[HTML][HTML] Diabetes mellitus—Progress and opportunities in the evolving epidemic

ED Abel, AL Gloyn, C Evans-Molina, JJ Joseph… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Diabetes, a complex multisystem metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia, leads
to complications that reduce quality of life and increase mortality. Diabetes pathophysiology …

Understanding diabetes heterogeneity: key steps towards precision medicine in diabetes

RD Leslie, RCW Ma, PW Franks, KJ Nadeau… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Diabetes is a highly heterogeneous condition; yet, it is diagnosed by measuring a single
blood-borne metabolite, glucose, irrespective of aetiology. Although pragmatically helpful …

Refining the impact of genetic evidence on clinical success

EV Minikel, JL Painter, CC Dong, MR Nelson - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The cost of drug discovery and development is driven primarily by failure, with only about
10% of clinical programmes eventually receiving approval,–. We previously estimated that …

Multi-ancestry polygenic mechanisms of type 2 diabetes

K Smith, AJ Deutsch, C McGrail, H Kim, S Hsu… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a multifactorial disease with substantial genetic risk, for
which the underlying biological mechanisms are not fully understood. In this study, we …

Enhancing the Polygenic Score Catalog with tools for score calculation and ancestry normalization

SA Lambert, B Wingfield, JT Gibson, L Gil… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGSs) have transformed human genetic research and have numerous
potential clinical applications. Here we present a series of recent enhancements to the PGS …

Rare variant analyses in 51,256 type 2 diabetes cases and 370,487 controls reveal the pathogenicity spectrum of monogenic diabetes genes

A Huerta-Chagoya, P Schroeder, R Mandla, J Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2D) genome-wide association studies (GWASs) often overlook
rare variants as a result of previous imputation panels' limitations and scarce whole-genome …

Understanding the cause of type 2 diabetes

R Taylor - The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2024 - thelancet.com
Type 2 diabetes has long been thought to have heterogenous causes, even though
epidemiological studies uniformly show a tight relationship with overnutrition. The twin cycle …

Common pitfalls in drug target Mendelian randomization and how to avoid them

D Gill, MJ Dib, HT Cronjé, V Karhunen, B Woolf… - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Drug target Mendelian randomization describes the use of genetic
variants as instrumental variables for studying the effects of pharmacological agents. The …

Macrophages and T cells in metabolic disorder-associated cancers

D Taranto, DJ Kloosterman, L Akkari - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer and metabolic disorders have emerged as major global health challenges, reaching
epidemic levels in recent decades. Often viewed as separate issues, metabolic disorders …

Predicting type 2 diabetes via machine learning integration of multiple omics from human pancreatic islets

T Rönn, A Perfilyev, N Oskolkov, C Ling - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the fastest growing non-infectious disease worldwide.
Impaired insulin secretion from pancreatic beta-cells is a hallmark of T2D, but the …