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 and Ruth J. F. Loos ()
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Stefan Gustafsson: Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University
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Jianbo Na: The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Diana L. Cousminer: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
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Mario Falchi: King's College London
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Anke W. Enneman: Erasmus Medical Center
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Melissa E. Garcia: Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging
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Aki S. Havulinna: National Institute for Health and Welfare
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Dena Hernandez: Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Hans Hillege: University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
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Tiina Laatikainen: National Institute for Health and Welfare
Jari Lahti: Folkhälsan Research Centre
Irene Mateo Leach: University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
Christine G. Lee: Oregon Health and Science University
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Tian Liu: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Youfang Liu: Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Nina Smolej Narančić: Institute for Anthropological Research
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Peter Lichtner: Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health
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Charles C. White: Boston University School of Public Health
Michael Boehnke: Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
Yvonne Boettcher: University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
Richard S. Cooper: Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago
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Mika Kivimaki: UCL
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Luigi Ferrucci: Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging
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Tamara B. Harris: Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging
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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
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Mika Kähönen: Tampere University Hospital
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Paul B. Knekt: National Institute for Health and Welfare
Seppo Koskinen: National Institute for Health and Welfare
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Terho Lehtimäki: University of Tampere School of Medicine
Lars Lind: Uppsala University
Yongmei Liu: 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: Laval University
Olli T. Raitakari: Turku University Hospital
Tuomo Rankinen: Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
D. C. Rao: Washington University School of Medicine
Treva K. Rice: Washington University School of Medicine
Fernando Rivadeneira: 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
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Michael Stumvoll: University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases
Anke Tönjes: University of Leipzig
Bradford Towne: Lifespan Health Research Center, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
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André G. Uitterlinden: Erasmus Medical Center
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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: 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: King's College London
Elisabeth Widén: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
Cristen J. Willer: University of Michigan
Jian Yang: Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
Erik Ingelsson: Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University
Karen L. Mohlke: University of North Carolina
Joel N. Hirschhorn: Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
John Andrew Pospisilik: Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
M. Carola Zillikens: 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
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Abstract: Abstract To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716 individuals. Twelve loci reached genome-wide significance (P

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