MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

Exome Sequencing Identifies Genes and Gene Sets Contributing to Severe Childhood Obesity, Linking PHIP Variants to Repressed POMC Transcription.

Marenne G, Hendricks AE, Perdikari A, Bounds R, Payne F, Keogh JM, Lelliott CJ, Henning E, Pathan S, Ashford S, Bochukova EG, Mistry V, Daly A, Hayward C, INTERVAL, UK10K Consortium, Wareham NJ, O'Rahilly S, Langenberg C, Wheeler E, Zeggini E, Farooqi IS, and Barroso I

Cell metabolism. Dec 2019

(DOI : 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.05.007)

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Detailed investigation of the role of common and low-frequency WFS1 variants in type 2 diabetes risk.

Fawcett KA, Wheeler E, Morris AP, Ricketts SL, Hallmans G, Rolandsson O, Daly A, Wasson J, Permutt A, Hattersley AT, Glaser B, Franks PW, McCarthy MI, Wareham NJ, Sandhu MS, and Barroso I

Diabetes. Dec 2009

(DOI : 10.2337/db09-0920)

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Evaluating the role of LPIN1 variation in insulin resistance, body weight, and human lipodystrophy in U.K. Populations.

Fawcett KA, Grimsey N, Loos RJ, Wheeler E, Daly A, Soos M, Semple R, Syddall H, Cooper C, Siniossoglou S, O'Rahilly S, Wareham NJ, and Barroso I

Diabetes. Jul 2008

(DOI : 10.2337/db08-0422)

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Common variants in WFS1 confer risk of type 2 diabetes.

Sandhu MS, Weedon MN, Fawcett KA, Wasson J, Debenham SL, Daly A, Lango H, Frayling TM, Neumann RJ, Sherva R, Blech I, Pharoah PD, Palmer CN, Kimber C, Tavendale R, Morris AD, McCarthy MI, Walker M, Hitman G, Glaser B, Permutt MA, Hattersley AT, Wareham NJ, and Barroso I

Nature genetics. Feb 2007

(DOI : 10.1038/ng2067)

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Adiponectin receptor genes: mutation screening in syndromes of insulin resistance and association studies for type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits in UK populations.

Collins SC, Luan J, Thompson AJ, Daly A, Semple RK, O'Rahilly S, Wareham NJ, and Barroso I

Diabetologia. Jul 2006

(DOI : 10.1007/s00125-006-0534-7)

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