India leads the world with largest number of diabetic subjects earning the dubious distinction
of being termed the “diabetes capital of the world”. According to the Diabetes Atlas 2006 …

In the 20th century industrialized nations have become afflicted with an unprecedented
pandemic of increased adiposity. In the United States, the epicenter of the epidemic, over …

This paper presents the 12th update of the human obesity gene map, which incorporates
published results up to the end of October 2005. Evidence from single‐gene mutation …

South Asians are at higher risk than White Caucasians for the development of obesity and
obesity-related non-communicable diseases (OR-NCDs), including insulin resistance, the …

Nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase (NPP)-type ectophosphodiesterases are
found at the cell surface as type-I or type-II transmembrane proteins, but are also found …

We study the problem of estimating high-dimensional regression models regularized by a
structured sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either the …

Autotaxin (ATX) is an ecto-enzyme responsible for lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) production in
blood. ATX is present in various biological fluids such as cerebrospinal and seminal fluids …

Type 2 Diabetes results from a complex physiologic process that includes the pancreatic
beta cells, peripheral glucose uptake in muscle, the secretion of multiple cytokines and …

Introduction: Childhood obesity is occurring at alarming rates in both developed and
developing countries.“Obesogenic” environmental factors must be associated with variants …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a heterogeneous condition that is related to both
defective insulin secretion and peripheral insulin resistance. Beta cells are the major organ …