Article
Genome-wide association study of body mass index in 23 000 individuals with and without asthma.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Apr 2013
Melén E, Granell R, Kogevinas M, Strachan D, Gonzalez J R, Wjst M, Jarvis D, Ege M, Braun-Fahrländer C, Genuneit J, Horak E, Bouzigon E, Demenais F, Kauffmann F, Siroux V, Michel S, von Berg A, Heinzmann A, Kabesch M, Probst-Hensch N M, Curjuric I, Imboden M, Rochat T, Henderson J, Sterne J A C, McArdle W L, Hui J, James A L, William Musk A, Palmer L J, Becker A, Kozyrskyj A L, Chan-Young M, Park J E, Leung A, Daley D, Freidin M B, Deev I A, Ogorodova L M, Puzyrev V P, Celedón J C, Brehm J M, Cloutier M M, Canino G, Acosta-Pérez E, Soto-Quiros M, Avila L, Bergström A, Magnusson J, Söderhäll C, Kull I, Scholtens S, Marike Boezen H, Koppelman G H, Wijga A H, Marenholz I, Esparza-Gordillo J, Lau S, Lee Y-A, Standl M, Tiesler C M T, Flexeder C, Heinrich J, Myers R A, Ober C, Nicolae D L, Farrall M, Kumar A, Moffatt M F, Cookson W O C M, Lasky-Su J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Both asthma and obesity are complex disorders that are influenced by environmental and genetic factors. Shared genetic factors between asthma and obesity have been proposed to partly explain epidemiological findings of co-morbidity between these conditions. OBJECTIVE: To identify genetic variants that are associated with body mass index (BMI) in asthmatic children and adults, and to evaluate if there...
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