Trans-Ethnic Analysis of Metabochip Data Identifies Two New Loci Associated with BMI

OBJECTIVE: 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 previously identified and replicated in multiple populations. We aim to replicat...

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Published in:Int J Obes (Lond)
Main Authors: Gong, Jian, Nishimura, Katherine K., Fernandez-Rhodes, Lindsay, Haessler, Jeffery, Bien, Stephanie, Graff, Misa, Lim, Unhee, Lu, Yingchang, Gross, Myron, Fornage, Myriam, Yoneyama, Sachiko, Isasi, Carmen R., Buzkova, Petra, Daviglus, Martha, Lin, Dan-Yu, Tao, Ran, Goodloe, Robert, Bush, William S., Farber-Eger, Eric, Boston, Jonathan, Dilks, Holli H., Ehret, Georg, Gu, C. Charles, Lewis, Cora E., Nguyen, Khanh-Dung H., Cooper, Richard, Leppert, Mark, Irvin, Marguerite R., Bottinger, Erwin P., Wilkens, Lynne R., Haiman, Christopher A., Park, Lani, Monroe, Kristine R., Cheng, Iona, Stram, Daniel O., Carlson, Christopher S., Jackson, Rebecca, Kuller, Lew, Houston, Denise, Kooperberg, Charles, Buyske, Steven, Hindorff, Lucia A., Crawford, Dana C., Loos, Ruth J.F., Le Marchand, Loic, Matise, Tara C., North, Kari E., Peters, Ulrike
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876082/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29381148
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.304
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