A decade of genome-wide association studies for coronary artery disease: the challenges ahead

J Erdmann, T Kessler, L Munoz Venegas… - Cardiovascular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we summarize current knowledge on the genetics of coronary artery disease,
based on 10 years of genome-wide association studies. The discoveries began with …

Applications and limitations of mouse models for understanding human atherosclerosis

M Von Scheidt, Y Zhao, Z Kurt, C Pan, L Zeng, X Yang… - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Most of the biological understanding of mechanisms underlying coronary artery disease
(CAD) derives from studies of mouse models. The identification of multiple CAD loci and …

Cell-autonomous regulation of complement C3 by factor H limits macrophage efferocytosis and exacerbates atherosclerosis

MG Kiss, N Papac-Miličević, F Porsch, D Tsiantoulas… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Complement factor H (CFH) negatively regulates consumption of complement component 3
(C3), thereby restricting complement activation. Genetic variants in CFH predispose to …

Integration of multi-omics data from mouse diversity panel highlights mitochondrial dysfunction in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

KC Krishnan, Z Kurt, R Barrere-Cain, S Sabir, A Das… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
The etiology of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most common form of chronic
liver disease, is poorly understood. To understand the causal mechanisms underlying …

Systems genetics approaches for understanding complex traits with relevance for human disease

H Allayee, CR Farber, MM Seldin, EG Williams… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Quantitative traits are often complex because of the contribution of many loci, with further
complexity added by environmental factors. In medical research, systems genetics is a …

Genetics: implications for prevention and management of coronary artery disease

TL Assimes, R Roberts - Journal of the American College of cardiology, 2016 - jacc.org
An exciting new era has dawned for the prevention and management of coronary artery
disease (CAD) utilizing genetic risk variants. The recent identification of over 60 …

The novel coronary artery disease risk gene JCAD/KIAA1462 promotes endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis

S Xu, Y Xu, P Liu, S Zhang, H Liu, S Slavin… - European heart …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aims Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified that the JCAD locus
is associated with risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarction (MI) …

Tissue-specific pathways and networks underlying sexual dimorphism in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Z Kurt, R Barrere-Cain, J LaGuardia… - Biology of sex …, 2018 - Springer
Background Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) encompasses benign steatosis and
more severe conditions such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cirrhosis, and liver …