Publications by Evan Graehl Williams

The mouse metallomic landscape of aging and metabolism

Johan Auwerx, Richardus Houtkooper, Evan Graehl Williams, Pooja Jha, Ludger Jan Elzuë Goeminne, Jean-David Horacio Morel

The metallome is crucial for normal cell functioning but remains largely overlooked in mammals. Here the authors analyze the metallome and copper and zinc isotope compositions in aging mice and show networks of interactions that are organ-specific, age-dep ...

Nature Research2022

A platform for experimental precision medicine: The extended BXD mouse family

Johan Auwerx, Evan Graehl Williams

The challenge of precision medicine is to model complex interactions among DNA variants, phenotypes, development, environments, and treatments. We address this challenge by expanding the BXD family of mice to 140 fully isogenic strains, creating a uniquely ...

CELL PRESS2021

Gene-by-environment modulation of lifespan and weight gain in the murine BXD family

Johan Auwerx, Maroun Bou Sleiman, Evan Graehl Williams, Pooja Jha

How lifespan and body weight vary as a function of diet and genetic differences is not well understood. Here we quantify the impact of differences in diet on lifespan in a genetically diverse family of female mice, split into matched isogenic cohorts fed a ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Mild inborn errors of metabolism in commonly used inbred mouse strains

Johan Auwerx, Wei Zhang, Evan Graehl Williams

Inbred mouse strains are a cornerstone of translational research but paradoxically many strains carry mild inborn errors of metabolism. For example, alpha-aminoadipic acidemia and branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase deficiency are known in C57BL/6J mice. ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

Diet modulates cecum bacterial diversity and physiological phenotypes across the BXD mouse genetic reference population

Johan Auwerx, Evan Graehl Williams

The BXD family has become one of the preeminent genetic reference populations to understand the genetic and environmental control of phenotypic variation. Here we evaluate the responses to different levels of fat in the diet using both chow diet (CD, 13-18 ...

2019

A new class of protein biomarkers based on subcellular distribution: application to a mouse liver cancer model

Kristina Schoonjans, Vera Monica Lemos Da Silva, Evan Graehl Williams, Pan Xu, Amir Banaei Esfahani, Chen Li, Ruedi Aebersold

To-date, most proteomic studies aimed at discovering tissue-based cancer biomarkers have compared the quantity of selected proteins between case and control groups. However, proteins generally function in association with other proteins to form modules loc ...

Nature Research2019

Genetic cartography of longevity in humans and mice: Current landscape and horizons

Johan Auwerx, Sylvain Roy, Maroun Bou Sleiman, Evan Graehl Williams

2018

Genetic Regulation of Plasma Lipid Species and Their Association with Metabolic Phenotypes

Johan Auwerx, Maroun Bou Sleiman, Evan Graehl Williams, Karim Laurent Gariani, Pooja Jha, Pedro Moral Quiros

2018

Systems Analyses Reveal Physiological Roles and Genetic Regulators of Liver Lipid Species

Johan Auwerx, Maroun Bou Sleiman, Evan Graehl Williams, Karim Laurent Gariani, Pooja Jha, Léo Aurélio Diserens, Pedro Moral Quiros

2018

Quantifying and Localizing the Mitochondrial Proteome Across Five Tissues in A Mouse Population

Johan Auwerx, Jun Yong Kim, Dongryeol Ryu, Evan Graehl Williams, Pooja Jha, Jiayi Lan, Ruedi Aebersold, Moaraj Hasan

We have used SWATH mass spectrometry to quantify 3648 proteins across 76 proteomes collected from genetically diverse BXD mouse strains in two fractions (mitochondria and total cell) from five tissues: liver, quadriceps, heart, brain, and brown adipose (BA ...

AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC2018