Integrating untargeted metabolomics, genetically informed causal inference, and pathway enrichment to define the obesity metabolome
Yu-Han H. Hsu, Christina M. Astley, Joanne B. Cole, Sailaja Vedantam, Josep Maria Mercader, Andres Metspalu, Krista Fischer, Kristen Fortney, Eric K. Morgen, Clicerio González, Maria E. Gonzalez, Tõnu Esko, Joel N. Hirschhorn
The paper identifies BMI-associated metabolites using untargeted metabolomics and causal inference, finding both known and unknown metabolites with causal links to obesity.
International Journal of Obesity · May 28, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics