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Jan 14, 2025 | nature.com | Lachlan Gilchrist |Thomas P. Spargo |Rebecca Green |David Howard |Jackson G. Thorp |Brett N. Adey | +25 more

AbstractDepression is a risk factor for the later development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but evidence for the genetic relationship is mixed. Assessing depression symptom-specific genetic associations may better clarify this relationship.

Nov 24, 2023 | mdpi.com | Vidya Krishnan |Sulev Kõks

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Nov 2, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Sun Yat-sen |Giacomina Brunetti |Sulev Kõks

1 IntroductionOsteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare, hereditary, clinically heterogeneous, primary bone dysplasia characterized by increased bone fragility, low bone mass, and susceptibility to bone fractures. Other clinical manifestations include short stature, blue scleral hue, dentinogenesis imperfecta, progressive post-pubertal hearing loss, ligamentous laxity, and so on (1–3).

Sep 4, 2023 | mdpi.com | Sulev Kõks

Open AccessReview by 1,2 1 Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, 8 Verdun Street, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia 2 Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia Biomolecules 2023, 13(9), 1346; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13091346 (registering DOI) Received: 8 August 2023 / Revised: 30 August 2023 / Accepted: 2 September 2023 / Published: 4 September 2023 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in...

Mar 14, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Thangavel Alphonse |Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia |Sulev Kõks |Edith Hofer

1 IntroductionObesity has now become a global epidemic with an alarmingly increasing rate of incidence (1). The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016 and is expected to double in the next 25 years (2, 3). Different ethnicities exhibit different rates of obesity. This is evident in the different rates of obesity in ethnicities such as those of Southeast Asians, Arabs, and South Asians.