Precision medicine in diabetes prevention, classification and management

F Xie, JCN Chan, RCW Ma - Journal of diabetes investigation, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Diabetes has become a major burden of healthcare expenditure. Diabetes management
following a uniform treatment algorithm is often associated with progressive treatment failure …

Progress in defining the genetic contribution to type 2 diabetes susceptibility

AP Morris - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2018 - Elsevier
Candidate gene, genome-wide association, exome array and sequencing studies have
identified more than 140 loci associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility. In this …

Evaluation of polygenic determinants of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by a candidate genes resequencing strategy

A Di Costanzo, F Belardinilli, D Bailetti, M Sponziello… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
NAFLD is a polygenic condition but the individual and cumulative contribution of identified
genes remains to be established. To get additional insight into the genetic architecture of …

[HTML][HTML] Genes associated with type 2 diabetes and vascular complications

A Montesanto, AR Bonfigli, P Crocco… - Aging (Albany …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a chronic disease associated with a number of micro-and
macrovascular complications that increase the morbidity and mortality of patients. The risk of …

[PDF][PDF] Interpreting predictive models for human-in-the-loop analytics

H Bastani, O Bastani, C Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - hamsabastani.github.io
Machine learning is increasingly used to inform consequential decisions. Yet, these
predictive models have been found to exhibit unexpected defects when trained on real …

Using whole genome scores to compare three clinical phenotyping methods in complex diseases

W Song, H Huang, CZ Zhang, DW Bates, A Wright - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies depend on accurate ascertainment of patient phenotype.
However, phenotyping is difficult, and it is often treated as an afterthought in these studies …

Role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma Pro12Ala polymorphism in human adipose tissue: assessment of adipogenesis and adipocyte glucose and …

PG Kamble, MJ Pereira, S Gustafsson, P Lundkvist… - Adipocyte, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The protective mechanisms of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ)
Pro12Ala polymorphism in type 2 diabetes (T2D) are unclear. We obtained subcutaneous …

The interaction of genetic predisposition and socioeconomic position with type 2 diabetes mellitus: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the Lifelines Cohort …

SKR van Zon, SA Reijneveld… - Psychosomatic …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective A strong genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) may aggravate
the negative effects of low socioeconomic position (SEP) in the etiology of the disorder. This …

Predicting with proxies: Transfer learning in high dimension

H Bastani - arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11097, 2018 - arxiv.org
Predictive analytics is increasingly used to guide decision-making in many applications.
However, in practice, we often have limited data on the true predictive task of interest, and …

Polygenic prediction of breast cancer: comparison of genetic predictors and implications for screening

K Läll, M Lepamets, M Palover, T Esko, A Metspalu… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Background Published genetic risk scores for breast cancer (BC) so far have been based on
a relatively small number of markers and are not necessarily using the full potential of large …