Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits

  • Anne E. Justice,
  • Thomas W. Winkler,
  • Mary F. Feitosa,
  • Misa Graff,
  • Virginia A. Fisher,
  • Kristin Young,
  • Llilda Barata,
  • Xuan Deng,
  • Jacek Czajkowski,
  • David Hadley,
  • Julius S. Ngwa,
  • Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,
  • Audrey Y. Chu,
  • Nancy L. Heard-Costa,
  • Elise Lim,
  • Jeremiah Perez,
  • John D. Eicher,
  • Zoltán Kutalik,
  • Luting Xue,
  • Anubha Mahajan,
  • Frida Renström,
  • Joseph Wu,
  • Qibin Qi,
  • Shafqat Ahmad,
  • Tamuno Alfred,
  • Najaf Amin,
  • Lawrence F. Bielak,
  • Amelie Bonnefond,
  • Jennifer Bragg,
  • Gemma Cadby,
  • Martina Chittani,
  • Scott Coggeshall,
  • Tanguy Corre,
  • Nese Direk,
  • Joel Eriksson,
  • Krista Fischer,
  • Mathias Gorski,
  • Marie Neergaard Harder,
  • Momoko Horikoshi,
  • Tao Huang,
  • Jennifer E. Huffman,
  • Anne U. Jackson,
  • Johanne Marie Justesen,
  • Stavroula Kanoni,
  • Leena Kinnunen,
  • Marcus E. Kleber,
  • Pirjo Komulainen,
  • Meena Kumari,
  • Unhee Lim,
  • Jian'an Luan,
  • Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,
  • Massimo Mangino,
  • Ani Manichaikul,
  • Jonathan Marten,
  • Rita P. S. Middelberg,
  • Martina Müller-Nurasyid,
  • Pau Navarro,
  • Louis Pérusse,
  • Natalia Pervjakova,
  • Cinzia Sarti,
  • Albert Vernon Smith,
  • Jennifer A. Smith,
  • Alena Stančáková,
  • Rona J. Strawbridge,
  • Heather M. Stringham,
  • Yun Ju Sung,
  • Toshiko Tanaka,
  • Alexander Teumer,
  • Stella Trompet,
  • Sander W. van der Laan,
  • Peter J. van der Most,
  • Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,
  • Sailaja L. Vedantam,
  • Niek Verweij,
  • Jacqueline M. Vink,
  • Veronique Vitart,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Loic Yengo,
  • Weihua Zhang,
  • Jing Hua Zhao,
  • Martina E. Zimmermann,
  • Niha Zubair,
  • Gonçalo R. Abecasis,
  • Linda S. Adair,
  • Saima Afaq,
  • Uzma Afzal,
  • Stephan J. L. Bakker,
  • Traci M. Bartz,
  • John Beilby,
  • Richard N. Bergman,
  • Sven Bergmann,
  • Reiner Biffar,
  • John Blangero,
  • Eric Boerwinkle,
  • Lori L. Bonnycastle,
  • Erwin Bottinger,
  • Daniele Braga,
  • Brendan M. Buckley,
  • Steve Buyske,
  • Harry Campbell,
  • John C. Chambers,
  • Francis S. Collins,
  • Joanne E. Curran,
  • Gert J. de Borst,
  • Anton J. M. de Craen,
  • Eco J. C. de Geus,
  • George Dedoussis,
  • Graciela E. Delgado,
  • Hester M. den Ruijter,
  • Gudny Eiriksdottir,
  • Anna L. Eriksson,
  • Tõnu Esko,
  • Jessica D. Faul,
  • Ian Ford,
  • Terrence Forrester,
  • Karl Gertow,
  • Bruna Gigante,
  • Nicola Glorioso,
  • Jian Gong,
  • Harald Grallert,
  • Tanja B. Grammer,
  • Niels Grarup,
  • Saskia Haitjema,
  • Göran Hallmans,
  • Anders Hamsten,
  • Torben Hansen,
  • Tamara B. Harris,
  • Catharina A. Hartman,
  • Maija Hassinen,
  • Nicholas D. Hastie,
  • Andrew C. Heath,
  • Dena Hernandez,
  • Lucia Hindorff,
  • Lynne J. Hocking,
  • Mette Hollensted,
  • Oddgeir L. Holmen,
  • Georg Homuth,
  • Jouke Jan Hottenga,
  • Jie Huang,
  • Joseph Hung,
  • Nina Hutri-Kähönen,
  • Erik Ingelsson,
  • Alan L. James,
  • John-Olov Jansson,
  • Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin,
  • Min A. Jhun,
  • Marit E. Jørgensen,
  • Markus Juonala,
  • Mika Kähönen,
  • Magnus Karlsson,
  • Heikki A. Koistinen,
  • Ivana Kolcic,
  • Genovefa Kolovou,
  • Charles Kooperberg,
  • Bernhard K. Krämer,
  • Johanna Kuusisto,
  • Kirsti Kvaløy,
  • Timo A. Lakka,
  • Claudia Langenberg,
  • Lenore J. Launer,
  • Karin Leander,
  • Nanette R. Lee,
  • Lars Lind,
  • Cecilia M. Lindgren,
  • Allan Linneberg,
  • Stephane Lobbens,
  • Marie Loh,
  • Mattias Lorentzon,
  • Robert Luben,
  • Gitta Lubke,
  • Anja Ludolph-Donislawski,
  • Sara Lupoli,
  • Pamela A. F. Madden,
  • Reija Männikkö,
  • Pedro Marques-Vidal,
  • Nicholas G. Martin,
  • Colin A. McKenzie,
  • Barbara McKnight,
  • Dan Mellström,
  • Cristina Menni,
  • Grant W. Montgomery,
  • AW (Bill) Musk,
  • Narisu Narisu,
  • Matthias Nauck,
  • Ilja M. Nolte,
  • Albertine J. Oldehinkel,
  • Matthias Olden,
  • Ken K. Ong,
  • Sandosh Padmanabhan,
  • Patricia A. Peyser,
  • Charlotta Pisinger,
  • David J. Porteous,
  • Olli T. Raitakari,
  • Tuomo Rankinen,
  • D. C. Rao,
  • Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik,
  • Rajesh Rawal,
  • Treva Rice,
  • Paul M. Ridker,
  • Lynda M. Rose,
  • Stephanie A. Bien,
  • Igor Rudan,
  • Serena Sanna,
  • Mark A. Sarzynski,
  • Naveed Sattar,
  • Kai Savonen,
  • David Schlessinger,
  • Salome Scholtens,
  • Claudia Schurmann,
  • Robert A. Scott,
  • Bengt Sennblad,
  • Marten A. Siemelink,
  • Günther Silbernagel,
  • P Eline Slagboom,
  • Harold Snieder,
  • Jan A. Staessen,
  • David J. Stott,
  • Morris A. Swertz,
  • Amy J. Swift,
  • Kent D. Taylor,
  • Bamidele O. Tayo,
  • Barbara Thorand,
  • Dorothee Thuillier,
  • Jaakko Tuomilehto,
  • Andre G. Uitterlinden,
  • Liesbeth Vandenput,
  • Marie-Claude Vohl,
  • Henry Völzke,
  • Judith M. Vonk,
  • Gérard Waeber,
  • Melanie Waldenberger,
  • R. G. J. Westendorp,
  • Sarah Wild,
  • Gonneke Willemsen,
  • Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel,
  • Andrew Wong,
  • Alan F. Wright,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • M Carola Zillikens,
  • Damiano Baldassarre,
  • Beverley Balkau,
  • Stefania Bandinelli,
  • Carsten A. Böger,
  • Dorret I. Boomsma,
  • Claude Bouchard,
  • Marcel Bruinenberg,
  • Daniel I. Chasman,
  • Yii-DerIda Chen,
  • Peter S. Chines,
  • Richard S. Cooper,
  • Francesco Cucca,
  • Daniele Cusi,
  • Ulf de Faire,
  • Luigi Ferrucci,
  • Paul W. Franks,
  • Philippe Froguel,
  • Penny Gordon-Larsen,
  • Hans- Jörgen Grabe,
  • Vilmundur Gudnason,
  • Christopher A. Haiman,
  • Caroline Hayward,
  • Kristian Hveem,
  • Andrew D. Johnson,
  • J Wouter Jukema,
  • Sharon L. R. Kardia,
  • Mika Kivimaki,
  • Jaspal S. Kooner,
  • Diana Kuh,
  • Markku Laakso,
  • Terho Lehtimäki,
  • Loic Le Marchand,
  • Winfried März,
  • Mark I. McCarthy,
  • Andres Metspalu,
  • Andrew P. Morris,
  • Claes Ohlsson,
  • Lyle J. Palmer,
  • Gerard Pasterkamp,
  • Oluf Pedersen,
  • Annette Peters,
  • Ulrike Peters,
  • Ozren Polasek,
  • Bruce M. Psaty,
  • Lu Qi,
  • Rainer Rauramaa,
  • Blair H. Smith,
  • Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,
  • Konstantin Strauch,
  • Henning Tiemeier,
  • Elena Tremoli,
  • Pim van der Harst,
  • Henrik Vestergaard,
  • Peter Vollenweider,
  • Nicholas J. Wareham,
  • David R. Weir,
  • John B. Whitfield,
  • James F. Wilson,
  • Jessica Tyrrell,
  • Timothy M. Frayling,
  • Inês Barroso,
  • Michael Boehnke,
  • Panagiotis Deloukas,
  • Caroline S. Fox,
  • Joel N. Hirschhorn,
  • David J. Hunter,
  • Tim D. Spector,
  • David P. Strachan,
  • Cornelia M. van Duijn,
  • Iris M. Heid,
  • Karen L. Mohlke,
  • Jonathan Marchini,
  • Ruth J. F. Loos,
  • Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,
  • Ching-Ti Liu,
  • Ingrid B. Borecki,
  • Kari E. North,
  • L Adrienne Cupples

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14977
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a key tool to discover genetic markers for complex traits; however, environmental factors that interact with genes are rarely considered. Here, the authors conduct a GWAS of obesity traits, and find that smoking may alter genetic susceptibilities.