Meta-analysis identifies common variants associated with body mass index in east Asians

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-311

  Wen, Wanqing ^a,c   Cho, Yoon Shin ^d,e   Zheng, Wei ^a,c   Dorajoo, Rajkumar ^f,g   Kato, Norihiro ^h   Qi, Lu ⁱ   Chen, Chien Hsiun ^j,k   Delahanty, Ryan J ^a,c   Okada, Yukinori ^l,m   Tabara, Yasuharu ⁿ   Gu, Dongfeng ^o   Zhu, Dingliang ^p,r   Haiman, Christopher A ^s   Mo, Zengnan ^t   Gao, Yu Tang ^u   Saw, Seang Mei ^v   Go, Min Jin ^d   Takeuchi, Fumihiko ^h   Chang, Li Ching ^j   Kokubo, Yoshihiro ^w   Liang, Jun ^x   Hao, Mei ^y   Le Marchand, Loic ^z   Zhang, Yi ^p,q   Hu, Yanling ^aa   Wong, Tien Yin ^ab,ad   Long, Jirong ^a,c   Han, Bok Ghee ^d   Kubo, Michiaki ^l   Yamamoto, Ken ^ae   Su, Mei Hsin ^j   Miki, Tetsuro ⁿ   Henderson, Brian E ^s   Song, Huaidong ^p   Tan, Aihua ^t   He, Jiang ^y   Ng, Daniel P K ^v   Cai, Qiuyin ^a,c   Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko ^l   Tsai, Fuu Jen ^k   Iwai, Naoharu ^w   Chen, Gary K ^s   Shi, Jiajun ^a,c   Xu, Jianfeng ^af   Sim, Xueling ^v   Xiang, Yong Bing ^u   Maeda, Shiro ^l   Ong, Rick T H ^f,v   Li, Chun ^a   Nakamura, Yusuke ^ag   Aung, Tin ^ab,ac   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^l   Liu, Jian Jun ^f   Lu, Wei ^ah   Yokota, Mitsuhiro ^i,ai   Seielstad, Mark ^f,aj   Fann, Cathy S J ^j,p   Wu, Jer Yuarn ^j,k   Lee, Jong Young ^b,d   Hu, Frank B ^i,l   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^ak   Tai, E Shyong ^v   Shu, Xiao Ou ^a,c   more..

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^e Hallym University   (South Korea)

^f GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^k CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^l RIKEN   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁿ EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^o FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^p SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^q Sino French Research Center for Life Science and Genomics   (China)

^r Shanghai Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology   (China)

^s UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^u SHANGHAI CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

^v NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^w NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^x XUZHOU CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^y TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^aa GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^ab SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^ac NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^ae KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^af WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^ah SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^ai AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ak Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; FAR EAST; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84862777036     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.1087     Document Type: Article

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