Khalaji, Samira https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6329-8530
Venit, Tomas
Lukáčová, Zuzana
Fambri, Valentina https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5329-8282
Shrestha, Rahul
Kaluarachchi, Sachin https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7036-9382
Boitet, Maylis
Fagny, Maud
Saldi, Giuseppe
Percipalle, Piergiorgio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9546-7425
Funding for this research was provided by:
New York University Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences
PP was also funded by Tamkeen under the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute Award to the NYUAD Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | Ústav Organické Chemie a Biochemie, Akademie Věd České Republiky
Article History
Received: 31 July 2025
Revised: 21 January 2026
Accepted: 16 February 2026
First Online: 26 February 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at New York University (protocol number: 23-0009A1). This study did not involve recruitment of human participants or collection of identifiable human data. Human adipose tissue eQTL network data (GTEx v8) were obtained from previously published, de-identified resources; informed consent was obtained from all participants by the original study investigators, as described in the corresponding primary studies.
: Not applicable. This manuscript does not include any identifiable images or personal data from human participants.