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New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution
Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distr...
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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), ...
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Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height
Timothy Frayling, Joel Hirschhorn, Peter Visscher and colleagues report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for adult height in 253,288 individuals. They identify 697 variants in 423 loci signif...
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Quality control and conduct of genome-wide association meta-analyses
A protocol providing guidelines on the organizational aspects of genome-wide association meta-analyses and to implement quality control at the study file level, the meta-level across studies, and the meta-anal...
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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture
Erik Ingelsson and colleagues report a large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis for associations to the extremes of anthropometric traits, including body mass index, height, waist-to-hip ratio and clinical obesit...
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Erratum: Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution
Nat. Genet. 42, 949–960 (2010); published online 10 October 2010; corrected after print 12 October 2011 In the version of this article initially published, there were errors in Table 1. Specifically, for eight...
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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
Ruth Loos and colleagues report results of a large genome-wide association study for body mass index. They identify 18 new loci associated with this trait, some of which map near key hypothalamic regulators of...
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Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution
Cecilia Lindgren and colleagues report results of a large-scale genome-wide association study for waist-to-hip ratio, a measure of body fat distribution. They identify 13 new loci associated with this trait, s...
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Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
A genome-wide association (GWA) study of more than 180,000 individuals has identified hundreds of genetic variants in at least 180 loci associated with adult human height. The loci are not clustered randomly b...
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Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity
To identify common variants influencing body mass index (BMI), we analyzed genome-wide association data from 16,876 individuals of European descent. After previously reported variants in FTO, the strongest associ...
