Genome-wide association scan shows genetic variants in the FTO gene are associated with obesity-related traits

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1200-1210

  Scuteri, Angelo ^a,b   Sanna, Serena ^c,d   Chen, Wei Min ^c   Uda, Manuela ^d   Albai, Giuseppe ^d   Strait, James ^b   Najjar, Samer ^b   Nagaraja, Ramaiah ^b   Orrú, Marco ^d,e   Usala, Gianluca ^d   Dei, Mariano ^d   Lai, Sandra ^d   Maschio, Andrea ^d   Busonero, Fabio ^d   Mulas, Antonella ^d   Ehret, Georg B ^f   Fink, Ashley A ^f   Weder, Alan B ^g   Cooper, Richard S ^h   Galan, Pilar ^i,j   Chakravarti, Aravinda ^f   Schlessinger, David ^b   Cao, Antonio ^d   Lakatta, Edward ^b   Abecasis, Gonçalo R ^c   more..

^a Istituto Per la Patologia Endocrina e Metabolica   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e Divisione di Medicina   (Italy)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ Inst Sci Tech Nutr de l'Aliment   (France)

^j INSERM   (France)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHROMOSOME 16; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FOLLOW UP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34547625955     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030115     Document Type: Article

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