Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Lipid-induced transcriptomic changes in blood link to lipid metabolism and allergic response

  • Koen F. Dekkers,
  • Roderick C. Slieker,
  • Andreea Ioan-Facsinay,
  • Maarten van Iterson,
  • BIOS consortium,
  • M. Arfan Ikram,
  • Marleen M. J. van Greevenbroek,
  • Jan H. Veldink,
  • Lude Franke,
  • Dorret I. Boomsma,
  • P. Eline Slagboom,
  • J. Wouter Jukema,
  • Bastiaan T. Heijmans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35663-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Circulating lipids can influence immune cell function, which could have implications for inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Here, the authors use Mendelian randomization to identify genes whose expression is influenced by triglyceride levels in blood, implicating genes involved in lipid metabolism and allergic response.