Prof. Yvonne Böttcher | Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
My research interests lie in the field of genetics/epigenetics of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Selected references
Rohde K, Klös M, Hopp L, Liu X, Keller M, Stumvoll M, Dietrich A, Schön MR, Gärtner D, Lohmann T, Dreßler M, Kovacs P, Binder H, Blüher M, Böttcher Y. IRS1 DNA promoter methylation and expression in human adipose tissue are related to fat distribution and metabolic traits. Sci Rep. 2017 Sep 28;7(1):12369.
Keller M, Hopp L, Liu X, Wohland T, Rohde K, Cancello R, Klös M, Bacos K, Kern M, Eichelmann F, Dietrich A, Schön MR, Gärtner D, Lohmann T, Dreßler M, Stumvoll M, Kovacs P, DiBlasio AM, Ling C, Binder H, Blüher M, Böttcher Y. Genome-wide DNA promoter methylation and transcriptome analysis in human adipose tissue unravels novel candidate genes for obesity. Mol Metab. 2016 Nov 16;6(1):86-100.
Rohde K, Keller M, Stumvoll M, Dietrich A, Blüher M, Böttcher Y. DNA 5-hydroxymethylation in human adipose tissue differs between subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue depots. Epigenomics. 2015;7(6):911-20.
Locke et al., Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature. 2015 Feb 12;518(7538):197-206.