FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

Jian Yang, Ruth J. F. Loos, Joseph E. Powell, Sarah E. Medland, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Daniel I. Chasman, Lynda M. Rose, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Reedik Mägi, Lindsay Waite, Albert Vernon Smith, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Keri L. Monda, David Hadley, Anubha Mahajan, Guo Li, Karen Kapur, Veronique Vitart, Jennifer E. Huffman, Sophie R. Wang, Cameron Palmer, Tõnu Esko, Krista Fischer, Jing Hua Zhao, Ayşe Demirkan, Aaron Isaacs, Mary F. Feitosa, Jian’an Luan, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Charles White, Anne U. Jackson, Michael Preuss, Andreas Ziegler, Joel Eriksson, Zoltán Kutalik, Francesca Frau, Ilja M. Nolte, Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Kevin B. Jacobs, Niek Verweij, Anuj Goel, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Karol Estrada, Jennifer Lynn Bragg-Gresham, Serena Sanna, Carlo Sidore, Jonathan Tyrer, Alexander Teumer, Inga Prokopenko, Massimo Mangino, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Themistocles L. Assimes, Alan R. Shuldiner, Jennie Hui, John P. Beilby, Wendy L. McArdle, Per Hall, Talin Haritunians, Lina Zgaga, Ivana Kolcic, Ozren Polasek, Tatijana Zemunik, Ben A. Oostra, M. Juhani Junttila, Henrik Grönberg, Stefan Schreiber, Annette Peters, Andrew A. Hicks, Jonathan Stephens, Nicola S. Foad, Jaana Laitinen, Anneli Pouta, Marika Kaakinen, Gonneke Willemsen, Jacqueline M. Vink, Sarah H. Wild, Gerjan Navis, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Georg Homuth, Ulrich John, Carlos Iribarren, Tamara Harris, Lenore Launer, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Eric Boerwinkle, Gemma Cadby, Lyle J. Palmer, Alan L. James, Arthur W. Musk, Erik Ingelsson, Bruce M. Psaty, Jacques S. Beckmann, Gerard Waeber, Peter Vollenweider, Caroline Hayward, Alan F. Wright, Igor Rudan, Leif C. Groop, Andres Metspalu, Kay-Tee Khaw, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Ingrid B. Borecki, Michael A. Province, Nicholas J. Wareham, Jean-Claude Tardif, Heikki V. Huikuri, L. Adrienne Cupples, Larry D. Atwood, Caroline S. Fox, Michael Boehnke, Francis S. Collins, Karen L. Mohlke, Jeanette Erdmann, Heribert Schunkert, Christian Hengstenberg, Klaus Stark, Mattias Lorentzon, Claes Ohlsson, Daniele Cusi, Jan A. Staessen, Melanie M. Van der Klauw, Peter P. Pramstaller, Sekar Kathiresan, Jennifer D. Jolley, Samuli Ripatti, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Eco J. C. de Geus, Dorret I. Boomsma, Brenda Penninx, James F. Wilson, Harry Campbell, Stephen J. Chanock, Pim van der Harst, Anders Hamsten, Hugh Watkins, Albert Hofman, Jacqueline C. Witteman, M. Carola Zillikens, André G. Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, M. Carola Zillikens, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Sita H. Vermeulen, Goncalo R. Abecasis, David Schlessinger, Sabine Schipf, Michael Stumvoll, Anke Tönjes, Tim D. Spector, Kari E. North, Guillaume Lettre, Mark I. McCarthy, Sonja I. Berndt, Andrew C. Heath, Pamela A. F. Madden, Dale R. Nyholt, Grant W. Montgomery, Nicholas G. Martin, Barbara McKnight, David P. Strachan, William G. Hill, Harold Snieder, Paul M. Ridker, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson, Timothy M. Frayling, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Michael E. Goddard and Peter M. Visscher ()
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Nature, 2012, vol. 490, issue 7419, 267-272

Abstract: A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of phenotypic variation for height and body mass index in human populations using 170,000 samples shows that one single nucleotide polymorphism at the FTO locus, which is associated with obesity, is also associated with phenotypic variation.

Date: 2012
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