Genetic risk scores for diabetes diagnosis and precision medicine

MS Udler, MI McCarthy, JC Florez… - Endocrine …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
During the last decade, there have been substantial advances in the identification and
characterization of DNA sequence variants associated with individual predisposition to type …

Genetics of type 2 diabetes—pitfalls and possibilities

RB Prasad, L Groop - Genes, 2015 - mdpi.com
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex disease that is caused by a complex interplay between
genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors. While the major environmental factors, diet …

[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 …

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 …

Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects

H Xue, X Shen, W Pan - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
With the increasing availability of large-scale GWAS summary data on various complex traits
and diseases, there have been tremendous interests in applications of Mendelian …

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 …

The effect of host genetics on the gut microbiome

MJ Bonder, A Kurilshikov, EF Tigchelaar, Z Mujagic… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The gut microbiome is affected by multiple factors, including genetics. In this study, we
assessed the influence of host genetics on microbial species, pathways and gene ontology …