Studying metabolism by NMR-based metabolomics

S Moco - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
During the past few decades, the direct analysis of metabolic intermediates in biological
samples has greatly improved the understanding of metabolic processes. The most used …

Atlas of plasma NMR biomarkers for health and disease in 118,461 individuals from the UK Biobank

H Julkunen, A Cichońska, M Tiainen, H Koskela… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Blood lipids and metabolites are markers of current health and future disease risk. Here, we
describe plasma nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) biomarker data for 118,461 …

An epidemiological introduction to human metabolomic investigations

AD Joshi, A Rahnavard, P Kachroo, KM Mendez… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2023 - cell.com
Metabolomics holds great promise for uncovering insights around biological processes
impacting disease in human epidemiological studies. Metabolites can be measured across …

Interplay of metabolome and gut microbiome in individuals with major depressive disorder vs control individuals

N Amin, J Liu, B Bonnechere… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Metabolomics reflect the net effect of genetic and environmental influences and
thus provide a comprehensive approach to evaluating the pathogenesis of complex …

An atlas of genetic scores to predict multi-omic traits

Y Xu, SC Ritchie, Y Liang, PRHJ Timmers, M Pietzner… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The use of omic modalities to dissect the molecular underpinnings of common diseases and
traits is becoming increasingly common. But multi-omic traits can be genetically predicted …

Human genetics uncovers MAP3K15 as an obesity-independent therapeutic target for diabetes

A Nag, RS Dhindsa, J Mitchell, C Vasavda… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
We performed collapsing analyses on 454,796 UK Biobank (UKB) exomes to detect gene-
level associations with diabetes. Recessive carriers of nonsynonymous variants in …

Ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores are risk enhancers for clinical cardiovascular disease assessments

GB Busby, S Kulm, A Bolli, J Kintzle… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Clinical implementation of new prediction models requires evaluation of their utility in a
broad range of intended use populations. Here we develop and validate ancestry-specific …

SGLT2 inhibition, circulating metabolites, and atrial fibrillation: a Mendelian randomization study

J Li, Y Yu, Y Sun, B Yu, X Tan, B Wang, Y Lu… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - Springer
Background Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have shown promise in
reducing the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the results are controversial and the …

Genome-wide characterization of circulating metabolic biomarkers

MK Karjalainen, S Karthikeyan, C Oliver-Williams… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Genome-wide association analyses using high-throughput metabolomics platforms have led
to novel insights into the biology of human metabolism,,,,,–. This detailed knowledge of the …

Constructing an atlas of associations between polygenic scores from across the human phenome and circulating metabolic biomarkers

S Fang, MV Holmes, TR Gaunt, GD Smith… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Background: Polygenic scores (PGS) are becoming an increasingly popular approach to
predict complex disease risk, although they also hold the potential to develop insight into the …