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ey0018.11-7 | New insight: neurobiology and weight regulation | ESPEYB18

11.7. Genetic mapping of etiologic brain cell types for obesity

PN Timshel , JJ Thompson , TH Pers

eLife 2020;9:e55851. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32955435/Timshel et al. describe a novel strategy for integrating single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data with GWAS data on BMI associated genetic variants, and thereby identify 26 exclusively neuronal cell types that are significantly enriched for BMI heritability.The authors developed two scRNA-seq computation...

ey0020.9-2 | New Findings in Adipose Tissue | ESPEYB20

9.2. A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue

M Emont , C Jacobs , AL Essene , D Pant , D Tenen , G Colleluori , A Di Vincenzo , AM Jorgensen , H Dashti , A Stefek , E McGonagle , S Strobel , S Laber , S Agrawal , GP Westcott , A Kar , ML Veregge , A Gulko , H Srinivasan , Z Kramer , E De Felippis , E Merkel , J Ducie , CG Boyd , W Gourash , A Courcoulas , SJ Lin , BT Lee , D Morris , A Tobias , AV Khera , M Claussnitzer , TH Pers , A Giodano , O Askenberg , A Regev , LT Tsai , ED Rosen

Brief summary: Emont et al. created a cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue, which goes a long way in informing our understanding of the complexity of adipose tissue.Although adipocytes make up the largest proportion of adipose tissue volume, the cellular structure of adipose tissue is far more complex and includes adipose tissue progenitor cells (APCs), fibroblasts, vascular cells and immune cells. We are also beginning to understa...