Trends in insulin resistance: insights into mechanisms and therapeutic strategy

M Li, X Chi, Y Wang, S Setrerrahmane… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The centenary of insulin discovery represents an important opportunity to transform diabetes
from a fatal diagnosis into a medically manageable chronic condition. Insulin is a key …

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 …

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 …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis

K Ishigaki, S Sakaue, C Terao, Y Luo, K Sonehara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a highly heritable complex disease with unknown etiology. Multi-
ancestry genetic research of RA promises to improve power to detect genetic signals, fine …

The integrative biology of type 2 diabetes

M Roden, GI Shulman - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are the most frequent metabolic disorders, but their causes
remain largely unclear. Insulin resistance, the common underlying abnormality, results from …

Glucose transporters in adipose tissue, liver, and skeletal muscle in metabolic health and disease

A Chadt, H Al-Hasani - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology, 2020 - Springer
A family of facilitative glucose transporters (GLUTs) is involved in regulating tissue-specific
glucose uptake and metabolism in the liver, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue to ensure …

Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies

V Tam, N Patel, M Turcotte, Y Bossé, G Paré… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the
genomes of many individuals to identify genotype–phenotype associations. GWAS have …

A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …

Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

GL Wojcik, M Graff, KK Nishimura, R Tao, J Haessler… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have laid the foundation for investigations into
the biology of complex traits, drug development and clinical guidelines. However, the …

Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

K Ishigaki, M Akiyama, M Kanai, A Takahashi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The overwhelming majority of participants in current genetic studies are of European
ancestry. To elucidate disease biology in the East Asian population, we conducted a …