NRXN3 Is a Novel Locus for Waist Circumference: A Genome-Wide Association Study from the CHARGE Consortium

Central abdominal fat is a strong risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To identify common variants influencing central abdominal fat, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association analysis for waist circumference (WC). In total, three loci reached genome-wide significance. In stag...

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Autores principales: Heard-Costa, Nancy L., Zillikens, M. Carola, Monda, Keri L., Johansson, Åsa, Harris, Tamara B., Fu, Mao, Haritunians, Talin, Feitosa, Mary F., Aspelund, Thor, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Garcia, Melissa, Launer, Lenore J., Smith, Albert V., Mitchell, Braxton D., McArdle, Patrick F., Shuldiner, Alan R., Bielinski, Suzette J., Boerwinkle, Eric, Brancati, Fred, Demerath, Ellen W., Pankow, James S., Arnold, Alice M., Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Glazer, Nicole L., McKnight, Barbara, Psaty, Bruce M., Rotter, Jerome I., Amin, Najaf, Campbell, Harry, Gyllensten, Ulf, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Rudan, Igor, Struchalin, Maksim, Vitart, Veronique, Gao, Xiaoyi, Kraja, Aldi, Province, Michael A., Zhang, Qunyuan, Atwood, Larry D., Dupuis, Josée, Hirschhorn, Joel N., Jaquish, Cashell E., O'Donnell, Christopher J., Vasan, Ramachandran S., White, Charles C., Aulchenko, Yurii S., Estrada, Karol, Hofman, Albert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, André G., Witteman, Jacqueline C. M., Oostra, Ben A., Kaplan, Robert C., Gudnason, Vilmundur, O'Connell, Jeffrey R., Borecki, Ingrid B., van Duijn, Cornelia M., Cupples, L. Adrienne, Fox, Caroline S., North, Kari E.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19557197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000539

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