Mechanisms of action and therapeutic application of glucagon-like peptide-1

DJ Drucker - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) released from gut enteroendocrine cells controls meal-
related glycemic excursions through augmentation of insulin and inhibition of glucagon …

The cardiovascular biology of glucagon-like peptide-1

DJ Drucker - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Glucagon-like peptide-1, produced predominantly in enteroendocrine cells, controls glucose
metabolism and energy homeostasis through regulation of islet hormone secretion …

The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

J Chen, CN Spracklen, G Marenne, A Varshney… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic
health. To date, most genetic studies of glycemic traits have focused on individuals of …

Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, SJ Van Der Lee, AC Naj, C Bellenguez… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We identified rare coding variants associated with Alzheimer's disease in a three-stage case–
control study of 85,133 subjects. In stage 1, we genotyped 34,174 samples using a whole …

An expanded genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Europeans

RA Scott, LJ Scott, R Mägi, L Marullo, KJ Gaulton… - Diabetes, 2017 - diabetesjournals.org
To characterize type 2 diabetes (T2D)-associated variation across the allele frequency
spectrum, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data from 26,676 T2D …

Detection and interpretation of shared genetic influences on 42 human traits

JK Pickrell, T Berisa, JZ Liu, L Ségurel, JY Tung… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We performed a scan for genetic variants associated with multiple phenotypes by comparing
large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 42 traits or diseases. We identified 341 …

The impact of rare and low-frequency genetic variants in common disease

L Bomba, K Walter, N Soranzo - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Despite thousands of genetic loci identified to date, a large proportion of genetic variation
predisposing to complex disease and traits remains unaccounted for. Advances in …

Recent progress in genetics, epigenetics and metagenomics unveils the pathophysiology of human obesity

M Pigeyre, FT Yazdi, Y Kaur, D Meyre - Clinical science, 2016 - portlandpress.com
In high-, middle-and low-income countries, the rising prevalence of obesity is the underlying
cause of numerous health complications and increased mortality. Being a complex and …

Cohort Profile: The Framingham Heart Study (FHS): overview of milestones in cardiovascular epidemiology

CW Tsao, RS Vasan - International journal of epidemiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) has conducted seminal research defining
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and fundamentally sha** public health …

Identification of 28 new susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes in the Japanese population

K Suzuki, M Akiyama, K Ishigaki, M Kanai, J Hosoe… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To understand the genetics of type 2 diabetes in people of Japanese ancestry, we
conducted A meta-analysis of four genome-wide association studies (GWAS; 36,614 cases …