The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biology

RJF Loos, GSH Yeo - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The prevalence of obesity has tripled over the past four decades, imposing an enormous
burden on people's health. Polygenic (or common) obesity and rare, severe, early-onset …

The aetiology and molecular landscape of insulin resistance

DE James, J Stöckli, MJ Birnbaum - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Insulin resistance, defined as a defect in insulin-mediated control of glucose metabolism in
tissues—prominently in muscle, fat and liver—is one of the earliest manifestations of a …

Challenges and opportunities for develo** more generalizable polygenic risk scores

Y Wang, K Tsuo, M Kanai, BM Neale… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate an individual's genetic likelihood of complex traits and
diseases by aggregating information across multiple genetic variants identified from genome …

Precision medicine in diabetes: a consensus report from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

WK Chung, K Erion, JC Florez, AT Hattersley… - Diabetes …, 2020 - diabetesjournals.org
The convergence of advances in medical science, human biology, data science, and
technology has enabled the generation of new insights into the phenotype known as …

[HTML][HTML] Humans against obesity: who will win?

B Caballero - Advances in nutrition, 2019 - Elsevier
The global obesity epidemic continues its relentless advance, currently affecting> 2 billion
people. This paper explores alternative ways to assess the potential disease impact of the …

Emotional eating and obesity in adults: the role of depression, sleep and genes

H Konttinen - Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2020 - cambridge.org
Stress and other negative emotions, such as depression and anxiety, can lead to both
decreased and increased food intake. The term 'emotional eating'has been widely used to …

Role of inactivity in chronic diseases: evolutionary insight and pathophysiological mechanisms

FW Booth, CK Roberts, JP Thyfault… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
This review proposes that physical inactivity could be considered a behavior selected by
evolution for resting, and also selected to be reinforcing in life-threatening situations in …

Energy balance and obesity: what are the main drivers?

I Romieu, L Dossus, S Barquera, HM Blottière… - Cancer causes & …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this paper is to review the evidence of the association between energy
balance and obesity. Methods In December 2015, the International Agency for Research on …

Association of genetic risk, lifestyle, and their interaction with obesity and obesity-related morbidities

MS Kim, I Shim, AC Fahed, R Do, WY Park… - Cell metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
The extent to which modifiable lifestyle factors offset the determined genetic risk of obesity
and obesity-related morbidities remains unknown. We explored how the interaction between …

Genetics of obesity: what genetic association studies have taught us about the biology of obesity and its complications

MO Goodarzi - The lancet Diabetes & endocrinology, 2018 - thelancet.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, and other adiposity
traits have identified more than 300 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Although …