Metabolic Disease

News on research and diagnostics for metabolic disorders and metabolic diseases.

Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes Come With Altered Gut Microbiomes

A new analysis highlighted a decrease in the abundance of butyrate-producing bacteria among individuals with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.

Exome Analysis of Southwestern American Indians Highlights Metabolic Disease-Linked Variants

A Regeneron-led team identified four variants that affect LDL cholesterol levels and are much more prevalent among Southwestern American Indians.

Type 2 Diabetes Associated With Altered Daily Gut Microbe Oscillations

Researchers found that diurnal gut microbe fluctuations are disrupted in individuals with type 2 diabetes, leading to a bacterial signature for risk profiling.

RenalytixAI Receives Approval From New York State to Offer Kidney Test

KidneyIntelX can be used to report risk assessment results for fast-progressing kidney disease and future kidney failure for patients with chronic kidney disease.

DiscernDx Acquires Luminist Labs

Luminist Labs is developing diagnostic technology for liver disease, which DiscernDx will integrate into its precision medicine platform.

Apr 28, 2020

RenalytixAI, Mount Sinai Launch Study to Predict COVID-19 Kidney Complications

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Jan 21, 2020

Urinary Metabolite GWAS Leads to Risk Variants, Potential Markers of Kidney Disease

Jan 08, 2020

Obesity Polygenic Risk Score Relatively Poor Predictor of Midlife BMI in Longitudinal Study

Dec 02, 2019

Longitudinal Stool Sampling Study Points to Virome Shifts in Children With Islet Autoimmunity

Sep 20, 2019

GWAS in Diabetes Patients Uncovers Risk Loci for Kidney Disease

Sep 09, 2019

Visceral Adiposity GWAS Identifies Hundreds of Genetic Loci

Sep 04, 2019

Body Mass Index Influenced by Different Genetic Factors During Infancy, Later in Life

Aug 02, 2019

Genetic Risk of Obesity Mitigated by Different Exercise Types, Taiwanese Study Finds

Jul 31, 2019

Finnish Exomes Yield New Trait, Disease Associations Involving Rare, Deleterious Variants

Jul 29, 2019

Metabolic Syndrome, Early-Onset Coronary Artery Disease Linked to Mutations in CELA2A

Jul 24, 2019

GX Sciences to Offer Patia Type 2 Diabetes Risk Test in US

Jul 19, 2019

New Type 2 Diabetes Locus Identified in GWAS of African Populations

Jul 18, 2019

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, PreventionGenetics to Offer Genetic Testing for Obesity Disorders

Jul 15, 2019

Anorexia GWAS Yields Risk Loci with Metabolic, Psychiatric Overlap

May 22, 2019

Rare Type 2 Diabetes Risk Variants Identified in Exome Sequencing Study

Apr 23, 2019

Blood Protein Signature Reported for Severe Diabetic Kidney Disease

Apr 18, 2019

Genetic Obesity Risk From Polygenic Score May Help With Disease Prevention

Apr 17, 2019

Roche Reports Flat Q1 Diagnostics Sales

Apr 05, 2019

Patia Marketing Diabetes Risk Test Including Polygenic Risk Score, Personalizable Prevention App

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Feb 19, 2019

Dozens of Variants Linked to Body Fat Distribution in Exome-Wide Analysis

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Cost of Meeting Cancellations

Nature News reports on how meeting cancellations and related costs are affecting scientific societies.

Genetic Nondiscrimination Act Upheld

In a new ruling, Canada's Supreme Court upheld the country's genetic non-discrimination law, the Canadian Press reports.

Enhancement Avoidance

COVID-19 vaccine developers aim to avoid a complication that has affected efforts to develop vaccines for other diseases, the Wall Street Journal reports.

PLOS Papers on Shigella Insertion Sequences, Antigens and Plasmodium vivax Diversity, More

In PLOS this week: analysis of insertions throughout Shigella genomes, antigen production in malaria parasites, and more.

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22

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Advances in Genetic Testing for IVF Research: PGT-A, PGT-M, and Carrier Screening

Luis A. Alcaraz, cofounder of Bioarray and Journey Genomics, accredited diagnostic and research labs based in Alicante, Spain, will review how his teams use advanced genomic techniques for carrier screening research as well as for preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) in embryos for both aneuploidies (PGT-A) and monogenic disorders (PGT-M).

Sep

17

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Clinical Diagnosis of Developmental Disorders with Chromosomal Microarrays

The prevalence of developmental disability among US children aged 3 to 17 years increased between 2009 and 2017, with as many as 1 in 6 children in the US reported to have a developmental disability diagnosis.

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