Mendelian randomization: concepts and scope

RC Richmond, GD Smith - Cold Spring …, 2022 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a method of studying the causal effects of modifiable
exposures (ie, potential risk factors) on health, social, and economic outcomes using genetic …

GDF15: emerging biology and therapeutic applications for obesity and cardiometabolic disease

D Wang, EA Day, LK Townsend, D Djordjevic… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is a member of the TGFβ superfamily
whose expression is increased in response to cellular stress and disease as well as by …

Plasma proteomic associations with genetics and health in the UK Biobank

BB Sun, J Chiou, M Traylor, C Benner, YH Hsu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Pharma Proteomics Project is a precompetitive biopharmaceutical consortium
characterizing the plasma proteomic profiles of 54,219 UK Biobank participants. Here we …

Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets

JH Zhao, D Stacey, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating proteins have important functions in inflammation and a broad range of diseases.
To identify genetic influences on inflammation-related proteins, we conducted a genome …

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, W Zhang, MCY Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls …

Persistent complement dysregulation with signs of thromboinflammation in active Long Covid

C Cervia-Hasler, SC Brüningk, T Hoch, B Fan, G Muzio… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Long Covid is a debilitating condition of unknown etiology. We performed multimodal
proteomics analyses of blood serum from COVID-19 patients followed up to 12 months after …

Large-scale integration of the plasma proteome with genetics and disease

E Ferkingstad, P Sulem, BA Atlason… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The plasma proteome can help bridge the gap between the genome and diseases. Here we
describe genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of plasma protein levels measured with …

Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries

A Mishra, R Malik, T Hachiya, T Jürgenson, S Namba… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke—the second leading cause of
death worldwide—were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry …

Large-scale plasma proteomics comparisons through genetics and disease associations

GH Eldjarn, E Ferkingstad, SH Lund, H Helgason… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput proteomics platforms measuring thousands of proteins in plasma combined
with genomic and phenotypic information have the power to bridge the gap between the …

The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank

BV Halldorsson, HP Eggertsson, KHS Moore… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Detailed knowledge of how diversity in the sequence of the human genome affects
phenotypic diversity depends on a comprehensive and reliable characterization of both …