"Fatty Acid Desaturases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of enzymes that catalyze the stereoselective, regioselective, or chemoselective syn-dehydrogenation reactions. They function by a mechanism that is linked directly to reduction of molecular OXYGEN.
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D044943
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.682.690.708.392
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fatty Acid Desaturases" by people in Profiles.
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Mid-life anti-inflammatory metabolites are inversely associated with long-term cardiovascular disease events. EBioMedicine. 2025 Feb; 112:105551.
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The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer. EBioMedicine. 2023 05; 91:104510.
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Impact of Amerind ancestry and FADS genetic variation on omega-3 deficiency and cardiometabolic traits in Hispanic populations. Commun Biol. 2021 07 28; 4(1):918.
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Whole Blood DNA Methylation Signatures of Diet Are Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and All-Cause Mortality. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2020 08; 13(4):e002766.
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Evidence for an alternative fatty acid desaturation pathway increasing cancer plasticity. Nature. 2019 02; 566(7744):403-406.
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Sex Differences in Blood HDL-c, the Total Cholesterol/HDL-c Ratio, and Palmitoleic Acid are Not Associated with Variants in Common Candidate Genes. Lipids. 2017 Dec; 52(12):969-980.
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Metabolome-wide association study identified the association between a circulating polyunsaturated fatty acids variant rs174548 and lung cancer. Carcinogenesis. 2017 10 26; 38(11):1147-1154.
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Do genetic modifiers of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels also modify their response to a lifestyle intervention in the setting of obesity and type-2 diabetes mellitus?: The Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2013 Aug; 6(4):391-9.
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A prospective study of the effects of breastfeeding and FADS2 polymorphisms on cognition and hyperactivity/attention problems. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2013 Jul; 162B(5):457-65.
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Characterization of an arachidonic acid-deficient (Fads1 knockout) mouse model. J Lipid Res. 2012 Jul; 53(7):1287-95.