Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
- A. Locke, Bratati Kahali, E. Speliotes
- BiologyNature
- 11 February 2015
A genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility.
Biological, Clinical, and Population Relevance of 95 Loci for Blood Lipids
- Tanya M. Teslovich, K. Musunuru, S. Kathiresan
- BiologyNature
- 1 August 2010
The results identify several novel loci associated with plasma lipids that are also associated with CAD and provide the foundation to develop a broader biological understanding of lipoprotein metabolism and to identify new therapeutic opportunities for the prevention of CAD.
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
- E. Speliotes, C. Willer, R. Loos
- Biology, Medicine
- 2010
18 new loci associated with body mass index are identified, one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B, and genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
Discovery and Refinement of Loci Associated with Lipid Levels
- C. Willer, Ellen M. Schmidt, G. Abecasis
- BiologyNature Genetics
- 6 October 2013
It is found that loci associated with blood lipid levels are often associated with cardiovascular and metabolic traits, including coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, blood pressure, waist-hip ratio and body mass index.
Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height
- A. Wood, T. Esko, T. Frayling
- BiologyNature Genetics
- 8 September 2014
The results indicate a genetic architecture for human height that is characterized by a very large but finite number of causal variants, including mTOR, osteoglycin and binding of hyaluronic acid.
Efficient Bayesian mixed model analysis increases association power in large cohorts
- Po-Ru Loh, George Tucker, A. Price
- EngineeringNature Genetics
- 9 August 2014
BOLT-LMM is presented, which requires only a small number of O(MN) iterations and increases power by modeling more realistic, non-infinitesimal genetic architectures via a Bayesian mixture prior on marker effect sizes.
Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores.
- B. Vilhjálmsson, Jian Yang, A. Price
- PsychologyAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
- 1 October 2015
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
- H. Lango Allen, K. Estrada, J. Hirschhorn
- BiologyNature
- 10 August 2010
It is shown that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait, and indicates that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways.
New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution
- D. Shungin, T. Winkler, K. Mohlke
- BiologyNature
- 16 December 2014
A genome-wide association meta-analyses of traits related to waist and hip circumferences in up to 224,459 individuals implicated adipogenesis, angiogenesis, transcriptional regulation and insulin resistance as processes affecting fat distribution, providing insight into potential pathophysiological mechanisms.
Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations
- A. Köttgen, E. Albrecht, C. Gieger
- BiologyNature Genetics
- 1 February 2013
New candidate genes for serum urate concentration highlight the importance of metabolic control of urate production and excretion, which may have implications for the treatment and prevention of gout.
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