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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Autores principales: 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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29381148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.304

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29381148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.304

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