Recent Progress in the Understanding of Obesity: Contributions of Genome-Wide Association Studies.

doi:10.1007/s13679-015-0173-8

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Recent Progress in the Understanding of Obesity: Contributions of Genome-Wide Association Studies.

Current obesity reports - 1 Dec 2015

Andersen Mette Korre, Sandholt Camilla Helene

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Since 2007, discovery of genetic variants associated with general obesity and fat distribution has advanced tremendously through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Currently, the number of robustly associated loci is 190. Even though these loci explain <3 % of the variance, they have provided us a still emerging picture of genomic localization, frequency and effect size spectra, and hints of functional...

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