Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

Cristen J. Willer , Elizabeth K. Speliotes , Ruth J. F. Loos , Cristen J. Willer , Elizabeth K. Speliotes , Ruth J. F. Loos , Shengxu Li , Cecilia M. Lindgren , Iris M. Heid , Sonja I. Berndt , Amanda L. Elliott , Anne Jackson , Claudia Lamina , Guillaume Lettre , Noha Lim , Helen N. Lyon , Steven A. McCarroll , Konstantinos Papadakis , Lu Qi , Joshua C. Randall , Rosa Maria Roccasecca , Serena Sanna , Paul Scheet , Michael N. Weedon , Eleanor Wheeler , Jing Hua Zhao , Leonie C. Jacobs , Inga Prokopenko , Nicole Soranzo , Toshiko Tanaka , Nicholas J. Timpson , Peter Almgren , Amanda J. Bennett , Richard N. Bergman , Sheila Bingham , Lori L. Bonnycastle , Matthew A. Brown , Noel L. P. Burtt , Peter S. Chines , Lachlan Coin , Francis S. Collins , John Connell , Cyrus Cooper , George Davey Smith , Elaine Dennison , Parimal Deodhar , Paul Elliott , Michael R. Erdos , Karol Estrada , David M. Evans , Lauren Gianniny , Christian Gieger , Christopher Gillson , Candace Guiducci , Rachel Hackett , David Hadley , Alistair S. Hall , Aki S. Havulinna , Johannes Hebebrand , Albert Hofman , Bo Isomaa , Kevin B. Jacobs , Toby Johnson , Pekka Jousilahti , Z Jovanović , Kay‐Tee Khaw , Peter Kraft , Mikko Kuokkanen , Johanna Kuusisto , Jaana Laitinen , Edward G. Lakatta , Jian’an Luan , Robert Luben , Massimo Mangino , Wendy L. McArdle , Thomas Meitinger , Antonella Mulas , Patricia B. Munroe , Narisu Narisu , Andy Ness , Kate Northstone , Stephen O’Rahilly , Carolin Purmann , Matthew G. Rees , Martin Ridderstråle , Susan M. Ring , Fernando Rivadeneira , A Ruokonen , Manjinder S. Sandhu , Jouko Saramies , Laura J. Scott , Angelo Scuteri , Kaisa Silander , Matthew Sims , Kijoung Song , Jonathan Stephens , Suzanne Stevens , Heather M. Stringham , Y. C. Loraine Tung , Timo T. Valle , Cornelia M. van Duijn , Karani S. Vimaleswaran , Péter Vollenweider
2008 Nature Genetics 1,695 citations

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BiologyGenome-wide association studyObesityBody mass indexGeneticsGeneGenetic associationGenomeCandidate geneGenotypeSingle-nucleotide polymorphismEndocrinology

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2008
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41
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25-34
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Cristen J. Willer, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Ruth J. F. Loos et al. (2008). Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation. Nature Genetics , 41 (1) , 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.287

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