Lawrence Phillips

1 month ago | nature.com | Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez |Elizabeth Litkowski |Hyunkyung Kim |Ching-Ti Liu |Chenglong Yu |John McNeil | +12 more

AbstractElevated fasting insulin levels (FI), indicative of altered insulin secretion and sensitivity, may precede type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease onset. In this study, we group FI-associated genetic variants based on their genetic and phenotypic similarities and identify seven clusters with distinct mechanisms contributing to elevated FI levels.

2 months ago | nature.com | Danielle Rasooly |Claudia Giambartolomei |Gina M. Peloso |Maik Pietzner |Eric Farber-Eger |Lawrence Phillips | +4 more

AbstractHeart failure (HF) has limited therapeutic options. In this study, we differentiated the pathophysiological underpinnings of the HF subtypes—HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)—and uncovered subtype-specific therapeutic strategies. We investigated the causal roles of the human proteome and transcriptome using Mendelian randomization on more than 420,000 participants from the Million Veteran Program (27,799 HFrEF and 27,579 HFpEF cases).