Global view of human protein glycosylation pathways and functions

KT Schjoldager, Y Narimatsu, HJ Joshi… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Glycosylation is the most abundant and diverse form of post-translational modification of
proteins that is common to all eukaryotic cells. Enzymatic glycosylation of proteins involves a …

Twelve years of GWAS discoveries for osteoporosis and related traits: advances, challenges and applications

X Zhu, W Bai, H Zheng - Bone research, 2021 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disease, affecting~ 200 million people around the world.
As a complex disease, osteoporosis is influenced by many factors, including diet (eg calcium …

Identification of 153 new loci associated with heel bone mineral density and functional involvement of GPC6 in osteoporosis

JP Kemp, JA Morris, C Medina-Gomez, V Forgetta… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is a common disease diagnosed primarily by measurement of bone mineral
density (BMD). We undertook a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 142,487 …

Whole‐genome sequencing identifies EN1 as a determinant of bone density and fracture

HF Zheng, V Forgetta, YH Hsu, K Estrada… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The extent to which low‐frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) between 1–5%) and rare
(MAF≤ 1%) variants contribute to complex traits and disease in the general population is …

Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis

BD Hobbs, K De Jong, M Lamontagne, Y Bossé… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide.
We performed a genetic association study in 15,256 cases and 47,936 controls, with …

Five years of GWAS discovery

PM Visscher, MA Brown, MI McCarthy… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
The past five years have seen many scientific and biological discoveries made through the
experimental design of genome-wide association studies (GWASs). These studies were …

Assessment of the genetic and clinical determinants of fracture risk: genome wide association and mendelian randomisation study

K Trajanoska, JA Morris, L Oei, HF Zheng, DM Evans… - bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Objectives To identify the genetic determinants of fracture risk and assess the role of 15
clinical risk factors on osteoporotic fracture risk. Design Meta-analysis of genome wide …

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture

K Estrada, U Styrkarsdottir, E Evangelou, YH Hsu… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Bone mineral density (BMD) is the most widely used predictor of fracture risk. We performed
the largest meta-analysis to date on lumbar spine and femoral neck BMD, including 17 …

Control of mucin-type O-glycosylation: a classification of the polypeptide GalNAc-transferase gene family

EP Bennett, U Mandel, H Clausen, TA Gerken… - …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Glycosylation of proteins is an essential process in all eukaryotes and a great diversity in
types of protein glycosylation exists in animals, plants and microorganisms. Mucin-type O …

[HTML][HTML] Bone composition: relationship to bone fragility and antiosteoporotic drug effects

AL Boskey - BoneKEy reports, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The composition of a bone can be described in terms of the mineral phase, hydroxyapatite,
the organic phase, which consists of collagen type I, noncollagenous proteins, other …