[HTML][HTML] Fast and rigorous computation of gene and pathway scores from SNP-based summary statistics

D Lamparter, D Marbach, R Rueedi… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Integrating single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) p-values from genome-wide association
studies (GWAS) across genes and pathways is a strategy to improve statistical power and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic evidence for causal relationships between maternal obesity-related traits and birth weight

J Tyrrell, RC Richmond, TM Palmer, B Feenstra… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Neonates born to overweight or obese women are larger and at higher risk of
birth complications. Many maternal obesity-related traits are observationally associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in genetic and epigenetic research on type 2 diabetes

SH Kwak, KS Park - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a common complex metabolic disorder that has a strong
genetic predisposition. During the past decade, progress in genetic association studies has …

Desaturase and elongase-limiting endogenous long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis

JY Zhang, KSD Kothapalli… - Current Opinion in Clinical …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Desaturase and elongase-limiting endogenous long-chain polyu... : Current Opinion in Clinical
Nutrition & Metabolic Care Desaturase and elongase-limiting endogenous long-chain …

The importance of gene–environment interactions in human obesity

H Reddon, JL Guéant, D Meyre - Clinical science, 2016 - portlandpress.com
The worldwide obesity epidemic has been mainly attributed to lifestyle changes. However,
who becomes obese in an obesity-prone environment is largely determined by genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular genetic contributions to social deprivation and household income in UK Biobank

WD Hill, SP Hagenaars, RE Marioni, SE Harris… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Individuals with lower socio-economic status (SES) are at increased risk of physical and
mental illnesses and tend to die at an earlier age [1–3]. Explanations for the association …

Type 2 diabetes: genetic data sharing to advance complex disease research

J Flannick, JC Florez - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
As with other complex diseases, unbiased association studies followed by physiological and
experimental characterization have for years formed a paradigm for identifying genes or …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies in the Japanese population identify seven novel loci for type 2 diabetes

M Imamura, A Takahashi, T Yamauchi, K Hara… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 80 susceptibility loci
for type 2 diabetes (T2D), but most of its heritability still remains to be elucidated. In this …

Causal assessment of serum urate levels in cardiometabolic diseases through a Mendelian randomization study

T Keenan, W Zhao, A Rasheed, WK Ho, R Malik… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - jacc.org
Background: Although epidemiological studies have reported positive associations between
circulating urate levels and cardiometabolic diseases, causality remains uncertain …