Nature Communications (Feb 2016)
New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk
- Yingchang Lu,
- Felix R. Day,
- Stefan Gustafsson,
- Martin L. Buchkovich,
- Jianbo Na,
- Veronique Bataille,
- Diana L. Cousminer,
- Zari Dastani,
- Alexander W. Drong,
- Tõnu Esko,
- David M. Evans,
- Mario Falchi,
- Mary F. Feitosa,
- Teresa Ferreira,
- Åsa K. Hedman,
- Robin Haring,
- Pirro G. Hysi,
- Mark M. Iles,
- Anne E. Justice,
- Stavroula Kanoni,
- Vasiliki Lagou,
- Rui Li,
- Xin Li,
- Adam Locke,
- Chen Lu,
- Reedik Mägi,
- John R. B. Perry,
- Tune H. Pers,
- Qibin Qi,
- Marianna Sanna,
- Ellen M. Schmidt,
- William R. Scott,
- Dmitry Shungin,
- Alexander Teumer,
- Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,
- Ryan W. Walker,
- Harm-Jan Westra,
- Mingfeng Zhang,
- Weihua Zhang,
- Jing Hua Zhao,
- Zhihong Zhu,
- Uzma Afzal,
- Tarunveer Singh Ahluwalia,
- Stephan J. L. Bakker,
- Claire Bellis,
- Amélie Bonnefond,
- Katja Borodulin,
- Aron S. Buchman,
- Tommy Cederholm,
- Audrey C. Choh,
- Hyung Jin Choi,
- Joanne E. Curran,
- Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot,
- Philip L. De Jager,
- Rosalie A. M. Dhonukshe-Rutten,
- Anke W. Enneman,
- Elodie Eury,
- Daniel S. Evans,
- Tom Forsen,
- Nele Friedrich,
- Frédéric Fumeron,
- Melissa E. Garcia,
- Simone Gärtner,
- Bok-Ghee Han,
- Aki S. Havulinna,
- Caroline Hayward,
- Dena Hernandez,
- Hans Hillege,
- Till Ittermann,
- Jack W. Kent,
- Ivana Kolcic,
- Tiina Laatikainen,
- Jari Lahti,
- Irene Mateo Leach,
- Christine G. Lee,
- Jong-Young Lee,
- Tian Liu,
- Youfang Liu,
- Stéphane Lobbens,
- Marie Loh,
- Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,
- Carolina Medina-Gomez,
- Karl Michaëlsson,
- Mike A. Nalls,
- Carrie M. Nielson,
- Laticia Oozageer,
- Laura Pascoe,
- Lavinia Paternoster,
- Ozren Polašek,
- Samuli Ripatti,
- Mark A. Sarzynski,
- Chan Soo Shin,
- Nina Smolej Narančić,
- Dominik Spira,
- Priya Srikanth,
- Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen,
- Yun Ju Sung,
- Karin M. A. Swart,
- Leena Taittonen,
- Toshiko Tanaka,
- Emmi Tikkanen,
- Nathalie van der Velde,
- Natasja M. van Schoor,
- Niek Verweij,
- Alan F. Wright,
- Lei Yu,
- Joseph M. Zmuda,
- Niina Eklund,
- Terrence Forrester,
- Niels Grarup,
- Anne U. Jackson,
- Kati Kristiansson,
- Teemu Kuulasmaa,
- Johanna Kuusisto,
- Peter Lichtner,
- Jian'an Luan,
- Anubha Mahajan,
- Satu Männistö,
- Cameron D. Palmer,
- Janina S. Ried,
- Robert A. Scott,
- Alena Stancáková,
- Peter J. Wagner,
- Ayse Demirkan,
- Angela Döring,
- Vilmundur Gudnason,
- Douglas P. Kiel,
- Brigitte Kühnel,
- Massimo Mangino,
- Barbara Mcknight,
- Cristina Menni,
- Jeffrey R. O'Connell,
- Ben A. Oostra,
- Alan R. Shuldiner,
- Kijoung Song,
- Liesbeth Vandenput,
- Cornelia M. van Duijn,
- Peter Vollenweider,
- Charles C. White,
- Michael Boehnke,
- Yvonne Boettcher,
- Richard S. Cooper,
- Nita G. Forouhi,
- Christian Gieger,
- Harald Grallert,
- Aroon Hingorani,
- Torben Jørgensen,
- Pekka Jousilahti,
- Mika Kivimaki,
- Meena Kumari,
- Markku Laakso,
- Claudia Langenberg,
- Allan Linneberg,
- Amy Luke,
- Colin A. Mckenzie,
- Aarno Palotie,
- Oluf Pedersen,
- Annette Peters,
- Konstantin Strauch,
- Bamidele O. Tayo,
- Nicholas J. Wareham,
- David A. Bennett,
- Lars Bertram,
- John Blangero,
- Matthias Blüher,
- Claude Bouchard,
- Harry Campbell,
- Nam H. Cho,
- Steven R. Cummings,
- Stefan A. Czerwinski,
- Ilja Demuth,
- Rahel Eckardt,
- Johan G. Eriksson,
- Luigi Ferrucci,
- Oscar H. Franco,
- Philippe Froguel,
- Ron T. Gansevoort,
- Torben Hansen,
- Tamara B. Harris,
- Nicholas Hastie,
- Markku Heliövaara,
- Albert Hofman,
- Joanne M. Jordan,
- Antti Jula,
- Mika Kähönen,
- Eero Kajantie,
- Paul B. Knekt,
- Seppo Koskinen,
- Peter Kovacs,
- Terho Lehtimäki,
- Lars Lind,
- Yongmei Liu,
- Eric S. Orwoll,
- Clive Osmond,
- Markus Perola,
- Louis Pérusse,
- Olli T. Raitakari,
- Tuomo Rankinen,
- D. C. Rao,
- Treva K. Rice,
- Fernando Rivadeneira,
- Igor Rudan,
- Veikko Salomaa,
- Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,
- Michael Stumvoll,
- Anke Tönjes,
- Bradford Towne,
- Gregory J. Tranah,
- Angelo Tremblay,
- André G. Uitterlinden,
- Pim van der Harst,
- Erkki Vartiainen,
- Jorma S. Viikari,
- Veronique Vitart,
- Marie-Claude Vohl,
- Henry Völzke,
- Mark Walker,
- Henri Wallaschofski,
- Sarah Wild,
- James F. Wilson,
- Loïc Yengo,
- D. Timothy Bishop,
- Ingrid B. Borecki,
- John C. Chambers,
- L. Adrienne Cupples,
- Abbas Dehghan,
- Panos Deloukas,
- Ghazaleh Fatemifar,
- Caroline Fox,
- Terrence S. Furey,
- Lude Franke,
- Jiali Han,
- David J. Hunter,
- Juha Karjalainen,
- Fredrik Karpe,
- Robert C. Kaplan,
- Jaspal S. Kooner,
- Mark I. McCarthy,
- Joanne M. Murabito,
- Andrew P. Morris,
- Julia A. N. Bishop,
- Kari E. North,
- Claes Ohlsson,
- Ken K. Ong,
- Inga Prokopenko,
- J. Brent Richards,
- Eric E. Schadt,
- Tim D. Spector,
- Elisabeth Widén,
- Cristen J. Willer,
- Jian Yang,
- Erik Ingelsson,
- Karen L. Mohlke,
- Joel N. Hirschhorn,
- John Andrew Pospisilik,
- M. Carola Zillikens,
- Cecilia Lindgren,
- Tuomas Oskari Kilpeläinen,
- Ruth J. F. Loos
Affiliations
- Yingchang Lu
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Felix R. Day
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Stefan Gustafsson
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University
- Martin L. Buchkovich
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina
- Jianbo Na
- Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Veronique Bataille
- West Herts NHS Trust
- Diana L. Cousminer
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Zari Dastani
- Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
- Alexander W. Drong
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Tõnu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, Univeristy of Tartu
- David M. Evans
- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute
- Mario Falchi
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology King's College London, King's College London
- Mary F. Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
- Teresa Ferreira
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Åsa K. Hedman
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University
- Robin Haring
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Pirro G. Hysi
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology King's College London, King's College London
- Mark M. Iles
- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Cancer Research UK Leeds Centre, University of Leeds
- Anne E. Justice
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Stavroula Kanoni
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
- Vasiliki Lagou
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Rui Li
- Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
- Xin Li
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
- Adam Locke
- Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
- Chen Lu
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health
- Reedik Mägi
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- John R. B. Perry
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Tune H. Pers
- Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital
- Qibin Qi
- Department of Epidemiology and Popualtion Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Marianna Sanna
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology King's College London, King's College London
- Ellen M. Schmidt
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics University of Michigan, University of Michigan
- William R. Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Dmitry Shungin
- Department of Clinical Science, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University Hosptial
- Alexander Teumer
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
- Ryan W. Walker
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Harm-Jan Westra
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mingfeng Zhang
- Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Jing Hua Zhao
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Zhihong Zhu
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
- Uzma Afzal
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Tarunveer Singh Ahluwalia
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Stephan J. L. Bakker
- University Medical Center Groningen Department of Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Claire Bellis
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
- Amélie Bonnefond
- CNRS UMR 8199
- Katja Borodulin
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Aron S. Buchman
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center
- Tommy Cederholm
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Uppsala University
- Audrey C. Choh
- Lifespan Health Research Center, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
- Hyung Jin Choi
- Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine
- Joanne E. Curran
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot
- Department of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University
- Philip L. De Jager
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Rosalie A. M. Dhonukshe-Rutten
- Department of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University
- Anke W. Enneman
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center
- Elodie Eury
- CNRS UMR 8199
- Daniel S. Evans
- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
- Tom Forsen
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki
- Nele Friedrich
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Frédéric Fumeron
- INSERM, UMR_S 1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers
- Melissa E. Garcia
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging
- Simone Gärtner
- Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald
- Bok-Ghee Han
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong Health Technology Administration Complex
- Aki S. Havulinna
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Caroline Hayward
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Dena Hernandez
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
- Hans Hillege
- University Medical Center Groningen Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Till Ittermann
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Jack W. Kent
- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
- Ivana Kolcic
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split
- Tiina Laatikainen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Jari Lahti
- Folkhälsan Research Centre
- Irene Mateo Leach
- University Medical Center Groningen Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Christine G. Lee
- Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University
- Jong-Young Lee
- Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Osong Health Technology Administration Complex
- Tian Liu
- Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
- Youfang Liu
- Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Stéphane Lobbens
- CNRS UMR 8199
- Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine
- Carolina Medina-Gomez
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center
- Karl Michaëlsson
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Orthopedics, Uppsala University
- Mike A. Nalls
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
- Carrie M. Nielson
- School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University
- Laticia Oozageer
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
- Laura Pascoe
- Institute of Cell & Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University
- Lavinia Paternoster
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol
- Ozren Polašek
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split
- Samuli Ripatti
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Mark A. Sarzynski
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- Chan Soo Shin
- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine
- Nina Smolej Narančić
- Institute for Anthropological Research
- Dominik Spira
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics; Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Priya Srikanth
- School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University
- Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics; Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Yun Ju Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine
- Karin M. A. Swart
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center
- Leena Taittonen
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu
- Toshiko Tanaka
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging
- Emmi Tikkanen
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Nathalie van der Velde
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center
- Natasja M. van Schoor
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center
- Niek Verweij
- University Medical Center Groningen Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Alan F. Wright
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Lei Yu
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center
- Joseph M. Zmuda
- Department of Epidemiology; University of Pittsburgh
- Niina Eklund
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Terrence Forrester
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies
- Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Anne U. Jackson
- Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
- Kati Kristiansson
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Teemu Kuulasmaa
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland
- Johanna Kuusisto
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland
- Peter Lichtner
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Satu Männistö
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Cameron D. Palmer
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
- Janina S. Ried
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Robert A. Scott
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Alena Stancáková
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital
- Peter J. Wagner
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Ayse Demirkan
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Angela Döring
- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association
- Douglas P. Kiel
- Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School
- Brigitte Kühnel
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Massimo Mangino
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology King's College London, King's College London
- Barbara Mcknight
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington
- Cristina Menni
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology King's College London, King's College London
- Jeffrey R. O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Ben A. Oostra
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Alan R. Shuldiner
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Kijoung Song
- Genetics, Projects Clinical Platforms and Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline
- Liesbeth Vandenput
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
- Cornelia M. van Duijn
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA)
- Peter Vollenweider
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and University of Lausanne
- Charles C. White
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health
- Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
- Yvonne Boettcher
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
- Richard S. Cooper
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago
- Nita G. Forouhi
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Christian Gieger
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Harald Grallert
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Aroon Hingorani
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London
- Torben Jørgensen
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Pekka Jousilahti
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Mika Kivimaki
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
- Meena Kumari
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
- Markku Laakso
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland
- Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Allan Linneberg
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital
- Amy Luke
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago
- Colin A. Mckenzie
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies
- Aarno Palotie
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Oluf Pedersen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
- Bamidele O. Tayo
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago
- Nicholas J. Wareham
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- David A. Bennett
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center
- Lars Bertram
- School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
- John Blangero
- South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Matthias Blüher
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
- Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- Harry Campbell
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place
- Nam H. Cho
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine
- Steven R. Cummings
- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
- Stefan A. Czerwinski
- Lifespan Health Research Center, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
- Ilja Demuth
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics; Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Rahel Eckardt
- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics; Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Johan G. Eriksson
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Luigi Ferrucci
- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging
- Oscar H. Franco
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA)
- Philippe Froguel
- CNRS UMR 8199
- Ron T. Gansevoort
- University Medical Center Groningen Department of Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Torben Hansen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Tamara B. Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging
- Nicholas Hastie
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Markku Heliövaara
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Albert Hofman
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA)
- Joanne M. Jordan
- Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Antti Jula
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Mika Kähönen
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital
- Eero Kajantie
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Paul B. Knekt
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Seppo Koskinen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Peter Kovacs
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
- Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine
- Lars Lind
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University
- Yongmei Liu
- Division of Public Health Sciences Wake Forest School of Medicine, Center for Human Genetics, Wake Forest School of Medicine
- Eric S. Orwoll
- Bone & Mineral Unit, Oregon Health & Science University
- Clive Osmond
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital
- Markus Perola
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Louis Pérusse
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University
- 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 Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
- Treva K. Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine
- Fernando Rivadeneira
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center
- Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place
- Veikko Salomaa
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol
- Michael Stumvoll
- University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
- Anke Tönjes
- Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig
- Bradford Towne
- Lifespan Health Research Center, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
- Gregory J. Tranah
- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
- Angelo Tremblay
- Department of Kinesiology, Laval University
- André G. Uitterlinden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center
- Pim van der Harst
- University Medical Center Groningen Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Erkki Vartiainen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare
- 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
- Henry Völzke
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Mark Walker
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Henri Wallaschofski
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald
- Sarah Wild
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- James F. Wilson
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Loïc Yengo
- CNRS UMR 8199
- D. Timothy Bishop
- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Cancer Research UK Leeds Centre, University of Leeds
- Ingrid B. Borecki
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
- John C. Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- L. Adrienne Cupples
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health
- Abbas Dehghan
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center
- Panos Deloukas
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
- Ghazaleh Fatemifar
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol
- Caroline Fox
- Harvard Medical School
- Terrence S. Furey
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina
- Lude Franke
- University Medical Center Groningen Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
- Jiali Han
- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
- David J. Hunter
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
- Juha Karjalainen
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen
- Fredrik Karpe
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital
- Robert C. Kaplan
- Department of Epidemiology and Popualtion Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Jaspal S. Kooner
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
- Mark I. McCarthy
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Joanne M. Murabito
- Department of Medicine Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine
- Andrew P. Morris
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Julia A. N. Bishop
- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Cancer Research UK Leeds Centre, University of Leeds
- Kari E. North
- Carolina Center for Genome Sciences and Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Claes Ohlsson
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
- Ken K. Ong
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Inga Prokopenko
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- J. Brent Richards
- Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
- Eric E. Schadt
- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Tim D. Spector
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology King's College London, King's College London
- Elisabeth Widén
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
- Cristen J. Willer
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics University of Michigan, University of Michigan
- Jian Yang
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
- Erik Ingelsson
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University
- Karen L. Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina
- Joel N. Hirschhorn
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
- John Andrew Pospisilik
- Department of Epigenetics, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
- M. Carola Zillikens
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center
- Cecilia Lindgren
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Tuomas Oskari Kilpeläinen
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- 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/ncomms10495
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 15
Abstract
A genome-wide association meta-analysis study here shows novel genetic loci to be associated to body fat percentage, and describes cross-phenotype association that further demonstrate a close relationship between adiposity and cardiovascular disease risk.
