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Genomes and Genes
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New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formationChristian Gieger
Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstadter Landstr 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Nature 480:201-8. 2011..Taken together, our findings advance understanding of novel gene functions controlling fate-determining events during megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation, providing a new example of successful translation of GWAS to function...
Novel SCARB2 mutation in action myoclonus-renal failure syndrome and evaluation of SCARB2 mutations in isolated AMRF featuresFranziska Hopfner
Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
BMC Neurol 11:134. 2011..To test the hypothesis whether isolated appearance of individual AMRF syndrome features could be related to heterozygote SCARB2 mutations, we screened for SCARB2 mutations in unrelated patients showing isolated AMRF features...
Population-genetic comparison of the Sorbian isolate population in Germany with the German KORA population using genome-wide SNP arraysArnd Gross
Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Haertelstrasse 16 18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
BMC Genet 12:67. 2011..We also aim to separate effects of over-sampling of families in the Sorbs sample from effects of genetic isolation and compare the power of genetic association studies between the samples...
Human gene expression sensitivity according to large scale meta-analysisPei Hao
Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, PR China
BMC Bioinformatics 10:S56. 2009..Systematical study of this concept is required because of its important implications in microarray analysis etc. J.H. Ohn et al. first studied this gene property with yeast transcriptional profiling data...
CONAN: copy number variation analysis software for genome-wide association studiesLukas Forer
Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
BMC Bioinformatics 11:318. 2010....
PSEA: Phenotype Set Enrichment Analysis--a new method for analysis of multiple phenotypesJanina S Ried
Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, Neuherberg, Germany
Genet Epidemiol 36:244-52. 2012..Its flexible design enables both the use of prior knowledge and the generation of new knowledge on connection of multiple phenotypes. A software program for PSEA based on GWAS results is available upon request...
Body fat free mass is associated with the serum metabolite profile in a population-based studyCarolin Jourdan
Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
PLoS ONE 7:e40009. 2012..To characterise the influence of the fat free mass on the metabolite profile in serum samples from participants of the population-based KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg) S4 study...
Mining the unknown: a systems approach to metabolite identification combining genetic and metabolic informationJan Krumsiek
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Neuherberg, Germany
PLoS Genet 8:e1003005. 2012..Our approach is generic in nature and can be directly transferred to metabolomics data from different experimental platforms...
Human serum metabolic profiles are age dependentZhonghao Yu
Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Aging Cell 11:960-7. 2012..The use of metabolomics will increase our understanding of aging networks and may lead to discoveries that help enhance healthy aging...
On the hypothesis-free testing of metabolite ratios in genome-wide and metabolome-wide association studiesAnn Kristin Petersen
Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Neuherberg, Germany
BMC Bioinformatics 13:120. 2012..So far, only a rule of thumb was applied to determine the significance of the p-gain...
A genome-wide perspective of genetic variation in human metabolismThomas Illig
Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Nat Genet 42:137-41. 2010..5 x 10(-179). These loci explained 5.6%-36.3% of the observed variance in metabolite concentrations. For several loci, associations with clinically relevant parameters have been reported previously...
Genetic associations with lipoprotein subfractions provide information on their biological natureAnn Kristin Petersen
Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
Hum Mol Genet 21:1433-43. 2012..Future clinical studies are now needed to investigate their biomedical relevance...
Novel biomarkers for pre-diabetes identified by metabolomicsRui Wang-Sattler
Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Neuherberg, Germany
Mol Syst Biol 8:615. 2012..The expression levels of these enzymes correlate with changes in the metabolite concentrations linked to diabetes. Our results may help developing novel strategies to prevent T2D...
Genetic variation in metabolic phenotypes: study designs and applicationsKarsten Suhre
1 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City, Qatar Foundation, P O Box 24144, Doha, Qatar 2 Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Nat Rev Genet 13:759-69. 2012..We discuss such design considerations and applications in this Review...
Metabolic footprint of diabetes: a multiplatform metabolomics study in an epidemiological settingKarsten Suhre
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
PLoS ONE 5:e13953. 2010....
Genetics meets metabolomics: a genome-wide association study of metabolite profiles in human serumChristian Gieger
Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
PLoS Genet 4:e1000282. 2008..These genetically determined metabotypes may subscribe the risk for a certain medical phenotype, the response to a given drug treatment, or the reaction to a nutritional intervention or environmental challenge...
A genome-wide association study of metabolic traits in human urineKarsten Suhre
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Nat Genet 43:565-9. 2011..Moreover, we identify rs37369 in AGXT2 as the genetic basis of hyper-β-aminoisobutyric aciduria...
Impact of common regulatory single-nucleotide variants on gene expression profiles in whole bloodDivya Mehta
Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Eur J Hum Genet 21:48-54. 2013..Our data demonstrate that eQTLs in whole blood are highly robust and reproducible across studies and highlight the relevance of whole-blood eQTL mapping in prioritization of GWAS candidate genes in humans...
Genome-wide association analysis of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the population-based KORA study sheds new light on intergenic regionsIris M Heid
Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center, Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Circ Cardiovasc Genet 1:10-20. 2008..We aimed to identify gene regions that influence HDLC levels by a genome-wide association analysis in the population-based KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg) study...
Discovery of sexual dimorphisms in metabolic and genetic biomarkersKirstin Mittelstrass
Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
PLoS Genet 7:e1002215. 2011..Our study provides new important insights into sex-specific differences of cell regulatory processes and underscores that studies should consider sex-specific effects in design and interpretation...
Meta-analysis of two genome-wide association studies identifies four genetic loci associated with thyroid functionRajesh Rawal
Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Mu nchen, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Hum Mol Genet 21:3275-82. 2012..Together, these four quantitative trait loci accounted for ∼3.3% of the variance in TSH serum levels. These results contribute to our understanding of genetic factors and physiological mechanisms mediating thyroid function...
Eight genetic loci associated with variation in lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 mass and activity and coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from five community-based studiesHarald Grallert
Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
Eur Heart J 33:238-51. 2012..We searched for genetic loci related to Lp-PLA2 mass or activity by a genome-wide association study as part of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium...
Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical researchKarsten Suhre
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Nature 477:54-60. 2011..The study advances our knowledge of the genetic basis of metabolic individuality in humans and generates many new hypotheses for biomedical and pharmaceutical research...
A genome-wide association study identifies three loci associated with mean platelet volumeChrista Meisinger
Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Am J Hum Genet 84:66-71. 2009..These findings may not only enhance our understanding of platelet activation and function, but may also provide a focus for several novel research avenues...
Joint analysis of individual participants' data from 17 studies on the association of the IL6 variant -174G>C with circulating glucose levels, interleukin-6 levels, and body mass indexCornelia Huth
Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Neuherberg, Germany
Ann Med 41:128-38. 2009..Several studies have investigated associations between the -174G>C single nucleotide polymorphism (rs1800795) of the IL6 gene and phenotypes related to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) but presented inconsistent results...
