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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

2015-01-01

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Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct 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. This analysis identifies 97 BMI-associated loci (P 20% of BMI variation. Pathway analyses provide strong support f...

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Literature Corpus work: 83eb6924-1660-5b62-ad3d-2dc6a146d102
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-122917

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