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    Trans-ethnic analysis of metabochip data identifies two new loci associated with BMI

    Body mass index (BMI) is commonly used to assess obesity, which is associated with numerous diseases and negative health outcomes. BMI has been shown to be a heritable, polygenic trait, with close to 100 loci ...

    J Gong, K K Nishimura, L Fernandez-Rhodes, J Haessler… in International Journal of Obesity (2018)

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    Generalization and fine map** of European ancestry-based central adiposity variants in African ancestry populations

    Central adiposity measures such as waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are associated with cardiometabolic disorders independently of body mass index (BMI) and are gaining clinically utility....

    S Yoneyama, J Yao, X Guo, L Fernandez-Rhodes, U Lim… in International Journal of Obesity (2017)