• Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants 

      Aragam, Krishna G.; Jiang, Tao; Goel, Anuj; Kanoni, Stavroula; Wolford, Brooke N.; Atri, Deepak S.; Weeks, Elle M.; Wang, Minxian; Hindy, George; Zhou, Wei; Grace, Christopher; Roselli, Carolina; Marston, Nicholas A.; Kamanu, Frederick K.; Surakka, Ida; Venegas, Loreto Muñoz; Sherliker, Paul; Koyama, Satoshi; Ishigaki, Kazuyoshi; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brown, Michael R.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; de Vries, Paul S.; Giannakopoulou, Olga; Giardoglou, Panagiota; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Güldener, Ulrich; Haider, Syed M. Ijlal; Helgadottir, Anna; Ibrahim, Maysson; Kastrati, Adnan; Kessler, Thorsten; Kyriakou, Theodosios; Konopka, Tomasz; Li, Ling; Ma, Lijiang; Meitinger, Thomas; Mucha, Sören; Munz, Matthias; Murgia, Federico; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Nöthen, Markus M.; Pang, Shichao; Reinberger, Tobias; Schnitzler, Gavin; Smedley, Damian; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; von Scheidt, Moritz; Ulirsch, Jacob C.; Danesh, John; Arnar, David O.; Burtt, Noël P.; Costanzo, Maria C.; Flannick, Jason; Ito, Kaoru; Jang, Dong-Keun; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Khera, Amit V.; Komuro, Issei; Kullo, Iftikhar J.; Lotta, Luca A.; Nelson, Christopher P.; Roberts, Robert; Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Webb, Thomas R.; Baras, Aris; Björkegren, Johan L. M.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Dedoussis, George; Holm, Hilma; Hveem, Kristian; Melander, Olle; Morrison, Alanna C.; Orho-Melander, Marju; Rallidis, Loukianos S.; Ruusalepp, Arno; Sabatine, Marc S.; Stefansson, Kari; Zalloua, Pierre; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Farrall, Martin; Danesh, John; Ruff, Christian T.; Finucane, Hilary K.; Hopewell, Jemma C.; Clarke, Robert; Gupta, Rajat M.; Erdmann, Jeanette; Samani, Nilesh J.; Schunkert, Heribert; Watkins, Hugh; Willer, Cristen J.; Deloukas, Panos; Kathiresan, Sekar; Butterworth, Adam S.; de Vries, Paul S.; von Scheidt, Moritz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The discovery of genetic loci associated with complex diseases has outpaced the elucidation of mechanisms of disease pathogenesis. Here we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for coronary artery disease (CAD) ...
    • Genetic inactivation of ANGPTL4 improves glucose homeostasis and is associated with reduced risk of diabetes 

      Gusarova, Viktoria; O'Dushlaine, Colm; Teslovich, Tanya M.; Benotti, Peter N.; Mirshahi, Tooraj; Gottesman, Omri; van Hout, Cristopher V.; Murray, Michael F.; Mahajan, Anubha; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Fritsche, Lars; Wulff, Anders Berg; Gudbjartsson, Daníel Fannar; Sjögren, Marketa; Emdin, Connor A.; Scott, Robert A.; Lee, Wen-Jane; Small, Aeron; Kwee, Lydia C.; Dwivedi, Om Prakash; Prasad, Rashmi B.; Bruse, Shannon; Lopez, Alexander E.; Penn, John; Marcketta, Anthony; Leader, Joseph B.; Still, Christopher D.; Kirchner, H. Lester; Mirshahi, Uyenlinh L.; Wardeh, Amr H.; Hartle, Cassandra M.; Habegger, Lukas; Fetterolf, Samantha N.; Tusie-Luna, Teresa; Morris, Andrew P.; Holm, Hilma; Steinthorsdóttir, Valgerdur; Sulem, Patrick; Thorsteinsdóttir, Unnur; Rotter, Jerome I.; Chuang, Lee-Ming; Damrauer, Scott; Birtwell, David; Brummett, Chad M.; Khera, Amit V.; Natarajan, Pradeep; Orho-Melander, Marju; Flannick, Jason; Lotta, Luca A.; Willer, Cristen J.; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Ledbetter, David H.; Murphy, Andrew J.; Borecki, Ingrid B.; Reid, Jeffrey G.; Overton, John D.; Hansson, Ola; Groop, Leif; Shah, Svati H.; Kraus, William E.; Rader, Daniel J.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Hveem, Kristian; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Kathiresan, Sekar; Melander, Olle; Stefansson, Kari; Nordestgaard, Børge G.; Tybjærg-Hansen, Anne; Abecasis, Goncalo; Altshuler, David; Florez, Jose C.; Boehnke, Michael; McCarthy, Mark I.; Yancopoulos, George D.; Carey, David J.; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Baras, Aris; Dewey, Frederick E.; Gromada, Jesper (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) is an endogenous inhibitor of lipoprotein lipase that modulates lipid levels, coronary atherosclerosis risk, and nutrient partitioning. We hypothesize that loss of ANGPTL4 function might improve ...