Obesity-susceptibility loci have a limited influence on birth weight: A meta-analysis of up to 28,219 individuals

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 851-860

  Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O ^a   Den Hoed, Marcel ^a   Ong, Ken K ^a   Grøntved, Anders ^b   Brage, Soren ^a   Jameson, Karen ^c   Cooper, Cyrus ^c   Khaw, Kay Tee ^d   Ekelund, Ulf ^a,e   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a   Loos, Ruth J F ^a   Freathy, Rachel M ^f   Mook Kanamori, Dennis O ^f   Sovio, Ulla ^f   Prokopenko, Inga ^f   Timpson, Nicholas J ^f   Berry, Diane J ^f   Warrington, Nicole M ^f   Widen, Elisabeth ^f   Hottenga, Jouke Jan ^f   Kaakinen, Marika ^f   Lange, Leslie A ^f   Bradfield, Jonathan P ^f   Kerkhof, Marjan ^f   Marsh, Julie A ^f   Mägi, Reedik ^f   Chen, Chih Mei ^f   Lyon, Helen N ^f   Kirin, Mirna ^f   Adair, Linda S ^f   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^f   Bennett, Amanda J ^f   Borja, Judith B ^f   Bouatia Naji, Nabila ^f   Charoen, Pimphen ^f   Coin, Lachlan J M ^f   Cousminer, Diana L ^f   De Geus, Eco J C ^f   Deloukas, Panos ^f   Elliott, Paul ^f   Evans, David M ^f   Froguel, Philippe ^f   Glaser, Beate ^f   Groves, Christopher J ^f   Hartikainen, Anna Liisa ^f   Hassanali, Neelam ^f   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^f   Hofman, Albert ^f   Holly, Jeff M P ^f   Hyppönen, Elina ^f   Kanoni, Stavroula ^f   Knight, Bridget A ^f   Laitinen, Jaana ^f   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^f   McArdle, Wendy L ^f   O'Reilly, Paul F ^f   Pennell, Craig E ^f   Postma, Dirkje S ^f   Pouta, Anneli ^f   Ramasamy, Adaikalavan ^f   Rayner, Nigel W ^f   Ring, Susan M ^f   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^f   Shields, Beverley M ^f   Strachan, David P ^f   Surakka, Ida ^f   Taanila, Anja ^f   Tiesler, Carla ^f   Uitterlinden, Andre G ^f   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^f   Wijga, Alet H ^f   Willemsen, Gonneke ^f   Zhang, Haitao ^f   Zhao, Jianhua ^f   Wilson, James F ^f   Steegers, Eric A P ^f   Hattersley, Andrew T ^f   Eriksson, Johan G ^f   Peltonen, Leena ^f   Mohlke, Karen L ^f   Grant, Struan F A ^f   Hakonarson, Hakon ^f   Koppelman, Gerard H ^f   Dedoussis, George V ^f   Heinrich, Joachim ^f   Gillman, Matthew W ^f   Palmer, Lyle J ^f   Frayling, Timothy M ^f   Boomsma, Dorret I ^f   Smith, George Davey ^f   Power, Chris ^f   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^f   Jarvelin, Marjo Riitta ^f   McCarthy, Mark I ^f   more..

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BCDIN3D GENE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; ETV5 GENE; FEMALE; FTO GENE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GNPDA2 GENE; HUMAN; KCTD15 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MC4R GENE; META ANALYSIS; MTCH2 GENE; NEGR1 GENE; OBESITY; SEC16B GENE; SH2B1 GENE; TMEM18 GENE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OBESITY; PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953230452     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.110.000828     Document Type: Article

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