Systems biology in cardiovascular disease: a multiomics approach

A Joshi, M Rienks, K Theofilatos, M Mayr - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
Omics techniques generate large, multidimensional data that are amenable to analysis by
new informatics approaches alongside conventional statistical methods. Systems theories …

Regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism in health and disease

L Chen, XW Chen, X Huang, BL Song, Y Wang… - Science China life …, 2019 - Springer
Glucose and fatty acids are the major sources of energy for human body. Cholesterol, the
most abundant sterol in mammals, is a key component of cell membranes although it does …

The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

SE Graham, SL Clarke, KHH Wu, S Kanoni, GJM Zajac… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied
prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use. Despite …

Population-specific and trans-ancestry genome-wide analyses identify distinct and shared genetic risk loci for coronary artery disease

S Koyama, K Ito, C Terao, M Akiyama, M Horikoshi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To elucidate the genetics of coronary artery disease (CAD) in the Japanese population, we
conducted a large-scale genome-wide association study of 168,228 individuals of Japanese …

Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank

N Sinnott-Armstrong, Y Tanigawa, D Amar, N Mars… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical laboratory tests are a critical component of the continuum of care. We evaluate the
genetic basis of 35 blood and urine laboratory measurements in the UK Biobank (n …

Genetics of blood lipids among~ 300,000 multi-ethnic participants of the Million Veteran Program

D Klarin, SM Damrauer, K Cho, YV Sun, TM Teslovich… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Million Veteran Program (MVP) was established in 2011 as a national research
initiative to determine how genetic variation influences the health of US military veterans …

[HTML][HTML] Trans effects on gene expression can drive omnigenic inheritance

X Liu, YI Li, JK Pritchard - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Early genome-wide association studies (GWASs) led to the surprising discovery that, for
typical complex traits, most of the heritability is due to huge numbers of common variants …

Association of monogenic vs polygenic hypercholesterolemia with risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

M Trinder, GA Francis, LR Brunham - JAMA cardiology, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Monogenic familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is associated with lifelong
elevations in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and increased risk of …

Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in> 300,000 individuals

DJ Liu, GM Peloso, H Yu, AS Butterworth, X Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We screened variants on an exome-focused genotyping array in> 300,000 participants
(replication in> 280,000 participants) and identified 444 independent variants in 250 loci …

A large electronic-health-record-based genome-wide study of serum lipids

TJ Hoffmann, E Theusch, T Haldar, DK Ranatunga… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 94,674 ancestrally diverse Kaiser Permanente
members using 478,866 longitudinal electronic health record (EHR)-derived measurements …