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- Cooper, Kira Jade, et al.
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Inner Transformation and Well-being: A Transformations Community Dialogue
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Ingår i: Transformative Partnerships: Proceedings of Transformations Conference '23.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Trends towards unsustainability are worsening, driving interest in inner transformation to support progress towards a more viable and just future. Many approaches to these transformations include interventions intended to shift ways of seeing, being, and relating in the world from a narrative of separation towards one of interconnectedness. Transforming dominant systems that perpetuate inequities and imperil both social and ecological systems is a necessary yet profoundly challenging task. This paper synthesizes the dialogue between four individuals with diverse backgrounds in inner transformation, sustainability, and systemic change hosted by the Transformations Community at the annual 2023 conference. Diverse approaches to and cautions for shifting mindsets towards more sustainable worldviews were discussed. Emergent insights from the discussion inform a growing body of scholarship and practice at the nexus of inner and outer sustainability.
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- Yoneyama, Sachiko, et al.
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Gene-centric meta-analyses for central adiposity traits in up to 57 412 individuals of European descent confirm known loci and reveal several novel associations
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Ingår i: Human Molecular Genetics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0964-6906 .- 1460-2083. ; 23:9, s. 2498-2510
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are surrogate measures of central adiposity that are associated with adverse cardiovascular events, type 2 diabetes and cancer independent of body mass index (BMI). WC and WHR are highly heritable with multiple susceptibility loci identified to date. We assessed the association between SNPs and BMI-adjusted WC and WHR and unadjusted WC in up to 57 412 individuals of European descent from 22 cohorts collaborating with the NHLBIs Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) project. The study population consisted of women and men aged 2080 years. Study participants were genotyped using the ITMAT/Broad/CARE array, which includes 50 000 cosmopolitan tagged SNPs across 2100 cardiovascular-related genes. Each trait was modeled as a function of age, study site and principal components to control for population stratification, and we conducted a fixed-effects meta-analysis. No new loci for WC were observed. For WHR analyses, three novel loci were significantly associated (P 2.4 10(6)). Previously unreported rs2811337-G near TMCC1 was associated with increased WHR ( SE, 0.048 0.008, P 7.7 10(9)) as was rs7302703-G in HOXC10 ( 0.044 0.008, P 2.9 10(7)) and rs936108-C in PEMT ( 0.035 0.007, P 1.9 10(6)). Sex-stratified analyses revealed two additional novel signals among females only, rs12076073-A in SHC1 ( 0.10 0.02, P 1.9 10(6)) and rs1037575-A in ATBDB4 ( 0.046 0.01, P 2.2 10(6)), supporting an already established sexual dimorphism of central adiposity-related genetic variants. Functional analysis using ENCODE and eQTL databases revealed that several of these loci are in regulatory regions or regions with differential expression in adipose tissue.
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