Karsten Suhre
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Karsten Suhre
@ksuhre.bsky.social
Passionate about #GWAS #Metabolomics #Proteomics #Glycomics #Epigenomics, Professor @WeillCornell
Medicine - Qatar, Blog on http://metabolomix.com, http://suhre.fr
Pharma companies take note - human knockouts in bottleneck and consanguineous populations are up and coming.

Plasma Metabolic Outliers Identified in #Estonian Human Knockouts: www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/15...

citing our #Qatar study with @metabolon.bsky.social data:

www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I have always been a proponent of hypothesis-free testing of metabolite rations: This paper is just great in how it takes it to the next level:

Untargeted pixel-by- pixel metabolite ratio imaging as a novel tool for biomedical discovery in mass spectrometry imaging

elifesciences.org/articles/96892
September 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Did you know that DNA methylation can show Mendelian inheritance pattern?

clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
May 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
When one of your first research papers from 30 years back just got cited, and the figures look very similar, you ask yourself where time went - did the research questions change?

Our 1994 paper:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Recent 2022 paper:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
March 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Genome-wide Association Studies of Missing Metabolite Measures: Results From Two Population-based Studies

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I wonder what a GWAS with imputing missing to zero would yield in comparison.
March 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Interested in joint multiomics data?

Metabolon, Biocrates, Lipidyzer, Chenomx, SOMAscan, Olink, Nightingale, Genos, Exiqon and Illumina genomics (OmniArray, HumanMethylation, RNAseq)

Check out our COMICS server

littleswissriver.shinyapps.io/generate_net...

and BLOG

www.metabolomix.com/comics/
March 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A study associating 5,000 plasma proteins (SOMAscan) with BMI and waist-hip ratio:

Plasma Proteomic Signatures of Adiposity Are Associated With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Type 2 Diabetes Risk in a Multiethnic Asian Population

diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...
March 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Here a GWAS with MS-proteomics in 700 GTEx samples reporting 1981 cis-pQTLs

Regulation of protein abundance in normal human tissues

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interesting link between NAT2 and HMGCR - the locus also associates with statin use in FinnGen (p=2.5e-15)
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A paper addressing discrepancies between Olink and SOMAscan. Most important factor explaining the (non)correlation is the % of LOD samples in Olink:

Comparative studies of 2168 plasma proteins measured by two affinity-based platforms in 4000 Chinese adults

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Here a 3D fullerene C60 molecule that I 3D printed starting with a PDB structure file.

Here is how to do it:

makerworld.com/en/models/96...
March 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Free access to 2,656 metabolites from 9 platforms measured at 56 time points and covering 6 challenges "suffered" by 15 healthy volunteers:

The HuMet Repository - Watching human metabolism at work

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All data provided in an interactive repository:

humet.org
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
and this elegant phone stand with engraved Islamic design pattern:

makerworld.com/en/models/11...

Let me know if you have further ideas and suggestions!
March 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Now with Ramadan coming, 3D printing can also be nice to create some seasonal office decorations, such as this Ramadan-themed door corner art:

makerworld.com/en/models/10...
March 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
and this elegant phone stand with engraved Islamic design pattern:

makerworld.com/en/models/11...

Let me know if you have further ideas and suggestions!
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Happy Ramadan to my Muslim colleagues and friends!

Lately, I got into 3D-printing molecules and proteins. Here a short HowTo for getting from a PDB file to a solid 3D

model:

makerworld.com/en/models/96...
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Solute carriers: The gatekeepers of metabolism

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A nice review on how to use #GWAS with #metabolomics to determine transporter substrates.

Here another one that we experimentally confirmed:

"SLC16A9 is a carnitine efflux transporter"

www.nature.com/articles/nat...
February 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
For sone time I maintained a sourdough starter using a protocol to make a sourdough bread per day (in a country where this was rare to come by), but getting consistent results was tricky, putting all ingredients into the machine in the evening and programming it for baking the next morning.
January 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Happy New Year 😃
January 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Omics Resources and Applications in Date Palm

doi.org/10.1007/978-...

11/12
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Deletion of beta-fructofuranosidase (invertase) genes is associated with sucrose content in Date Palm fruit

doi.org/10.1002/pld3...

10/12
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Evidence of Recombination Suppression Blocks on the Y Chromosome of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera)

doi.org/10.3389/fpls...

9/12
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Genome-wide association of dry (Tamar) date palm fruit color

doi.org/10.1002/tpg2...

8/12
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Metabolic changes of the blood metabolome after a date fruit challenge

doi.org/10.1016/j.jf...

7/12
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
A comprehensive metabolomic data set of date palm fruit

doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

6/12
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM