Circulating leukocyte telomere length is highly heritable among families of Arab descent

Autor: Al-Attas Omar S, Al-Daghri Nasser M, Alokail Majed S, Alkharfy Khalid M, Alfadda Assim A, McTernan Philip, Gibson Greg C, Sabico Shaun B, Chrousos George P

Publikováno v: BMC Medical Genetics, Vol 13, Iss 1, p 38 (2012)

Abstract Background Telomere length, an indicator of ageing and longevity, has been correlated with several biomarkers of cardiometabolic disease in both Arab children and adults. It is not known, however, whether or not telomere length is a highly c

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Parent-Offspring Transmission of Adipocytokine Levels and Their Associations with Metabolic Traits

Autor: Al-Daghri, Nasser M. Al-Attas, Omar S. Alokail, Majed S. and Alkharfy, Khalid M. Yakout, Sobhy M. Sabico, Shaun B. and Gibson, Greg C. Chrousos, George P. Kumar, Sudhesh

Adipose tissue secreted cytokines (adipocytokines) have significant effects on the physiology and pathology of human metabolism relevant to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. We determined the relationship of the pattern of these circulating hormon

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https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/uoadl:3149238

TIGAR-V2: Efficient TWAS tool with nonparametric Bayesian eQTL weights of 49 tissue types from GTEx V8.

Autor: Parrish RL; Center for Computational and Quantitative Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA., Gibson GC; School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA., Epstein MP; Center for Computational and Quantitative Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA., Yang J; Center for Computational and Quantitative Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

Publikováno v: HGG advances [HGG Adv] 2021 Nov 04; Vol. 3 (1), pp. 100068. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 04 (Print Publication: 2022).