Metabolomic epidemiology offers insights into disease aetiology

H Fuller, Y Zhu, J Nicholas, HA Chatelaine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolomic epidemiology is the high-throughput study of the relationship between
metabolites and health-related traits. This emerging and rapidly growing field has improved …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in high-throughput biofluid metabotyping by direct infusion and ambient ionization mass spectrometry

V Plekhova, K De Windt, M De Spiegeleer… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biofluid metabolomics is a popular tool for biomarker discovery to decipher disease-,
genetics-, and exposure-related metabolic alterations and is an essential component for …

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 …

Transferability of genetic loci and polygenic scores for cardiometabolic traits in British Pakistani and Bangladeshi individuals

QQ Huang, N Sallah, D Dunca, B Trivedi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Individuals with South Asian ancestry have a higher risk of heart disease than other
groups but have been largely excluded from genetic research. Using data from 22,000 …

Genome-wide association analysis of plasma lipidome identifies 495 genetic associations

L Ottensmann, R Tabassum, SE Ruotsalainen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The human plasma lipidome captures risk for cardiometabolic diseases. To discover new
lipid-associated variants and understand the link between lipid species and cardiometabolic …

Association of physical activity with bioactive lipids and cardiovascular events

RA Hoshi, Y Liu, H Luttmann-Gibson, S Tiwari… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: To clarify the mechanisms underlying physical activity (PA)-related
cardioprotection, we examined the association of PA with plasma bioactive lipids (BALs) and …

Nuclear and mitochondrial genetic variants associated with mitochondrial DNA copy number

A Koller, M Filosi, H Weissensteiner, F Fazzini… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) is a biomarker for mitochondrial dysfunction
associated with several diseases. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have …

Integrating common risk factors with polygenic scores improves the prediction of type 2 diabetes

Y Timasheva, Z Balkhiyarova, D Avzaletdinova… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
We tested associations between 13 established genetic variants and type 2 diabetes (T2D)
in 1371 study participants from the Volga-Ural region of the Eurasian continent, and …

Universal genome-wide association studies: Powerful joint ancestry and association testing

D Shriner, AR Bentley, MH Gouveia, EF Heuston… - Human Genetics and …, 2023 - cell.com
The vast majority of human populations and individuals have mixed ancestry. Consequently,
adjustment for locus-specific ancestry is essential for genetic association studies. To …

Transferability of genetic loci and polygenic scores for cardiometabolic traits in British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis

QQ Huang, N Sallah, D Dunca, B Trivedi, KA Hunt… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Abstract Background Individuals with South Asian ancestry have higher risk of heart disease
than other groups in Western countries; however, most genetic research has focused on …