Immune cell profiling in atherosclerosis: role in research and precision medicine

DM Fernandez, C Giannarelli - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2022 - nature.com
Inflammation is intimately involved at all stages of atherosclerosis and remains a substantial
residual cardiovascular risk factor in optimally treated patients. The proof of concept that …

Macrophage Trafficking, Inflammatory Resolution, and Genomics in Atherosclerosis: JACC Macrophage in CVD Series (Part 2)

KJ Moore, S Koplev, EA Fisher, I Tabas… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Atherosclerosis is characterized by the retention of modified lipoproteins in the arterial wall.
These modified lipoproteins activate resident macrophages and the recruitment of monocyte …

Cardiometabolic risk loci share downstream cis-and trans-gene regulation across tissues and diseases

O Franzén, R Ermel, A Cohain, NK Akers, A Di Narzo… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of cardiometabolic
disease (CMD) risk loci. However, they contribute little to genetic variance, and most …

Relevance of multi-omics studies in cardiovascular diseases

P Leon-Mimila, J Wang… - Frontiers in cardiovascular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death around the world. Despite the
larger number of genes and loci identified, the precise mechanisms by which these genes …

HDL and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: genetic insights into complex biology

RS Rosenson, HB Brewer Jr, PJ Barter… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Plasma levels of HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) predict the risk of cardiovascular disease at the
epidemiological level, but a direct causal role for HDL in cardiovascular disease remains …

Genome-wide significant loci: how important are they? Systems genetics to understand heritability of coronary artery disease and other common complex disorders

JLM Björkegren, JC Kovacic, JT Dudley… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - jacc.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been extensively used to study common
complex diseases such as coronary artery disease (CAD), revealing 153 suggestive CAD …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-tissue regulatory gene networks in coronary artery disease

HA Talukdar, HF Asl, RK Jain, R Ermel, A Ruusalepp… - Cell systems, 2016 - cell.com
Inferring molecular networks can reveal how genetic perturbations interact with
environmental factors to cause common complex diseases. We analyzed genetic and gene …

Multiethnic genome-wide meta-analysis of ectopic fat depots identifies loci associated with adipocyte development and differentiation

AY Chu, X Deng, VA Fisher, A Drong, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Variation in body fat distribution contributes to the metabolic sequelae of obesity. The
genetic determinants of body fat distribution are poorly understood. The goal of this study …

Risk prediction of cardiovascular events by exploration of molecular data with explainable artificial intelligence

AM Westerlund, JS Hawe, M Heinig… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) annually take almost 18 million lives worldwide. Most lethal
events occur months or years after the initial presentation. Indeed, many patients experience …

Prediction of causal candidate genes in coronary artery disease loci

I Brænne, M Civelek, B Vilne, A Di Narzo… - … , and vascular biology, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Objective—Genome-wide association studies have to date identified 159 significant and
suggestive loci for coronary artery disease (CAD). We now report comprehensive …