA Svensson, K Rohde-Zimmermann… - Current Obesity …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Enormous progress has been made in understanding the
genetic architecture of obesity and the correlation of epigenetic marks with obesity and …

[HTML][HTML] Exercise-regulated lipolysis: Its role and mechanism in health and diseases

JY Zhu, L Guo - Journal of Advanced Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Exercise has received considerable attention because of its importance not just in regulating
physiological function, but also in ameliorating multiple pathological processes. Among …

Multi-ancestry polygenic mechanisms of type 2 diabetes

K Smith, AJ Deutsch, C McGrail, H Kim, S Hsu… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a multifactorial disease with substantial genetic risk, for
which the underlying biological mechanisms are not fully understood. In this study, we …

Genome-wide discovery and integrative genomic characterization of insulin resistance loci using serum triglycerides to HDL-cholesterol ratio as a proxy

N DeForest, Y Wang, Z Zhu, JS Dron… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Insulin resistance causes multiple epidemic metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, and fatty liver, but is not routinely measured in epidemiological …

A ONECUT1 regulatory, non-coding region in pancreatic development and diabetes

S Merz, V Senée, A Philippi, F Oswald, M Shaigan… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
In a patient with permanent neonatal syndromic diabetes clinically similar to cases with
ONECUT1 biallelic mutations, we identified a disease-causing deletion located upstream of …

Accounting for genetic effect heterogeneity in fine-mapping and improving power to detect gene-environment interactions with SharePro

W Zhang, R Sladek, Y Li, H Najafabadi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Classical gene-by-environment interaction (GxE) analysis can be used to characterize
genetic effect heterogeneity but has a high multiple testing burden in the context of genome …

A bioinformatics toolbox to prioritize causal genetic variants in candidate regions

M Šimon, M Čater, T Kunej, NM Morton, S Horvat - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
This review addresses the significant challenge of identifying causal genetic variants within
quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for complex traits and diseases. Despite progress in detecting …

Common and ethnic-specific derangements in skeletal muscle transcriptome associated with obesity

SS Das, SK Das - International Journal of Obesity, 2024 - nature.com
Background Obesity is a common disease with a higher prevalence among African
Americans. Obesity alters cellular function in many tissues, including skeletal muscle, and is …

Dissection of type 2 diabetes: a genetic perspective

A Bonnefond, JC Florez, RJF Loos… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2025 - thelancet.com
Diabetes is a leading cause of global mortality and disability, and its economic burden is
substantial. This Review focuses on type 2 diabetes, which makes up 90–95% of all …

Multi-omics characterization of type 2 diabetes associated genetic variation

R Mandla, K Lorenz, X Yin, O Bocher… - medRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Discerning the mechanisms driving type 2 diabetes (T2D) pathophysiology from genome-
wide association studies (GWAS) remains a challenge. To this end, we integrated omics …