27 May 2026

An investigation of the Estonian Biobank and the UK Biobank has identified more than 88,000 associations between more than 8,000 genomic regions and metabolic traits. The combined size of the sample enabled the detection of many more associations than in previous efforts.

This is a summary of: Tambets, R. et al. Genetic analysis of circulating metabolic traits in 619,372 individuals. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10532-5 (2026).

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