Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) significantly impacts individuals due to its prevalence and negative effect on quality of life. Current genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have only identified a small number of crucial single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), not fully elucidating IBS's pathogenesis.
Objective: To identify genomic loci at which common genetic variation influences IBS susceptibility.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder for which current treatments are limited and drug development costs are prohibitive. Identifying drug targets for ASD is crucial for the development of targeted therapies. Summary-level data of expression quantitative trait loci obtained from GTEx, protein quantitative trait loci data from the ROSMAP project, and two ASD genome-wide association studies datasets were utilized for discovery and replication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is commonly associated with extraintestinal complications, including autoimmune liver disease. The co-occurrence of IBD and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) has been increasingly observed, but the underlying relationship between these conditions remains unclear.
Methods: Using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we investigated the causal effects between PBC and IBD, including Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).
Background: Exendin-4 (Ex4) is a promising drug for diabetes mellitus with a half-life of 2.4 h in human bodies. Besides, the Ex4 formulations currently employed in the clinic or under development have problems pertaining to stability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Psychiatric disorders have serious harm to individuals' lives with high disease burden. Observational studies reported inconsistent associations between periodontitis and some psychiatric disorders, and the causal correlations between them remain unknown.
Objective: This study aims to explore the causal associations between periodontitis and psychiatric disorders.
Gastric cancer (GC) is a multifactorial progressive disease with high mortality and heterogeneous prognosis. Effective prognostic biomarkers for GC were critically needed. Hippo signaling pathway is one of the critical mechanisms regulating the occurrence and development of GC, and has potential clinical application value for the prognosis and treatment of GC patients.
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