FGF21, fibroblast growth factor 21, 26291

N. diseases: 236; N. variants: 2
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE FGF-21-transgenic mice were viable and resistant to diet-induced obesity. 15902306 2005
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Serum FGF21 levels in overweight/obese subjects were significantly higher than in lean individuals. 18252893 2008
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Moreover, very recent results from different human cohort studies have shown a paradoxical regulation of plasma FGF21 in obesity and type 2 diabetes as well as other important qualitative differences in the effects and regulation of FGF21 between rodents and humans. 19277467 2009
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE VLCD significantly increased FGF21 mRNA expression in subcutaneous fat of obesity. 19702724 2009
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The results presented here offer a mechanism explaining the induction of the metabolic regulator FGF-21 in the fasting situation but also in type 2 diabetes and obesity. 19401423 2009
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Increased fibroblast growth factor 21 in obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. 20451522 2010
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE To test the hypothesis that obesity is a state of FGF21 resistance, we evaluated the response of obese mice to exogenous FGF21 administration. 20682689 2010
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Clinical use of recombinant fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and other disorders linked to obesity has been proposed; however, its clinical development has been challenging owing to its poor pharmacokinetics. 22174314 2011
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent studies suggest that betaKlotho (KLB) and endocrine FGF19 and FGF21 redirect FGFR signaling to regulation of metabolic homeostasis and suppression of obesity and diabetes. 22442730 2012
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The unexpected finding of an antibody that can activate FGF21-like signaling through cell surface receptors provided preclinical validation for an innovative therapeutic approach to diabetes and obesity. 23197570 2012
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Lack of overt FGF21 resistance in two mouse models of obesity and insulin resistance. 22067317 2012
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Genetic variation of the 3' UTR of the FGF-21 gene was associated with obesity, however, not with MetS or diabetes. 21988350 2012
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE A cytokine involved in cellular metabolism, FGF21 is a potential susceptibility gene for obesity and type 2 diabetes. 23372041 2013
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Recent results suggest that FGF21 is highly expressed in hepatocytes under metabolic stress caused by starvation, hepatosteatosis, obesity and diabetes. 23590285 2013
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) has potent effects on normalizing glucose, lipid, and energy homeostasis, and represents an attractive novel therapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. 23456652 2013
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, in human studies, high circulating FGF21 levels are found in obesity and its related cardiometabolic disorders including the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and coronary artery disease. 23134073 2013
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These findings suggest that systemic administration of liraglutide induces hepatic Fgf21 production and suppresses the social isolation-induced obesity and diabetes independently of insulin, glucagon, and active GLP-1 in KKA(y) mice. 24804243 2014
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Therapeutic disease CTD_human Strategies to activate SIRT1 or FGF21 could be used to treat fatty liver disease and obesity. 24184811 2014
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Cardiac FGF21 was expressed and secreted (real time RT-PCR/western blot and ELISA) in an autocrine-paracrine manner, in response to obesity and hypoxia, involving FGFR1-βKlotho components. 24498293 2014
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Although increased circulating levels of FGF21 have been documented in animal models and human subjects with obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, the functional interconnections between metabolic ER stress and FGF21 are incompletely understood. 25170079 2014
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The in vivo importance of FGF21 induction by ER stress and obesity was determined using inducible Fgf21-transgenic mice and Fgf21-null mice with or without leptin deficiency. 25537833 2015
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent microRNA (miR) studies have revealed that aberrantly elevated miR-34a in obesity directly targets β-Klotho, the obligate coreceptor for both FGF19 and FGF21, and attenuates metabolic signaling of these hormones. 27125742 2016
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A low-calorie, high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet was beneficial for overweight or obese individuals carrying the carbohydrate intake-decreasing allele of the FGF21 variant to improve body composition and abdominal obesity. 27581055 2016
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In mice, fusion of FGF21 to PsTag prolonged and potentiated pharmacological effects of native FGF21, and may offer greater therapeutic effects in treatment of obesity. 27339749 2016
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.400 Therapeutic disease CTD_human On the basis of our findings, we propose selective FAP inhibition as a potential therapeutic approach to increase endogenous FGF21 activity for the treatment of obesity, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and related metabolic disorders. 26797127 2016