Search Results - "Badreddine, Alaa"
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Functional genetics reveals the contribution of delta opioid receptor to type 2 diabetes and beta-cell function
Published in Nature communications (05-08-2024)“…Functional genetics has identified drug targets for metabolic disorders. Opioid use impacts metabolic homeostasis, although mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we…”
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Compound genetic etiology in a patient with a syndrome including diabetes, intellectual deficiency and distichiasis
Published in Orphanet journal of rare diseases (28-02-2022)“…We studied a young woman with atypical diabetes associated with mild intellectual disability, lymphedema distichiasis syndrome (LDS) and polymalformative…”
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Pharmacological HDAC inhibition impairs pancreatic β-cell function through an epigenome-wide reprogramming
Published in iScience (21-07-2023)“…Histone deacetylases enzymes (HDACs) are chromatin modifiers that regulate gene expression through deacetylation of lysine residues within specific histone and…”
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Rare Variant Analysis of Obesity-Associated Genes in Young Adults With Severe Obesity From a Consanguineous Population of Pakistan
Published in Diabetes (New York, N.Y.) (01-04-2022)“…Recent advances in genetic analysis have significantly helped in progressively attenuating the heritability gap of obesity and have brought into focus…”
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Genetic Causes of Severe Childhood Obesity: A Remarkably High Prevalence in an Inbred Population of Pakistan
Published in Diabetes (New York, N.Y.) (01-07-2020)“…Monogenic forms of obesity have been identified in ≤10% of severely obese European patients. However, the overall spectrum of deleterious variants (point…”
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Biallelic Mutations in P4HTM Cause Syndromic Obesity
Published in Diabetes (New York, N.Y.) (01-09-2023)“…We previously demonstrated that 50% of children with obesity from consanguineous families from Pakistan carry pathogenic variants in known monogenic obesity…”
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Dominant negative mutation in oxalate transporter SLC26A6 associated with enteric hyperoxaluria and nephrolithiasis
Published in Journal of medical genetics (01-11-2022)“…Nephrolithiasis (NL) is a complex multifactorial disease affecting up to 10%-20% of the human population and causing a significant burden on public health…”
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Contribution of heterozygous PCSK1 variants to obesity and implications for precision medicine: a case-control study
Published in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology (01-03-2023)“…Rare biallelic pathogenic mutations in PCSK1 (encoding proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 1 [PC1/3]) cause early-onset obesity associated with various…”
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Heterozygous pathogenic variants in POMC are not responsible for monogenic obesity: Implication for MC4R agonist use
Published in Genetics in medicine (01-07-2023)“…Recessive deficiency of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) causes childhood-onset severe obesity. Cases can now benefit from the melanocortin 4 receptor agonist…”
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Compound genetic etiology in a patient with a syndrome including diabetes, intellectual deficiency and distichiasis
Published in Orphanet journal of rare diseases (28-02-2022)“…Abstract Background We studied a young woman with atypical diabetes associated with mild intellectual disability, lymphedema distichiasis syndrome (LDS) and…”
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Pharmacological HDAC inhibition impairs pancreatic β-cell function through an epigenome-wide reprogramming
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Pharmacological HDAC inhibition impairs pancreatic β-cell function through an epigenome-wide reprogramming
Published in iScience (01-07-2023)“…Histone deacetylases enzymes (HDACs) are chromatin modifiers that regulate gene expression through deacetylation of lysine residues within specific histone and…”
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