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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2020

FADS3 is a Δ14Z sphingoid base desaturase that contributes to gender differences in the human plasma sphingolipidome.

Gergely Karsai, Museer Lone, Zoltán Kutalik, J Thomas Brenna, Hongde Li, Duojia Pan, Arnold von Eckardstein, Thorsten Hornemann

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Gergely KarsaiInstitute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital and University Zurich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Museer LoneInstitute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital and University Zurich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Zoltán KutalikUniversity Center for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne, 1010 Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
J Thomas BrennaDell Pediatric Research Institute, Departments of Chemistry, Pediatrics, and Nutrition, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78723.
Hongde LiDepartment of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390.
Duojia PanDepartment of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390.
Arnold von EckardsteinInstitute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital and University Zurich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Thorsten HornemannInstitute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital and University Zurich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland. Electronic address: thorsten.hornemann@usz.ch.
University Hospital of Zurich · CHThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sphingolipids (SLs) are structurally diverse lipids that are defined by the presence of a long-chain base (LCB) backbone. Typically, LCBs contain a single Δ4E double bond (DB) (mostly d18:1), whereas the dienic LCB sphingadienine (d18:2) contains a second DB at the Δ14Z position. The enzyme introducing the Δ14Z DB is unknown. We analyzed the LCB plasma profile in a gender-, age-, and BMI-matched subgroup of the CoLaus cohort (

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PMID31862735
PMCPMC7029104
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