Promoting equity in polygenic risk assessment through global collaboration

IJ Kullo - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The long delay before genomic technologies become available in low-and middle-income
countries is a concern from both scientific and ethical standpoints. Polygenic risk scores …

Determinants of obesity in Latin America

SRG Ferreira, Y Macotela, LA Velloso, MA Mori - Nature metabolism, 2024 - nature.com
Obesity rates are increasing almost everywhere in the world, although the pace and timing
for this increase differ when populations from developed and developing countries are …

Building national patient registries in Mexico: insights from the MexOMICS Consortium

P Reyes-Pérez, AL Hernández-Ledesma… - Frontiers in Digital …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective To introduce MexOMICS, a Mexican Consortium focused on establishing
electronic databases to collect, cross-reference, and share health-related and omics data on …

Personalized medicine and nutrition in hepatology for preventing chronic liver disease in Mexico

A Panduro, S Roman, IM Mariscal-Martinez… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Chronic liver disease is a global health issue. Patients with chronic liver disease require a
fresh approach that focuses on the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to …

Nutrition, Other Environmental Influences, and Genetics in the Determination of Human Stature

JC Lui, AC Palmer, P Christian - Annual Review of Nutrition, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Linear growth during three distinct stages of life determines attained stature in adulthood:
namely, in utero, early postnatal life, and puberty and the adolescent period. Individual host …

Population diversity and equity in the genomic era: going global to return to the local

A Ruderman - Journal of Community Genetics, 2023 - Springer
Advances in precision medicine depend on the quantity and quality of available genomic
information. Various articles alert about the current disparities between the world's regions …

[HTML][HTML] Interpreting SNP heritability in admixed populations

J Huang, N Kleman, S Basu, MD Shriver, AA Zaidi - bioRxiv, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
SNP heritability hsnp 2 is defined as the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by
genotyped SNPs and is believed to be a lower bound of heritability (h 2), being equal to it if …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic interrogation for sequence and copy number variants in systemic lupus erythematosus

NKW Yeo, CK Lim, KN Yaung, NKH Khoo… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Early-onset systemic lupus erythematosus presents with a more severe disease and is
associated with a greater genetic burden, especially in patients from Black, Asian or …

[HTML][HTML] The Mexican Biobank Project promotes genetic discovery, inclusive science and local capacity building

M Sohail, A Moreno-Estrada - Disease Models & …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Diversifying genotype–phenotype databases is essential to understanding complex trait and
disease etiology across different environments and genetic ancestries. The rise of biobanks …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic evaluation of deep learning models for classifying germline variant pathogenicity

RD Chow, KL Nathanson, RB Parikh - NPJ Precision Oncology, 2024 - nature.com
Deep learning models for predicting variant pathogenicity have not been thoroughly
evaluated on real-world clinical phenotypes. Here, we apply state-of-the-art pathogenicity …