[HTML][HTML] Circulating ceramides as biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: Evidence from phenotypic and genomic studies

KA McGurk, BD Keavney, A Nicolaou - Atherosclerosis, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a need for new biomarkers of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ACVD), the
main cause of death globally. Ceramides, a class of potent bioactive lipid mediators, have …

Integrating lipidomics and genomics: emerging tools to understand cardiovascular diseases

R Tabassum, S Ripatti - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide
leading to 31% of all global deaths. Early prediction and prevention could greatly reduce the …

Comprehensive genetic analysis of the human lipidome identifies loci associated with lipid homeostasis with links to coronary artery disease

G Cadby, C Giles, PE Melton, K Huynh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We integrated lipidomics and genomics to unravel the genetic architecture of lipid
metabolism and identify genetic variants associated with lipid species putatively in the …

Whole genome sequence analysis of blood lipid levels in> 66,000 individuals

MS Selvaraj, X Li, Z Li, A Pampana, DY Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Blood lipids are heritable modifiable causal factors for coronary artery disease. Despite well-
described monogenic and polygenic bases of dyslipidemia, limitations remain in discovery …

Concordant inter-laboratory derived concentrations of ceramides in human plasma reference materials via authentic standards

F Torta, N Hoffmann, B Burla, I Alecu, M Arita… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In this community effort, we compare measurements between 34 laboratories from 19
countries, utilizing mixtures of labelled authentic synthetic standards, to quantify by mass …

Lipids and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A two‐sample Mendelian randomization study

K Xia, V Klose, J Högel, T Huang… - European journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Previous observational studies revealed a potential but partially controversial
relation between lipid metabolism and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

Metabolomics to identify fingerprints of carotid atherosclerosis in nonobese metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease

C Shao, L Xu, P Lei, W Wang, S Feng, J Ye… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background/aims Nonobese metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is
paradoxically associated with improved metabolic and pathological features at diagnosis but …

APOE ε2 resilience for Alzheimer's disease is mediated by plasma lipid species: Analysis of three independent cohort studies

T Wang, K Huynh, C Giles, NA Mellett… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction The apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype is the strongest genetic risk
factor for late‐onset Alzheimer's disease. However, its effect on lipid metabolic pathways …

The potential of integrating human and mouse discovery platforms to advance our understanding of cardiometabolic diseases

AW Jurrjens, MM Seldin, C Giles, PJ Meikle, BG Drew… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Cardiometabolic diseases encompass a range of interrelated conditions that arise from
underlying metabolic perturbations precipitated by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle …

Sphingolipids in the heart: from cradle to grave

A Kovilakath, M Jamil, LA Cowart - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide and this has largely
been driven by the increase in metabolic disease in recent decades. Metabolic disease …