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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2018

Gene-lifestyle interplay in type 2 diabetes.

Paul W Franks, Jordi Merino

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Association of genetic risk and physical activity with incident type 2 diabetes.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2026
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  10. Exercise and inactivity as modifiers of β cell function and type 2 diabetes risk.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Paul W FranksDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, SE-21741 Malmö Sweden; Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: Paul.Franks@med.lu.se.
Jordi MerinoDiabetes Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Programs in Metabolism and Medical & Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Broad Institute · USUmeå University · SE

Funding

Pregnancy and EARly Lifestyle improvement Study (PEARLS)U01HD072834 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES · PI FRANKS, PAUL WILLIAM, JOSHIPURA, KAUMUDI J · 2011 to 2016
$3.7M
NICHD NIH HHS U01 HD072834
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is widespread, affecting the health of hundreds of millions worldwide. The disease results from the complex interplay of lifestyle factors acting on a backdrop of inherited DNA risk variants. Detecting and understanding biomarkers, whether genotypes or other downstream biological features that dictate a person's phenotypic response to different lifestyle exposures, may have tremendous utility in the prevention of T2D. Here, we explore (i) evidence of how human genetic adaptation to diverse local environments might interact with lifestyle factors in T2D, (ii) the key challenges facing the research area of gene×lifestyle interactions in T2D, and (iii) the solutions that might be pursued in future studies. Overall, many preliminary examples of such interactions exist, but none is sufficient to have a major impact on clinical decision making. Future studies, integrating genetics and other biological markers into regulatory networks, are likely to be necessary to facilitate the integration of genomics into lifestyle medicine in T2D.

Indexed as

Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseLife StyleDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleGene-Environment InteractionGenotypeHumansPolymorphism, Single NucleotideRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID29459268
PMCPMC6594151
OpenAlexW2789784383

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Registered trials

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