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    • Fuentes, Consuelo; Morales, Gladys; Valenzuela Báez, Rodrigo Wladimir (Sociedad Chilena de Nutrición, 2021)
      Obesidad y sobrepeso se asocian a resistencia a la insulina, diabetes tipo 2, perfil lipídico anormal, presión sanguínea elevada, enfermedad cardiovascular. Se estima que en 2016 el 39% de la población adulta mundial tenía ...
    • Glaves, Alice; Díaz Castro, Francisco Leopoldo; Farías, Javiera; Ramírez Romero, Rodrigo; Galgani, José E.; Fernández Verdejo, Rodrigo (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Adipose tissue total amount, distribution, and phenotype influence metabolic health. This may be partially mediated by the metabolic effects that these adipose tissue characteristics exert on the nearby and distant ...
    • Durán, Ana Clara; Mialon, Melissa; Crosbie, Eric; Jensen, Melissa Lorena; Harris, Jennifer L.; Batis, Carolina; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Smith Taillie, Lindsey (Wiley, 2021)
      The food environment is a major contributor to unhealthy diets in children and, therefore, to the increasing rates of obesity. Acclaimed by scholars across the world, Latin American countries have been leaders in ...
    • Yoon, Lara S.; Jacobs, Jonathan P.; Hoehner, Jessica; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana Ines; Gana, Juan Cristóbal; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Michels, Karin B. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The gut microbiome has been linked to breast cancer via immune, inflammatory, and hormonal mechanisms. We examined the relation between adolescent breast density and gut microbial composition and function in a cohort of ...
    • Faúndes Gómez, Víctor Manuel; Goh, Stephanie; Akilapa, Rhoda; Bezuidenhout, Heidre; Bjornsson, Hans T.; Bradley, Lisa; Brady, Angela F.; Brischoux Boucher, Elise; Brunner, Han; Bulk, Saskia; Canham, Natalie; Cody, Declan; Dentici, María Lisa; Digilio, María Cristina; Elmslie, Frances; Fry, Andrew E.; Gill, Harinder; Hurst, Jane; Johnson, Diana; Julia, Sophie; Lachlan, Katherine; Lebel, Robert Roger; Byler, Melissa; Gershon, Eric; Lemire, Edmond; Gnazzo, María; Lepri, Francesca Romana; Marchese, Antonia; McEntagart, Meriel; McGaughran, Julie; Mizuno, Seiji; Okamoto, Nobuhiko; Rieubland, Claudine; Rodgers, Jonathan; Sasaki, Erina; Scalais, Emmanuel; Scurr, Ingrid; Suri, Mohnish; van der Burgt, Ineke; Matsumoto, Naomichi; Miyake, Noriko; Benoit, Valérie; Lederer, Damien; Banka, Siddharth (Nature, 2021)
      PURPOSE: The variant spectrum and the phenotype of X-linked Kabuki syndrome type 2 (KS2) are poorly understood. METHODS: Genetic and clinical details of new and published individuals with pathogenic KDM6A variants were ...
    • Fuenzalida, Karen; Leal Witt, María Jesús; Guerrero, Patricio; Hamilton Viollier, Valerie; Salazar, María Florencia; Peñaloza, Felipe; Arias Pefaur, Carolina; Cornejo Espinoza, Veronica del Carmen (MDPI, 2021)
      Treatment and follow-up in Hereditary Tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1) patients require comprehensive clinical and dietary management, which involves drug therapy with NTBC and the laboratory monitoring of parameters, including ...
    • Gaete, Alexis; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo Enrique; Hodar Quiroga, Christian Eduardo; Maldonado, Jonathan; Pavez, Leonardo; Zamorano, Denisse; Pastenes Villarreal, Claudio; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro; Franck Berger, Nicolas; Mandakovic Seyler, Dinka Slavje (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Since drought is the leading environmental factor limiting crop productivity, and plants have a significant impact in defining the assembly of plant-specific microbial communities associated with roots, we aimed to ...
    • Martínez Steele, Eurídice; Batis, Carolina; Cediel Giraldo, Gustavo Andrés; Da Costa Louzada, María Laura; Khandpur, Neha; Machado, Priscila; Moubarac, Jean-Claude; Rauber, Fernanda; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela Adriana; Bertazzi Levy, Renata; Monteiro, Carlos A. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2021)
      Cross-sectional nutritional survey data collected in eight countries were used to estimate saturated fatty acid intakes. Our objective was to estimate the proportion of excessive saturated fatty acid intakes (>10 % of ...
    • Time, Alson; Ponce, Claudio; Kuhn, Nathalie; Arellano, Macarena; Sagredo, Boris; Donoso, José Manuel; Meisel, Lee Ann (MDPI, 2021)
      Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a major role in promoting ripening in sweet cherry, a non-climacteric fruit. Exogenous application of ABA has been performed to study fruit ripening and cracking, but this growth regulator is not ...
    • Parra Flores, Julio; Holý, Ondrej; Riffo, Francisca; Lepuschitz, Sarah; Maury-Sintjago, Eduard; Rodríguez Fernández, Alejandra; Cruz Córdova, Ariadnna; Xicohtencatl Cortés, Juan; Mancilla Rojano, Jetsi; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo; Ruppitsch, Werner; Forsythe, Stephen (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Cronobacter sakazakii is an enteropathogen that causes neonatal meningitis, septicemia, and necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants and newborns with a mortality rate of 15 to 80%. Powdered and dairy formulas (P-DF) ...
    • Faúndes Gómez, Víctor Manuel; Jennings, Martin D.; Crilly, Siobhan; Legraie, Sarah; Withers, Sarah E.; Cuvertino, Sara; Davies, Sally J.; Douglas L., Andrew G.; Fry, Andrew E.; Harrison, Victoria; Amiel, Jeanne; Lehalle, Daphné; Newman, William G.; Newkirk, Patricia; Ranells, Judith; Splitt, Miranda; Cross, Laura A.; Saunders, Carol J.; Sullivan, Bonnie R.; Granadillo, Jorge L.; Gordon, Christopher T.; Kasher, Paul R.; Pavitt, Graham D.; Banka, Siddharth (Nature, 2021)
      The structure of proline prevents it from adopting an optimal position for rapid protein synthesis. Poly-proline-tract (PPT) associated ribosomal stalling is resolved by highly conserved eIF5A, the only protein to contain ...
    • Perng, Wei; Cantoral, Alejandra; Soria Contreras, Diana C.; Betanzos Robledo, Larissa; Kordas, Katarzyna; Liu, Yun; Mora, Ana M.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana Inés; Cardoso, Marly Augusto; Chavarro, Jorge E.; Breton, Carrie V.; Meeker, John D.; Harley, Kim G.; Eskenazi, Brenda; Peterson, Karen E.; Téllez Rojo, Martha María (Wiley, 2021)
      Following a 2019 workshop led by the Center for Global Health Studies at the Fogarty International Center on the topic of childhood obesity prevention and research synergies transpiring from cross-border collaborations, ...
    • Pérez Escamilla, Rafael; Vilar Compte, Mireya; Rhodes, Elizabeth; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Sturke, Rachel; Vorkoper, Susan (Wiley, 2021)
      Progress has been made in the development and widespread implementation of effective interventions to address childhood obesity, yet important challenges remain. To understand how the United States and Latin American ...
    • Mardones, Lorena; Petermann Rocha, Fanny Emily; Martínez Sanguinetti, María Adela; Leiva, Ana María; Troncoso Pantoja, Claudia Andrea; Martorell, Miquel; Lasserre, Nicole; Ulloa, Natalia; Pérez Bravo, Francisco Antonio; Celis Morales, Carlos; Villagrán, Marcelo (SBEM-Soc Brasil Endocrinologia & Metabologia, 2021)
      Objective: To study the association of SLC16A11 gene variants with obesity and metabolic markers in nondiabetic Chilean adults. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study included 263 nondiabetic adults. The ...
    • Gangiredla, Jayanthi; Rand, Hugh; Benisatto, Daniel; Payne, Justin; Strittmatter, Charles; Sanders, Jimmy; Wolfgang, William J.; Libuit, Kevin; Herrick, James B.; Prarat, Melanie; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Farrell, Thomas; Strain, Errol (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Processing and analyzing whole genome sequencing (WGS) is computationally intense: a single Illumina MiSeq WGS run produces ~ 1 million 250-base-pair reads for each of 24 samples. This poses significant obstacles ...
    • Celis Morales, Carlos; Leiva Ordóñez, Ana María; Nazar, Gabriela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia Hortensia; Troncoso, Claudia; Cigarroa Cuevas, Igor (Soc Medica Santiago, 2021)
    • Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Rogan Castillo, Jose Antonio; Blanco, Estela; East, Patricia; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows Argote, Raquel del Carmen (Nature Research, 2021)
      Obesity is the most important predisposing factor for cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes. We explored the relationship between the age at onset of obesity and selected cardiometabolic parameters in young adults. ...
    • Fretes, Gabriela; Sepúlveda, Amapola; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Cash, Sean B. (MDPI, 2021)
      Food is inextricably linked to human health and environmental sustainability; however, very little is known about children's perceptions of the concept of sustainability in the context of food choices. We aimed to explore ...
    • Kuhn, Nathalie; Maldonado, Jonathan; Ponce Ibáñez, Claudio Miguel; Arellano Sepúlveda, Macarena Patricia; Time, Alson; Multari, Salvatore; Martens, Stefan; Carrera, Esther; Donoso, José Manuel; Sagredo, Boris; Meisel, Lee Ann (Nature, 2021)
      Gibberellin (GA) negatively affects color evolution and other ripening-related processes in non-climacteric fruits. The bioactive GA, gibberellic acid (GA(3)), is commonly applied at the light green-to-straw yellow transition ...
    • Araya, C.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Cediel, G.; Taillie, L. S.; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela Adriana (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Introduction: In adults, intake of ultra-processed foods (UPF) has been linked with poor diets and adverse health outcomes. In young children, evidence is scarcer but suggests a higher dietary share of UPF. Objective: ...