The epigenomic analysis of human obesity

CG Bell - Obesity, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… This makes epigenomic analysis an attractive prospect to further understand the … of obesity.
Furthermore, integrating epigenomic data with known obesity-associated common genetic

[HTML][HTML] Molecular genetics of human obesity: A comprehensive review

RK Singh, P Kumar, K Mahalingam - Comptes rendus biologies, 2017 - Elsevier
… The genetic aspects of obesity lead to mutations in various genes responsible for controlling
… of genetic determinants of obesity. It includes studies of severe forms of obesity, genome-…

Hypermethylation of the TSPOAP1-AS1 promoter may be associated with obesity in overweight/obese Korean subjects

NH Yim, MH Cha, MS Kim - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
… in obesity. In this study, we evaluated DNA methylation level at the promoter region of the …
subjects comprising 104 of normal and 80 of overweight/obese were enrolled in this study. …

Integration of human adipocyte chromosomal interactions with adipose gene expression prioritizes obesity-related genes from GWAS

DZ Pan, KM Garske, M Alvarez, YV Bhagat… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… Understanding the genetic and molecular mechanisms that underlie obesity-related …
promoter Capture Hi–C in human adipocytes to investigate interactions between gene promoters

Chromosomal architecture and placental expression of the human growth hormone gene family are targeted by pre-pregnancy maternal obesity

Y Jin, H Vakili, SY Liu, S Menticoglou… - American Journal …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
… and enhancer regions are implicated in hCS gene expression. A placenta-specific … V and
hCS but not hGH gene promoters, was detected in placentas from lean women (BMI <25 kg/m 2 …

Natural human genetic variation determines basal and inducible expression of PM20D1, an obesity-associated gene

KK Benson, W Hu, AH Weller… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
… of the TSS have strong effects on PM20D1 expression in human fat as well as other tissues.
A … variants may account for human genetic associations in this region with obesity as well as …

CRISPR-mediated activation of a promoter or enhancer rescues obesity caused by haploinsufficiency

N Matharu, S Rattanasopha, S Tamura, L Maliskova… - Science, 2019 - science.org
… other haploinsufficient genes, we targeted Mc4r, where haploinsufficiency leads to … obesity
in mice and humans. CRISPRa-rAAV targeting of the Mc4r promoter rescued the obesity

Integrative analysis revealing human adipose-specific genes and consolidating obesity loci

J Ahn, H Wu, K Lee - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
… of the etiology of obesity. In conclusion, our analysis identified adipose-specific genes
and revealed evidence for their relationship with genetic causality of obesity, providing an …

A collective diabetes cross in combination with a computational framework to dissect the genetics of human obesity and Type 2 diabetes

H Vogel, A Kamitz, N Hallahan, S Lebek… - Human Molecular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… In addition to the phenotypic diversity between the different inbred strains of mice we
analyzed their genetic structure. The residual patterns of heterozygosity within the five breeding …

Human adipose tissue H3K4me3 histone mark in adipogenic, lipid metabolism and inflammatory genes is positively associated with BMI and HOMA-IR

D Castellano-Castillo, PD Denechaud, L Fajas… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… In this study, we applied this method to analyze histone methylations in adipose tissue of a
… We analyzed promoter H3K4me3 levels and the gene expression of specific genes related to …