Nature Communications (Nov 2016)
A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape
- Janina S. Ried,
- Janina Jeff M.,
- Audrey Y. Chu,
- Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,
- Jenny van Dongen,
- Jennifer E. Huffman,
- Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,
- Gemma Cadby,
- Niina Eklund,
- Joel Eriksson,
- Tõnu Esko,
- Mary F. Feitosa,
- Anuj Goel,
- Mathias Gorski,
- Caroline Hayward,
- Nancy L. Heard-Costa,
- Anne U. Jackson,
- Eero Jokinen,
- Stavroula Kanoni,
- Kati Kristiansson,
- Zoltán Kutalik,
- Jari Lahti,
- Jian'an Luan,
- Reedik Mägi,
- Anubha Mahajan,
- Massimo Mangino,
- Carolina Medina-Gomez,
- Keri L. Monda,
- Ilja M. Nolte,
- Louis Pérusse,
- Inga Prokopenko,
- Lu Qi,
- Lynda M. Rose,
- Erika Salvi,
- Megan T. Smith,
- Harold Snieder,
- Alena Stančáková,
- Yun Ju Sung,
- Ioanna Tachmazidou,
- Alexander Teumer,
- Gudmar Thorleifsson,
- Pim van der Harst,
- Ryan W. Walker,
- Sophie R. Wang,
- Sarah H. Wild,
- Sara M. Willems,
- Andrew Wong,
- Weihua Zhang,
- Eva Albrecht,
- Alexessander Couto Alves,
- Stephan J. L. Bakker,
- Cristina Barlassina,
- Traci M. Bartz,
- John Beilby,
- Claire Bellis,
- Richard N. Bergman,
- Sven Bergmann,
- John Blangero,
- Matthias Blüher,
- Eric Boerwinkle,
- Lori L. Bonnycastle,
- Stefan R. Bornstein,
- Marcel Bruinenberg,
- Harry Campbell,
- Yii-Der Ida Chen,
- Charleston W. K. Chiang,
- Peter S. Chines,
- Francis S Collins,
- Fracensco Cucca,
- L Adrienne Cupples,
- Francesca D’Avila,
- Eco J .C. de Geus,
- George Dedoussis,
- Maria Dimitriou,
- Angela Döring,
- Johan G. Eriksson,
- Aliki-Eleni Farmaki,
- Martin Farrall,
- Teresa Ferreira,
- Krista Fischer,
- Nita G. Forouhi,
- Nele Friedrich,
- Anette Prior Gjesing,
- Nicola Glorioso,
- Mariaelisa Graff,
- Harald Grallert,
- Niels Grarup,
- Jürgen Gräßler,
- Jagvir Grewal,
- Anders Hamsten,
- Marie Neergaard Harder,
- Catharina A. Hartman,
- Maija Hassinen,
- Nicholas Hastie,
- Andrew Tym Hattersley,
- Aki S. Havulinna,
- Markku Heliövaara,
- Hans Hillege,
- Albert Hofman,
- Oddgeir Holmen,
- Georg Homuth,
- Jouke-Jan Hottenga,
- Jennie Hui,
- Lise Lotte Husemoen,
- Pirro G. Hysi,
- Aaron Isaacs,
- Till Ittermann,
- Shapour Jalilzadeh,
- Alan L. James,
- Torben Jørgensen,
- Pekka Jousilahti,
- Antti Jula,
- Johanne Marie Justesen,
- Anne E. Justice,
- Mika Kähönen,
- Maria Karaleftheri,
- Kay Tee Khaw,
- Sirkka M. Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi,
- Leena Kinnunen,
- Paul B. Knekt,
- Heikki A. Koistinen,
- Ivana Kolcic,
- Ishminder K. Kooner,
- Seppo Koskinen,
- Peter Kovacs,
- Theodosios Kyriakou,
- Tomi Laitinen,
- Claudia Langenberg,
- Alexandra M. Lewin,
- Peter Lichtner,
- Cecilia M. Lindgren,
- Jaana Lindström,
- Allan Linneberg,
- Roberto Lorbeer,
- Mattias Lorentzon,
- Robert Luben,
- Valeriya Lyssenko,
- Satu Männistö,
- Paolo Manunta,
- Irene Mateo Leach,
- Wendy L. McArdle,
- Barbara Mcknight,
- Karen L. Mohlke,
- Evelin Mihailov,
- Lili Milani,
- Rebecca Mills,
- May E. Montasser,
- Andrew P. Morris,
- Gabriele Müller,
- Arthur W. Musk,
- Narisu Narisu,
- Ken K. Ong,
- Ben A. Oostra,
- Clive Osmond,
- Aarno Palotie,
- James S. Pankow,
- Lavinia Paternoster,
- Brenda W. Penninx,
- Irene Pichler,
- Maria G. Pilia,
- Ozren Polašek,
- Peter P. Pramstaller,
- Olli T Raitakari,
- Tuomo Rankinen,
- D. C. Rao,
- Nigel W. Rayner,
- Rasmus Ribel-Madsen,
- Treva K. Rice,
- Marcus Richards,
- Paul M. Ridker,
- Fernando Rivadeneira,
- Kathy A. Ryan,
- Serena Sanna,
- Mark A. Sarzynski,
- Salome Scholtens,
- Robert A. Scott,
- Sylvain Sebert,
- Lorraine Southam,
- Thomas Hempel Sparsø,
- Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,
- Kathleen Stirrups,
- Ronald P. Stolk,
- Konstantin Strauch,
- Heather M. Stringham,
- Morris A. Swertz,
- Amy J. Swift,
- Anke Tönjes,
- Emmanouil Tsafantakis,
- Peter J. van der Most,
- Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,
- Liesbeth Vandenput,
- Erkki Vartiainen,
- Cristina Venturini,
- Niek Verweij,
- Jorma S. Viikari,
- Veronique Vitart,
- Marie-Claude Vohl,
- Judith M. Vonk,
- Gérard Waeber,
- Elisabeth Widén,
- Gonneke Willemsen,
- Tom Wilsgaard,
- Thomas W. Winkler,
- Alan F. Wright,
- Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,
- Jing Hua Zhao,
- M. Carola Zillikens,
- Dorret I. Boomsma,
- Claude Bouchard,
- John C. Chambers,
- Daniel I. Chasman,
- Daniele Cusi,
- Ron T. Gansevoort,
- Christian Gieger,
- Torben Hansen,
- Andrew A. Hicks,
- Frank Hu,
- Kristian Hveem,
- Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin,
- Eero Kajantie,
- Jaspal S. Kooner,
- Diana Kuh,
- Johanna Kuusisto,
- Markku Laakso,
- Timo A. Lakka,
- Terho Lehtimäki,
- Andres Metspalu,
- Inger Njølstad,
- Claes Ohlsson,
- Albertine J. Oldehinkel,
- Lyle J. Palmer,
- Oluf Pedersen,
- Markus Perola,
- Annette Peters,
- Bruce M. Psaty,
- Hannu Puolijoki,
- Rainer Rauramaa,
- Igor Rudan,
- Veikko Salomaa,
- Peter E. H. Schwarz,
- Alan R. Shudiner,
- Jan H. Smit,
- Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,
- Timothy D. Spector,
- Kari Stefansson,
- Michael Stumvoll,
- Angelo Tremblay,
- Jaakko Tuomilehto,
- André G. Uitterlinden,
- Matti Uusitupa,
- Uwe Völker,
- Peter Vollenweider,
- Nicholas J. Wareham,
- Hugh Watkins,
- James F. Wilson,
- Eleftheria Zeggini,
- Goncalo R. Abecasis,
- Michael Boehnke,
- Ingrid B. Borecki,
- Panos Deloukas,
- Cornelia M. van Duijn,
- Caroline Fox,
- Leif C. Groop,
- Iris M. Heid,
- David J. Hunter,
- Robert C. Kaplan,
- Mark I. McCarthy,
- Kari E. North,
- Jeffrey R. O'Connell,
- David Schlessinger,
- Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,
- David P. Strachan,
- Timothy Frayling,
- Joel N. Hirschhorn,
- Martina Müller-Nurasyid,
- Ruth J. F. Loos
Affiliations
- Janina S. Ried
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Janina Jeff M.
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Audrey Y. Chu
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham
- Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, Internal Medicine-Nephrology, University of Michigan
- Jenny van Dongen
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University
- Jennifer E. Huffman
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Gemma Cadby
- Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, University of Western Australia
- Niina Eklund
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Joel Eriksson
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
- Tõnu Esko
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
- Mary F. Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
- Anuj Goel
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
- Mathias Gorski
- Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg
- Caroline Hayward
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Nancy L. Heard-Costa
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham Heart Study
- Anne U. Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
- Eero Jokinen
- Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki
- Stavroula Kanoni
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics
- Kati Kristiansson
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Zoltán Kutalik
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- Jari Lahti
- Folkhälsan Research Centre
- Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
- Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Massimo Mangino
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
- Carolina Medina-Gomez
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center
- Keri L. Monda
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ilja M. Nolte
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Louis Pérusse
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University
- Inga Prokopenko
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Lu Qi
- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Lynda M. Rose
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Erika Salvi
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano at San Paolo Hospital
- Megan T. Smith
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Harold Snieder
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Alena Stančáková
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital
- Yun Ju Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine
- Ioanna Tachmazidou
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics
- Alexander Teumer
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Gudmar Thorleifsson
- deCODE Genetics, Amgen inc.
- Pim van der Harst
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute Netherlands-Netherlands Heart Institute
- Ryan W. Walker
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Sophie R. Wang
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Sarah H. Wild
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Sara M. Willems
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Andrew Wong
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL
- Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Eva Albrecht
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Alexessander Couto Alves
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College
- Stephan J. L. Bakker
- Department of Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Cristina Barlassina
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano at San Paolo Hospital
- Traci M. Bartz
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- John Beilby
- Pathwest Laboratory Medicine of Western Australia
- Claire Bellis
- Genomics Research Centre, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology
- Richard N. Bergman
- Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Sven Bergmann
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- John Blangero
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Matthias Blüher
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
- Eric Boerwinkle
- Human Genetics Center and Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center
- Lori L. Bonnycastle
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
- Stefan R. Bornstein
- Department of Medicine III, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, University of Dresden
- Marcel Bruinenberg
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The LifeLines Cohort Study
- Harry Campbell
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Los Angeles BioMedical Resesarch Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
- Charleston W. K. Chiang
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California
- Peter S. Chines
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
- Francis S Collins
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
- Fracensco Cucca
- University of Sassari
- L Adrienne Cupples
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham Heart Study
- Francesca D’Avila
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano at San Paolo Hospital
- Eco J .C. de Geus
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University
- George Dedoussis
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University
- Maria Dimitriou
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics
- Angela Döring
- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Johan G. Eriksson
- Folkhälsan Research Centre
- Aliki-Eleni Farmaki
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University
- Martin Farrall
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
- Teresa Ferreira
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Krista Fischer
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
- Nita G. Forouhi
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Nele Friedrich
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Anette Prior Gjesing
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Nicola Glorioso
- Hypertension and Related Disease Centre, AOU-University of Sassari
- Mariaelisa Graff
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Harald Grallert
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Niels Grarup
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Jürgen Gräßler
- Department of Medicine III, Pathobiochemistry, Technische Universitaet
- Jagvir Grewal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Anders Hamsten
- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
- Marie Neergaard Harder
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Catharina A. Hartman
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation
- Maija Hassinen
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine
- Nicholas Hastie
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Andrew Tym Hattersley
- Institue of Biomedical & Clinical Science, University of Exeter, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK
- Aki S. Havulinna
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Markku Heliövaara
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Hans Hillege
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center
- Oddgeir Holmen
- Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Georg Homuth
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald
- Jouke-Jan Hottenga
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University
- Jennie Hui
- Pathwest Laboratory Medicine of Western Australia
- Lise Lotte Husemoen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital
- Pirro G. Hysi
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
- Aaron Isaacs
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Till Ittermann
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Shapour Jalilzadeh
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
- Alan L. James
- Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
- Torben Jørgensen
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Pekka Jousilahti
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Antti Jula
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Johanne Marie Justesen
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Anne E. Justice
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Mika Kähönen
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital
- Maria Karaleftheri
- Echinos Medical Centre
- Kay Tee Khaw
- Clinical Gerontology Unit, Box 251, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road
- Sirkka M. Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi
- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu
- Leena Kinnunen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Paul B. Knekt
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Heikki A. Koistinen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Ivana Kolcic
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split
- Ishminder K. Kooner
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
- Seppo Koskinen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Peter Kovacs
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
- Theodosios Kyriakou
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
- Tomi Laitinen
- Kuopio University Hospital
- Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Alexandra M. Lewin
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College
- Peter Lichtner
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Cecilia M. Lindgren
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
- Jaana Lindström
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital
- Roberto Lorbeer
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Mattias Lorentzon
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
- Robert Luben
- Strangeways Research Laboratory Wort's Causeway
- Valeriya Lyssenko
- Steno Diabetes Center A/S
- Satu Männistö
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Paolo Manunta
- Chair of Nephrology, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele and Genomics of Renal Diseases and Hypertension Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute
- Irene Mateo Leach
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Wendy L. McArdle
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol
- Barbara Mcknight
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Karen L. Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina
- Evelin Mihailov
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
- Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
- Rebecca Mills
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
- May E. Montasser
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Diabetes & Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Andrew P. Morris
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Gabriele Müller
- Center for Evidence Based Healthcare, University of Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus
- Arthur W. Musk
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
- Narisu Narisu
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
- Ken K. Ong
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Ben A. Oostra
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Clive Osmond
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital
- Aarno Palotie
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- James S. Pankow
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
- Lavinia Paternoster
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol
- Brenda W. Penninx
- Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center
- Irene Pichler
- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
- Maria G. Pilia
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR
- Ozren Polašek
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Peter P. Pramstaller
- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
- Olli T Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital
- Tuomo Rankinen
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- D. C. Rao
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine
- Nigel W. Rayner
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Rasmus Ribel-Madsen
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Treva K. Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine
- Marcus Richards
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital
- Paul M. Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Fernando Rivadeneira
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center
- Kathy A. Ryan
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Diabetes & Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Serena Sanna
- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR
- Mark A. Sarzynski
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- Salome Scholtens
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Robert A. Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Sylvain Sebert
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
- Lorraine Southam
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Thomas Hempel Sparsø
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
- deCODE Genetics, Amgen inc.
- Kathleen Stirrups
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics
- Ronald P. Stolk
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Heather M. Stringham
- Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
- Morris A. Swertz
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Amy J. Swift
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
- Anke Tönjes
- Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig
- Emmanouil Tsafantakis
- Anogia Medical Centre
- Peter J. van der Most
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk
- Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Liesbeth Vandenput
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
- Erkki Vartiainen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Cristina Venturini
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
- Niek Verweij
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Jorma S. Viikari
- Department of Medicine, University of Turku
- Veronique Vitart
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Marie-Claude Vohl
- Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Laval University
- Judith M. Vonk
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Gérard Waeber
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and University of Lausanne
- Elisabeth Widén
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Gonneke Willemsen
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University
- Tom Wilsgaard
- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø
- Thomas W. Winkler
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg
- Alan F. Wright
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Diabetes & Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Jing Hua Zhao
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- M. Carola Zillikens
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center
- Dorret I. Boomsma
- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University
- Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Daniel I. Chasman
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Daniele Cusi
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano at San Paolo Hospital
- Ron T. Gansevoort
- Department of Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Christian Gieger
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Torben Hansen
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Andrew A. Hicks
- Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
- Frank Hu
- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Kristian Hveem
- Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu
- Eero Kajantie
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Jaspal S. Kooner
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
- Diana Kuh
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL
- Johanna Kuusisto
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital
- Markku Laakso
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital
- Timo A. Lakka
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine
- Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine
- Andres Metspalu
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
- Inger Njølstad
- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø
- Claes Ohlsson
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
- Albertine J. Oldehinkel
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation
- Lyle J. Palmer
- School of Public Health, University of Adelaide
- Oluf Pedersen
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Markus Perola
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Bruce M. Psaty
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington
- Hannu Puolijoki
- South Ostrobothnia Central Hospital
- Rainer Rauramaa
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine
- Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Veikko Salomaa
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- Peter E. H. Schwarz
- Department of Medicine III, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, University of Dresden
- Alan R. Shudiner
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Diabetes & Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Jan H. Smit
- Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center
- Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen
- Timothy D. Spector
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
- Kari Stefansson
- deCODE Genetics, Amgen inc.
- Michael Stumvoll
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
- Angelo Tremblay
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University
- Jaakko Tuomilehto
- Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare
- André G. Uitterlinden
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center
- Matti Uusitupa
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland
- Uwe Völker
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald
- Peter Vollenweider
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and University of Lausanne
- Nicholas J. Wareham
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Hugh Watkins
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
- James F. Wilson
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Eleftheria Zeggini
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Human Genetics
- Goncalo R. Abecasis
- Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
- Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
- Ingrid B. Borecki
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
- Panos Deloukas
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
- Cornelia M. van Duijn
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Caroline Fox
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Framingham Heart Study
- Leif C. Groop
- Lund University Diabetes Centre and Department of Clinical Science, Diabetes & Endocrinology Unit, Lund University
- Iris M. Heid
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg
- David J. Hunter
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
- Robert C. Kaplan
- Department of Epidemiology and Popualtion Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Mark I. McCarthy
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Kari E. North
- Department of Epidemiology, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jeffrey R. O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Diabetes & Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- David Schlessinger
- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
- Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
- deCODE Genetics, Amgen inc.
- David P. Strachan
- Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London
- Timothy Frayling
- Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter
- Joel N. Hirschhorn
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
- Martina Müller-Nurasyid
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Ruth J. F. Loos
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13357
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Past genome-wide associate studies have identified hundreds of genetic loci that influence body size and shape when examined one trait at a time. Here, Jeff and colleagues develop an aggregate score of various body traits, and use meta-analysis to find new loci linked to body shape.
