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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

  • Elizabeth K. Speliotes
  • , Cristen J. Willer
  • , Sonja I. Berndt
  • , Keri L. Monda
  • , Gudmar Thorleifsson
  • , Anne U. Jackson
  • , Hana Lango Allen
  • , Cecilia M. Lindgren
  • , Jian'An Luan
  • , Reedik Mägi
  • , Joshua C. Randall
  • , Sailaja Vedantam
  • , Thomas W. Winkler
  • , Lu Qi
  • , Tsegaselassie Workalemahu
  • , Iris Heid
  • , Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
  • , Heather Stringham
  • , Michael N. Weedon
  • , Eeleanor Wheeler
  • Andrew R. Wood, Teresa Ferreira, Robert J. Weyant, Ayellet V. Segrè, Karol Eestrada, Liming Liang, James Nemesh, Ju Hyun Park, Stefan Gustafsson, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Jian Yang, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Tõnu Eesko, Mary F. Feitosa, Zoltán Kutalik, Massimo Mangino, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Andre Scherag, Albert Vernon Smith, Ryan Welch, Jing Hua Zhao, Katja K. Aben, Devin M. Absher, Najaf Amin, Anna L. Dixon, Eeva Fisher, Nicole Glazer, Michael E. Goddard, Nancy Heard-Costa, Volker Hoesel, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Åsa Johansson, Toby Johnson, Shamika Ketkar, Claudia Lamina, Shengxu Li, Miriam F. Moffatt, Richard H. Myers, Narisu Narisu, John R.B. Perry, Marjolein J. Peters, Micheal Preuss, Samuli Ripatti, Fernando Rivadeneira, Camilla Sandholt, Laura J. Scott, Nicholas J. Timpson, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Sophie Van Wingerden, Richard Watanabe, Charles C. White, Fredrik Wiklund, Christina Barlassina, Daniel I. Chasman, Matthew N. Cooper, John Olov Jansson, Robert W. 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  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • University of Michigan School of Public Health
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • deCODE genetics
  • University of Exeter
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  • Institute of Metabolic Science
  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Klinikum der Universität Regensburg und Medizinische Fakultät
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Erasmus University Medical Center
  • Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging Sponsored by Netherlands Genomics Initiative
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Institute of Biology and Lille 2 University
  • CHU Lille and Lille-2 University
  • University of Tartu
  • University of Tartu
  • Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • University of Lausanne
  • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • King's College London
  • Harvard Medical School
  • University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Icelandic Heart Association
  • University of Iceland
  • Comprehensive Cancer Center East
  • HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
  • University of Bath, Department of Life Sciences
  • German Institute of Human Nutrition
  • University of Washington School of Medicine
  • University of Melbourne
  • Department of Primary Industries
  • Boston University School of Medicine
  • Technical University of Munich
  • VU University Amsterdam
  • Uppsala University
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
  • Medical University Innsbruck
  • National Heart and Lung Institute
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  • Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Lübeck
  • University of Helsinki
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Hagedorn Research Institute
  • MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology
  • Department of Oncology
  • Keck School of Medicine of USC
  • Boston University School of Public Health
  • University of Milan
  • University of Western Australia
  • University of Gothenburg
  • University Vita-Salute San Raffaele
  • University Hospital Malmö
  • University of Washington
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  • Folkhälsan
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  • European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
  • General Central Hospital
  • Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald
  • Diabetes and Obesity Unit
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  • University of Zagreb Medical School
  • University Hospital Leipzig
  • Kuopion Yliopistollinen sairaala
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
  • Institut interrégional pour la Santé (IRSA)
  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)
  • Tampere University Hospital
  • Université de Montréal
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  • Haartman Institute
  • Göteborgs Universitet
  • University of Cambridge
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  • Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard
  • LORIA, UMR 7503, University of Lorraine
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  • University of Split Medical School
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  • McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences
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  • Nord-Trøndelag Health Trust
  • Gen-info Ltd
  • University of Leicester
  • University of Turku
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  • Veterans Administration Medical Center
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  • Pacific Biosciences
  • Sage Bionetworks
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
  • University of North Carolina
  • St. George's University of London
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • University of Iceland

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Abstract

Obesity is globaLy prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined aSociations betwEn body maS index and ĝ̂1/42.8 miLion SNPs in up to 123,865 individuals with targeted foLow up of 42 SNPs in up to 125,931 aDitional individuals. We confirmed 14 known obesity susceptibility loci and identified 18 new loci aSociated with body maS index (P < 5-10-8), one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B. Some loci (at MC4R, POMC, SH2B1 and BDNF) map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor. Furthermore, genes in other newly aSociated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)937-948
Number of pages12
JournalNature Genetics
Volume42
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2010

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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