Discovery and Mediation Analysis of Cross-Phenotype Associations Between Asthma and Body Mass Index in 12q13.2.

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Twin studies suggest that shared genetics contributes to the comorbidity of asthma and obesity, but candidate-gene studies provide limited evidence of pleiotropy. We conducted genome-wide association analyses of asthma and body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)2)) among 305,945 White British subjects recruited into the UK Biobank in 2006-2010. We searched for overlapping signals and conducted mediation...

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