The Role of TCF7L2 in Type 2 Diabetes

L del Bosque-Plata, E Martínez-Martínez… - Diabetes, 2021 - diabetesjournals.org
TCF7L2 is the most potent locus for type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk and the first locus to have
been robustly reported by genomic linkage studies. TCF7L2 is a transcription factor that …

Enhancers: five essential questions

LA Pennacchio, W Bickmore, A Dean… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Although enhancers are crucial and widespread gene-regulatory elements, we are far from
a complete understanding of how they function or their importance in areas such as disease …

Efficient integrative multi-SNP association analysis via deterministic approximation of posteriors

X Wen, Y Lee, F Luca, R Pique-Regi - The American Journal of Human …, 2016 - cell.com
With the increasing availability of functional genomic data, incorporating genomic
annotations into genetic association analysis has become a standard procedure. However …

The rs7903146 Variant in the TCF7L2 Gene Increases the Risk of Prediabetes/Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Adolescents by Impairing β-Cell Function and Hepatic …

C Cropano, N Santoro, L Groop, C Dalla Man… - Diabetes …, 2017 - diabetesjournals.org
OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to explore the mechanism by which TCF7L2 rs7903146
risk allele confers susceptibility to impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or type 2 diabetes (T2D) …

[HTML][HTML] BRCA1 and its network of interacting partners

CM Christou, K Kyriacou - Biology, 2012 - mdpi.com
BRCA1 is a large multi-domain protein with a pivotal role in maintaining genome stability
and cell cycle progression. Germline mutations in the BRCA1 gene confer an estimated …

How does the Mediterranean diet promote cardiovascular health? Current progress toward molecular mechanisms: Gene‐diet interactions at the genomic …

D Corella, JM Ordovas - Bioessays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Epidemiological evidence supports a health‐promoting effect of the Mediterranean Diet
(MedDiet), especially in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. These cardiovascular …

TCF7L2 and glucose metabolism: time to look beyond the pancreas

MA Nobrega - Diabetes, 2013 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Noncoding genetic variation in the locus encod-ing for the Wnt signaling effector TCF7L2
remains the strongest genetic determinant of type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk in humans. This …

Evidence of non-pancreatic beta cell-dependent roles of Tcf7l2 in the regulation of glucose metabolism in mice

KA Bailey, D Savic, M Zielinski, SY Park… - Human molecular …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Non-coding variation within TCF7L2 remains the strongest genetic determinant of type 2
diabetes risk in humans. A considerable effort has been placed in understanding the …

Admixture map** and fine-map** of type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci in African American women

JM Uribe-Salazar, JR Palmer, SA Haddad… - Journal of human …, 2018 - nature.com
African American women are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes. Genetic factors
may explain part of the excess risk. More than 100 genetic variants have been associated …

Characterization of the transcriptional machinery bound across the widely presumed type 2 diabetes causal variant, rs7903146, within TCF7L2

Q **a, S Deliard, CX Yuan, ME Johnson… - European Journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
Resolving the underlying functional mechanism to a given genetic association has proven
extremely challenging. However, the strongest associated type 2 diabetes (T2D) locus …