Importance of genetic studies of cardiometabolic disease in diverse populations

L Fernández-Rhodes, KL Young, AG Lilly… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… of the genetic underpinnings of cardiometabolic disease. Yet, … the populations who are most
affected by cardiometabolic … in a genomic region associated with a particular trait. Diverse …

Association of structural variation with cardiometabolic traits in Finns

L Chen, HJ Abel, I Das, DE Larson, L Ganel… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
… with cardiometabolic … and cardiometabolic traits in the Finnish population. We used
sensitive methods to identify and genotype 129,166 high-confidence SVs from deep whole-genome

Genetic risk scores for cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan African populations

K Ekoru, AA Adeyemo, G Chen… - International Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… studies in which genome-wide risk scores with correction for LD structure did not yield a
uniform improvement in predictive power across all traits and all populations evaluated in the …

Pedigree-and SNP-associated genetics and recent environment are the major contributors to anthropometric and cardiometabolic trait variation

C Xia, C Amador, J Huffman, H Trochet… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… Here we take advantage of genome-wide data and a large … on 16 anthropometric and
cardiometabolic traits. By analysing … phenotypic variation for these traits in our population. We find …

Obesity genomics and metabolomics: a nexus of cardiometabolic risk

JA Regan, SH Shah - Current cardiology reports, 2020 - Springer
… Overweight and obesity in the majority of the population operates as a prototypical common
complex disease. Early genome-wide studies that attempted discovery beyond candidate …

Obesity genetics and cardiometabolic health: Potential for risk prediction

DK Sanghera, C Bejar, S Sharma… - Diabetes, Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
genome sequencing in high-risk or susceptible populations.151 Furthermore, a potentially
productive and accurate prediction strategy for complex traits … poor cardiometabolic outcomes, …

Population study of the gut microbiome: associations with diet, lifestyle, and cardiometabolic disease

RL Walker, H Vlamakis, JWJ Lee, LA Besse… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
… contributes to many cardiometabolic traits by modulating host … As a large-scale
population-based cohort with extensive clinical … between the gut microbiome and cardiometabolic

Pleiotropy of cardiometabolic syndrome with obesity-related anthropometric traits determined using empirically derived kinships from the Busselton Health Study

G Cadby, PE Melton, NS McCarthy, M Almeida… - Human genetics, 2018 - Springer
traits to determine whether they share genetic risk factors (pleiotropy). We used genome-wide …
from a population-based study which includes both related and unrelated individuals. …

Genetic regulation of adipose gene expression and cardio-metabolic traits

M Civelek, Y Wu, C Pan, CK Raulerson, A Ko… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
… Among an approximately 680 known genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci for
cardio-metabolic traits, we identified 140 coincident cis-eQTLs at 109 GWAS loci, including 93 …

Genomic and metabolomic profile associated to clustering of cardio-metabolic risk factors

VG Marrachelli, P Rentero, ML Mansego, JM Morales… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… The population included in the present study is the same that has been used in a previous
study of our group in which the risk of microalbuminuria was presented (Marrachelli VG, …