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Biomedical Genomics Series Web Focus - Obesity and Diabetes
The Journal of Human Genetics is delighted to present the third Web Focus in the Series on Biomedical Genomics, highlighting the topic of Obesity and Diabetes. This Focus includes the latest research on obesity and diabetes, such as a report on the different variation of genes, common variants or polymorphisms that are associated with type-2 diabetes, comparative association studies between specific gene variants or polymorphisms with type-2 diabetes and obesity in different populations.
Original Articles
Impact of common type 2 diabetes risk gene variants on future type 2 diabetes in the non-diabetic population in Korea FREE
Se Eun Park, Won Young Lee, Ki Won Oh, Ki Hyun Baek, Kun Ho Yoon, Moo Il Kang, Ho Young Son and Won Chul Lee
J Hum Genet 57: 265-268; advance online publication, March 1, 2012; doi:10.1038/jhg.2012.16
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in JAZF1 and BCL11A gene are nominally associated with type 2 diabetes in African-American families from the GENNID study FREE
Kurt A Langberg, Lijun Ma, Neeraj K Sharma, Craig L Hanis, Steven C Elbein, Sandra J Hasstedt and Swapan K Das for the American Diabetes Association GENNID Study Group
J Hum Genet 57: 57-61; advance online publication, November 24, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.133
Genetic variations in the CYP17A1 and NT5C2 genes are associated with a reduction in visceral and subcutaneous fat areas in Japanese women FREE
Kikuko Hotta, Aya Kitamoto, Takuya Kitamoto, Seiho Mizusawa, Hajime Teranishi, Tomoaki Matsuo, Yoshio Nakata, Hideyuki Hyogo, Hidenori Ochi, Takahiro Nakamura, Seika Kamohara, Nobuyuki Miyatake, Kazuaki Kotani, Ryoya Komatsu, Naoto Itoh, Ikuo Mineo, Jun Wada, Masato Yoneda, Atsushi Nakajima, Tohru Funahashi, Shigeru Miyazaki, Katsuto Tokunaga, Hiroaki Masuzaki, Takato Ueno, Kazuaki Chayama, Kazuyuki Hamaguchi, Kentaro Yamada, Toshiaki Hanafusa, Shinichi Oikawa, Hironobu Yoshimatsu, Toshiie Sakata, Kiyoji Tanaka, Yuji Matsuzawa, Kazuwa Nakao and Akihiro Sekine
J Hum Genet 57: 46-51; advance online publication, November 10, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.127
Genome-wide association study of copy number variation identified gremlin1 as a candidate gene for lean body mass FREE
Rong Hai, Yu-Fang Pei, Hui Shen, Lei Zhang, Xiao-Gang Liu, Yong Lin, Shu Ran, Feng Pan, Li-Jun Tan, Shu-Feng Lei, Tie-Lin Yang, Yan Zhang, Xue-Zhen Zhu, Lan-Juan Zhao and Hong-Wen Deng
J Hum Genet 57: 33-37; advance online publication, November 3, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.125
Common variants of FTO and the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes in Indians FREE
Ganesh Chauhan, Rubina Tabassum, Anubha Mahajan, Om Prakash Dwivedi, Yuvaraj Mahendran, Ismeet Kaur, Shubhanchi Nigam, Himanshu Dubey, Binuja Varma, Sri Venkata Madhu, Sandeep K Mathur, Saurabh Ghosh, Nikhil Tandon and Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
J Hum Genet 56: 720-726; advance online publication, August 4, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.87
Association of variants in genes involved in pancreatic β-cell development and function with type 2 diabetes in North Indians FREE
Sreenivas Chavali, Anubha Mahajan, Rubina Tabassum, Om Prakash Dwivedi, Ganesh Chauhan, Saurabh Ghosh, Nikhil Tandon and Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
J Hum Genet 56: 695-700; advance online publication, August 4, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2010.83
Association of variations in the FTO, SCG3 and MTMR9 genes with metabolic syndrome in a Japanese population FREE
Kikuko Hotta, Takuya Kitamoto, Aya Kitamoto, Seiho Mizusawa, Tomoaki Matsuo, Yoshio Nakata, Seika Kamohara, Nobuyuki Miyatake, Kazuaki Kotani, Ryoya Komatsu, Naoto Itoh, Ikuo Mineo, Jun Wada, Masato Yoneda, Atsushi Nakajima, Tohru Funahashi, Shigeru Miyazaki, Katsuto Tokunaga, Hiroaki Masuzaki, Takato Ueno, Kazuyuki Hamaguchi, Kiyoji Tanaka, Kentaro Yamada, Toshiaki Hanafusa, Shinichi Oikawa, Hironobu Yoshimatsu, Toshiie Sakata, Yuji Matsuzawa, Kazuwa Nakao and Akihiro Sekine
J Hum Genet 56: 647-651; advance online publication, July 28, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.74
Computed tomography analysis of the association between the SH2B1 rs7498665 single-nucleotide polymorphism and visceral fat area FREE
Kikuko Hotta, Takuya Kitamoto, Aya Kitamoto, Seiho Mizusawa, Tomoaki Matsuo, Yoshio Nakata, Hideyuki Hyogo, Hidenori Ochi, Seika Kamohara, Nobuyuki Miyatake, Kazuaki Kotani, Ryoya Komatsu, Naoto Itoh, Ikuo Mineo, Jun Wada, Masato Yoneda, Atsushi Nakajima, Tohru Funahashi, Shigeru Miyazaki, Katsuto Tokunaga, Hiroaki Masuzaki, Takato Ueno, Kazuaki Chayama, Kazuyuki Hamaguchi, Kentaro Yamada, Toshiaki Hanafusa, Shinichi Oikawa, Hironobu Yoshimatsu, Toshiie Sakata, Kiyoji Tanaka, Yuji Matsuzawa, Kazuwa Nakao and Akihiro Sekine
J Hum Genet 56: 716-719; advance online publication, July 28, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.86
Pleiotropy of type 2 diabetes with obesity FREE
Sandra J Hasstedt, Craig L Hanis, Swapan K Das and Steven C Elbein, the American Diabetes Association GENNID Study Group
J Hum Genet 56: 491-495; advance online publication, April 28, 2011; doi:10.1038/jhg.2011.46
The ENPP1 K121Q polymorphism is not associated with type 2 diabetes or obesity in the Chinese Han population FREE
Teng Zhao, Zhe Liu, Di Zhang, Yun Liu, Yifeng Yang, Daizhan Zhou, Zhuo Chen, Lan Yu, Zuofeng Zhang, Guoyin Feng, Lin He and He Xu
J Hum Genet 56: 12-16; advance online publication, October 28, 2010; doi:10.1038/jhg.2010.124
Variations in/nearby genes coding for JAZF1, TSPAN8/LGR5 and HHEX-IDE and risk of type 2 diabetes in Han Chinese FREE
Dai-zhan Zhou, Yun Liu, Di Zhang, Si-min Liu, Lan Yu, Yi-feng Yang, Teng Zhao, Zhuo Chen, Meng-yuan Kan, Zuo-feng Zhang, Guo-yin Feng, He Xu and Lin He
J Hum Genet 55: 810-815; advance online publication, October 7, 2010; doi:10.1038/jhg.2010.117
The GCKR rs780094 polymorphism is associated with susceptibility of type 2 diabetes, reduced fasting plasma glucose levels, increased triglycerides levels and lower HOMA-IR in Japanese population FREE
Hiroshi Onuma, Yasuharu Tabara, Ryuichi Kawamoto, Ikki Shimizu, Ryoichi Kawamura, Yasunori Takata, Wataru Nishida, Jun Ohashi, Tetsuro Miki, Katsuhiko Kohara, Hideichi Makino and Haruhiko Osawa
J Hum Genet 55: 600-604; advance online publication, June 24, 2010; doi:10.1038/jhg.2010.75
Short Communications
No evidence for GNAS copy number variants in patients with features of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy and abnormal platelet Gs activity FREE
Benedetta Izzi, Francis de Zegher, Inge Francois, Jurgen del Favero, Dirk Goossens, Christine Wittevrongel, Chantal Thys, Chris Van Geet and Kathleen Freson
J Hum Genet 57: 277-279; advance online publication, January 26, 2012; doi:10.1038/jhg.2012.1
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